§ 25-2803.Parties; representation.

Small Claims Court is open to a wide range of parties — individuals, partnerships, limited liability companies, corporations, unions, associations, and other kinds of organizations or entities, plus a personal representative of a decedent’s estate, a guardian, or a conservator acting on someone else’s behalf.

The defining feature of the court is that no party may be represented by an attorney, except as sections 25-2804 and 25-2805 allow — namely, for a motion for new trial or to set aside a default judgment, and on appeal. Instead, each kind of party appears through a representative suited to its structure: an individual represents himself or herself; a partnership appears through a partner or one of its employees; a limited liability company through a member, manager, or employee; a union through a union member or employee; a corporation through one of its employees; an association through one of its members or an employee; and any other kind of organization or entity through one of its members or employees.

Only someone who was a party to the transaction with the defendant may file and prosecute a claim — no party may file a claim that was assigned from someone else. And there is a frequency limit: no party may file more than two claims within any calendar week, or more than ten claims in any calendar year, in Small Claims Court.