Rule text
(a) Whenever any party wishes to contest: (1) the legal sufficiency of the allegations of any petition, or of any one or more counts thereof, to state a claim upon which relief can be granted; or (2) the legal sufficiency of any prayer for relief in any such petition; or (3) the legal sufficiency of any such petition, or any count thereof, because of the absence of any necessary party; or (4) the joining of two or more causes of action which cannot properly be united in one petition whether the same be stated in one or more counts, that party may do so by filing a motion to strike the contested petition or part thereof.
(b) A motion to strike on the ground of the nonjoinder of a necessary party must give the name and residence of the missing party or such information as the moving party has as to the identity and residence of the missing party and must state the missing party's interest in the cause of action.
Notes
(Adopted June 24, 2002, to take effect Jan. 1, 2003.)