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The Nebraska Court of Appeals has issued an important decision that clarifies the right to set aside default judgments, regardless of how old the judgment is, when the defendant had no actual service of the lawsuit papers. Well, the issue is now clear, except when it is not clear, which is to say I’m confused…
Somewhere between 30 to 50 thousand civil lawsuits are filed in Nebraska each year. Unfortunately, very few people actually bother to respond to the lawsuit and therefore suffer a Default Judgment being entered against them. I would estimate that over 90% of the debt collection lawsuits result in uncontested default judgments.
Here is what you…