Tenth Judicial District Court, Nebraska Document Format Requirements

CRITICAL

Affidavits offered by pro se parties must comply with Rule 10-4(A).

Affidavits offered by pro se parties must comport with Rule 10-4(A).

CRITICAL

Hand-written pleadings submitted by pro se litigants must be in ink and may not contain materially defacing erasures or interlineations.

A. Pro se litigants may submit hand-written pleadings. Such pleadings shall be in ink and shall not contain erasures or interlineations materially defacing the pleading.

CRITICAL

Format

PAPER

Exhibits or affidavits exceeding 20 pages in aggregate must be submitted to the Court in hard copy.

Exhibits or affidavits that exceed an aggregate total of twenty (20) pages shall be submitted to the Court in hard copy.

CRITICAL

Motions must be in writing unless law or court order provides otherwise.

Except as otherwise provided by law or order of the court, all motions shall be in writing and filed within 10 days of oral notification of a party's intent to file the same.

CRITICAL

Affidavits offered at a temporary hearing must be typed and comply with Rule 10-4(B).

Affidavits offered at the temporary hearing must be typed and comport with Rule 10-4(B).

CRITICAL

A voluntary appearance must be notarized.

A voluntary appearance must be notarized.

CRITICAL

Parties responding to Temporary Child Information Affidavits must use the same format.

Parties responding to such affidavits shall ensure that their affidavits conform to the same format.

CRITICAL

Margins

top 1.5 in

All pleadings must have a 1½-inch top margin and text that is 1½- or double-spaced.

B. All pleadings shall have a 1½-inch margin at the top of each page, and the text of the pleading shall be 1½ or double-spaced.

CRITICAL

Property statements must use the form attached to the rules as Appendix #1.

The only form accepted shall be the form attached to these rules. See Appendix #1.

CRITICAL

Parties responding to the temporary-allowance affidavits must follow the same format.

Parties responding to such affidavits shall follow the same format.

WARNINGCivil cases

Copies substituted for pleadings from another case must be permanent and acceptable to the reporter for use in an appellate record.

Such copies must be of a permanent type and of a quality acceptable to the reporter for use in any record on appeal.

WARNINGCivil cases

Interrogatories and requests for admission must provide answer space, and answers must be typed after each question; the responding party may instead retype the questions and answer in the appropriate places if space is insufficient or the party prefers.

Interrogatories or requests for admission shall have sufficient space below the interrogatory or request for the responding party to answer. Answers to interrogatories or requests for admission shall be typed with the answers following the question. If there is insufficient space, or if preferred by the responding party, the responding party may simply retype all of the questions and provide the answers in the appropriate places within the new document.