MINNESOTA COURT RULES

GENERAL RULES OF PRACTICE

Rule 208.Hearings in Default Cases-Filing Documents

Initial applications, where no issue has been joined, shall be heard by the court at any special term, or they may be heard by an examiner, to whom the matter has been specially referred. In counties where the examiner checks the proceedings in advance of the hearings, all documents necessary to complete the files shall be filed; and all documentary evidence proposed to be used by the applicant or petitioner shall be delivered to the examiner at least 7 days before the hearing, together with the proposed order for judgment and decree.

(Amended effective July 1, 2015; amended effective January 1, 2020.)