Rule 18 – Joinder of Claims and Remedies.

May 14, 2021 | Domestic Relations, Family Law, Rhode Island

(a) Joinder of Claims. The plaintiff in the complaint or in a reply setting forth a counterclaim and the defendant in an answer setting forth a counterclaim may join either as independent or as alternative claims as many claims within the jurisdiction of the Court, either legal or equitable or both, as the plaintiff may have against an opposing party. There may be a like joinder of claims when there are multiple parties if the requirements of Rules 19 and 20 are satisfied. There may be a like joinder of cross-claims if the requirements of Rule 13 are satisfied.
(b) Joinder of Remedies; Fraudulent Conveyances. Whenever a claim is one heretofore cognizable only after another claim has been prosecuted to a conclusion, the two (2) claims may be joined in a single action; but the court shall grant relief in that action only in accordance with the relative substantive rights of the parties. In particular, a plaintiff may state a claim for money and a claim to have set aside a conveyance fraudulent as to the plaintiff without first having obtained a judgment establishing the claim for money.

R.I. Fam. Ct. R. Dom. Rel. P. 18