Rule 10.  Form of Pleadings

(a) Caption; Names of Par­ties. Every pleading must have a caption with the court’s name, a title, a file number, and a Rule 7 (a) designation. The title of the complaint must name all the parties; the title of other plead­ings, after naming the first party on each side, may refer generally to other parties.

(b) Paragraphs; Separate State­ments. A party must state its claims or defenses in numbered paragraphs, each limited as far as prac­ti­cable to a single set of circumstances. A later pleading may refer by number to a paragraph in an earlier pleading. If doing so would pro­mote clarity, each claim founded on a sep­a­rate transaction or oc­cur­rence — and each defense other than a denial — must be stated in a separate count or defense.

(c) Adop­tion by Ref­er­ence; Exhibits. A statement in a plead­ing may be adopted by reference elsewhere in the same plead­ing or in any oth­er pleading or motion. A copy of a written in­stru­ment that is an ex­hib­it to a pleading is a part of the pleading for all purposes.

(Amended Apr. 30, 2007, eff. Dec. 1, 2007.)