BREWER VS. BREWER (FAMILY)

Key holdings

Practitioner summary

The court disposed of the appeal on appellant's unopposed motion for voluntary dismissal under NRAP 42. The order is a clerk's order containing no substantive analysis, no statement of facts, no standard of review, and no doctrinal framework. No precedent is announced or applied; no underlying district court ruling is reviewed. The order identifies the Hon. Vincent Ochoa as district judge and Ara H. Shirinian as settlement judge, with counsel from Sgro & Roger and Cole Family Law Firm.

In plain language

This is a one-page clerk's order ending an appeal before the Nevada Supreme Court ever reached the merits. Florela Brewer had appealed a ruling in a family-law case involving Thomas Brewer. Before the court decided anything substantive, Florela asked the court to dismiss her own appeal. Thomas did not oppose that request. The court granted the unopposed request and closed the case. Because the appeal was voluntarily withdrawn, the order contains no discussion of the underlying family-law dispute, no factual findings, and no legal analysis. The order simply notes that "cause appearing," the motion is granted under the appellate rule that allows a party to voluntarily dismiss an appeal.