§ 25-520.01.Service by publication; mailing of published notice; requirements; waiver; when mailing not required.

Publication alone does not always satisfy Nebraska’s notice requirements. Section 25-520.01 adds a mailing backstop for a broad category of actions and proceedings. Except as the section itself limits, a party instituting or maintaining an action with a published notice has to send, within five days after the first publication, a copy of that published notice (or, where applicable, the alternative notice described in subsection (4)) by United States mail to every party who appears to have a direct legal interest in the case and whose name and address are known.

Proof follows the same documentary pattern as publication itself: the party or the party’s attorney has to file an affidavit of mailing within ten days after mailing, and that affidavit has to state that the party and attorney, after diligent investigation, could not identify or do not know the address of any other interested party beyond those already mailed notice.

The mailing requirement has real limits. It does not apply to anyone who has already waived notice in writing, entered a voluntary appearance, or been personally served with summons or notice in the proceeding — those parties do not need the extra mailed copy on top of what they already received or waived. And for a special assessment lien imposed by a city or village, the local government can send a more targeted notice instead of the published notice itself — one stating the amount owed, the due date, and when the board of equalization meets for an appeal.