Article 3: Parties · Last amended 2002 · Last verified July 22, 2026
Laws 1887, c. 100, § 4, p. 656; R.S.1913, § 7611; C.S.1922, § 8554; C.S.1929, § 20-330; R.S.1943, § 25-330; Laws 2002, LB 876, § 10.
Section 25-330 sets the pleading mechanics for an intervention allowed under section 25-328. An intervenor cannot just announce an interest in the case; the intervention has to be made by a complaint that sets forth the facts on which the intervention rests. That complaint, and every pleading connected to it, follows the same rules that govern other pleadings under Chapter 25 — the intervenor does not get a separate, looser standard just because the claim arrives partway through someone else’s lawsuit.
The statute adds one procedural detail tied to older court-term practice: if the intervention complaint is filed during term, the court sets the time in which answers to it must be filed. That gives the court direct control over the pace of the intervention proceeding, rather than leaving the response deadline to a default rule.
Together with sections 25-328 and 25-329, this section completes the intervention framework: section 25-328 establishes who may intervene and when, section 25-330 sets how the intervention has to be pleaded, and section 25-329 governs when the claim is decided and who bears the costs if it fails.
By filing a complaint that sets forth the facts on which the intervention rests, rather than through an informal request or motion alone.
No. Section 25-330 states that all pleadings in the intervention are governed by the same rules as other pleadings provided for in Chapter 25.
If the complaint is filed during term, the court directs the time in which answers to it must be filed.
The facts on which the intervention rests, stated in the complaint that begins the intervention.
No. Section 25-328 establishes who has the right to intervene and the timing limits for doing so; section 25-330 addresses how that intervention must be pleaded once it is made.
It proceeds like any other pleading in the case under Chapter 25, and section 25-329 governs when the resulting claim is decided and who pays the costs if it does not succeed.