K.S.A. 60-218.Joinder of claims; contingent claims

Subsection (a) states the joinder rule in a single sentence: a party asserting a claim, counterclaim, crossclaim, or third-party claim may join as many independent or alternative claims against an opposing party as it has. There's no requirement that the claims relate to each other or arise from the same transaction -- a party can bundle unrelated claims against the same opponent into one action.

Subsection (b) adds that a party can join two claims even when one depends on how the other turns out, though the court's relief still has to track the parties' actual substantive rights -- joinder doesn't create rights that don't exist. The rule gives two concrete examples of this kind of contingent joinder. A plaintiff can state a claim for money owed alongside a claim to set aside a conveyance that's fraudulent as to that plaintiff, without first having to win a judgment on the money claim. And a plaintiff can include, in the original petition, an amended petition, an answer, or a reply, a claim to set aside a release, settlement, or discharge of the original claim on the ground that it was fraudulent or wrongfully procured.