§ 25-410.Transfer of actions; clerk of transferor court; duties; clerk of transferee court; duties; certain support orders; how treated.

Not every venue problem is about where a case was filed incorrectly. Sometimes a case is filed in a proper county, but circumstances — where the witnesses live, where the evidence is, or simple fairness — make another county a better place to try it. Section 25-410 gives a district court the power to transfer such a case, called the transferor court, to the district court of another county, called the transferee court, for the convenience of the parties and witnesses or in the interest of justice. The transfer can happen before or after judgment, and it comes with no additional filing fees.

The mechanics run through the clerks of both courts. Once a transfer order names the specific transferee court, the clerk of the transferor court has ten days to certify the case file and costs and file that certification with the transferee court, along with certified copies of any judgment and payment records tied to it. When the transferee court’s clerk receives those documents, any judgment in the case gets entered on that court’s own judgment index — and once entered there, it becomes a lien on the debtor’s property in any county where it is filed. Transferring the case does not change what the parties owe or are owed under any judgment already entered, regardless of where the transfer stands procedurally.

The section also handles a specific wrinkle: cases involving support orders tracked by the state’s Title IV-D child support division. When such a case transfers, the transferor court’s order must notify the division so it can update its payment records, with support payments shifting to the transferee court starting the first day of the month after the transfer order, and earlier payments treated as satisfying the transferor court’s judgment.