Pleading On Joinder

A joinder is a set of forms that include a summons. After preparation, they are signed by either party of the case, and then filed at the court. Once the documents are filed they must be properly served on the plan administrator (account holder).

Joinder. Joinder is a process by which parties and claims are added to an ongoing lawsuit. The typical litigation scenario begins with a plaintiff who enters into a lawsuit by suing a defendant. The plaintiff has a claim against the defendant for which he or she seeks some type of relief.

A Motion for Joinder is a request made to the court by which a party is asking that a person or entity be brought before the Family Law Court and made to comply with its orders.Joiners are most common where one or both of the parties have a pension or other employment benefit plan.

A joinder is intended to be a simple document whose sole effect is to add an additional person or entity as a party to the original agreement and bind them to the terms of that agreement in their entirety.

In law, a joinder is the joining of two or more legal issues together. Procedurally, a joinder allows multiple issues to be heard in one hearing or trial and is done when the issues or parties involved overlap sufficiently to make the process more efficient or more fair.

Joinder is a legal process that names a third-party claimant to a divorce case and notifies the retirement plan that a former spouse has a right to a portion of an employee's benefits.

A Petition for Joinder is used when a non-party wants to participate in a Family Law case. Most commonly, a step-parent or a grandparent will use a Petition for Joinder to join the child custody case between the children's parents, but other interested persons may use this same process.

1 : conjunction sense 2. 2a(1) : a joining of parties as plaintiffs or defendants in a suit. (2) : a joining of causes of action or defense. b : acceptance of an issue tendered.