2011 Montana Code Annotated
TITLE 25. CIVIL PROCEDURE
CHAPTER 20. RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE

• 1. Scope of Rules.
• 2. One form of Action.
• 3. Commencing an Action.
• 4. Persons Subject to Jurisdiction; Process; Service.
• 4.1. Limited Representation Permitted -- Process.
• 4.2. Notice of Limited Appearance and Withdrawal as Attorney.
• 5. Serving and Filing Pleadings and other Papers.
• 5.1. Constitutional Challenge to a Statute -- Notice and Intervention.
• 5.2. Privacy Protection for Filings Made With the Court.
• 6. Computing and Extending Time; Time for Motion Papers.
• 7. Pleadings Allowed; Form of Motions and Other Papers.
• 7.1. Disclosure Statement.
• 8. General Rules of Pleading.
• 9. Pleading Special Matters.
• 10. Form of Pleadings.
• 11. Signing Pleadings, Motions, and other Papers; Representations to the Court; Sanctions.
• 12. Defenses and Objections: When and How Presented; Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings; Consolidating Motions; Waiving Defenses; Pretrial Hearing.
• 13. Counterclaim and Crossclaim.
• 14. Third-Party Practice.
• 15. Amended and Supplemental Pleadings.
• 16. Pretrial Conferences; Scheduling; Management.
• 17. Plaintiff and Defendant; Capacity; Public Officers.
• 18. Joinder of Claims.
• 19. Required Joinder of Parties.
• 20. Permissive Joinder of Parties.
• 21. Misjoinder and Non-Joinder of Parties.
• 22. Interpleader.
• 23. Class Actions.
• 23.1. Derivative Actions.
• 23.2. Actions Relating to Unincorporated Associations.
• 24. Intervention.
• 25. Substitution of Parties.
• 26. General Provisions Governing Discovery.
• 27. Depositions to Perpetuate Testimony.
• 28. Persons Before Whom Depositions May Be Taken.
• 29. Stipulation Regarding Discovery Procedure.
• 30. Depositions by Oral Examination.
• 31. Depositions by Written Questions.
• 32. Using Depositions in Court Proceedings.
• 33. Interrogatories to Parties.
• 34. Producing Documents, Electronically-Stored Information, and Tangible Things, or Entering onto Land, for Inspection and Other Purposes.
• 35. Physical and Mental Examination.
• 36. Requests for Admissions.
• 37. Failure to Make Discovery; Sanctions.
• 38. Right to a Jury Trial; Demand.
• 39. Trial by Jury or by the Court.
• 40. Scheduling Cases for Trial.
• 41. Dismissal of Actions.
• 42. Consolidation; Separate Trials.
• 43. Taking Testimony.
• 44. Proving an Official Record.
• 44.1. Determining Foreign Law.
• 45. Subpoena.
• 46. Objecting to a Ruling or Order.
• 47. Jurors.
• 48. Juries -- Verdict.
• 49. Special Verdicts and Interrogatories.
• 50. Judgment as a Matter of Law in a Jury Trial; Related Motion for a New Trial; Conditional Ruling.
• 51. Instructions to the Jury; Objections; Preserving a Claim of Error.
• 52. Findings and Conclusions by the Court; Judgment on Partial Findings.
• 53. Masters.
• 54. Judgments; Costs.
• 55. Default; Default Judgment.
• 56. Summary Judgment.
• 57. Declaratory Judgments.
• 58. Entering Judgment.
• 59. New Trial; Altering or Amending a Judgment.
• 60. Relief from Judgment or Order.
• 61. Harmless Error.
• 62. Stay of Proceedings to Enforce a Judgment.
• 62.1. Indicative Rule on a Motion for Relief that is Barred by a Pending Appeal.
• 63. Judge's Inability to Proceed.
• 64. Seizing a Person or Property.
• 65. Injunctions.
• 66. Receivers.
• 67. Deposit into Court.
• 68. Offer of Judgment.
• 69. Execution.
• 70. Enforcing a Judgment for a Specific Act.
• 71. Enforcing Relief For or Against a Nonparty.
• 72. Appeal from A District Court to the Supreme Court.
• There are no rules 73 through 76. X. District Courts and Clerks: Conducting Business; Issuing Orders 77. Conducting Business; Clerk's Authority; Notice of an Order or Judgment.
• There are no rules 78 through 80. 80. Stenographic Transcript as Evidence.
• 81. Applicability in General.
• 82. Jurisdiction and Venue Unaffected.
• 83. Rules by District Courts.
• 84. Forms.
• 85. Title.
• 86. Effective Date -- Statutes Superseded