No suit for divorce shall be heard or tried until sixty days after perfection of service of process, at which time the suit may be heard or tried and a decree may be entered.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 42-363
Waiting period
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Neujahr v. Neujahr (1986)
Most recently applied in Benda v. Sole (August 2025)
Laws 1972, LB 820, § 17; Laws 1974, LB 1015, § 3; Laws 1989, LB 23, § 1.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Nebraska Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Nebraska statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.