CHUMAK VS. VON BUCHWALD (FAMILY)
Posture Appellant Julia Jane Chumak appealed in a family-law matter against respondent Jose Andres Von Buchwald. Before the Nevada Supreme Court decided the appeal, the parties stipulated to its dismissal, and the court entered a clerk's order dismissing the appeal pursuant to that stipulation. The opinion does not address the substance of the underlying dispute or the ruling appealed from.
Key holdings
Practitioner summary
This is a clerk's order dismissing an appeal from the Family Division of the Eighth Judicial District Court (Hon. Michele Mercer, District Judge). The dismissal was entered "[p]ursuant to the stipulation of the parties, and cause appearing," under NRAP 42. Each party bears its own costs and attorney fees. The order contains no discussion of the merits, no standard of review, and announces no rule of law beyond effectuating the parties' stipulated voluntary dismissal.
In plain language
This is a very short procedural order, not a decision on the merits of any dispute. The two parties in this family-court case agreed between themselves (a "stipulation") that the appeal should end. Because both sides agreed, the Nevada Supreme Court dismissed the appeal, citing NRAP 42, the appellate rule governing voluntary dismissals. The court also ordered that "The parties shall bear theit own costs and attorney fees" - meaning each side pays its own legal expenses rather than one side paying the other's. The order says nothing about what the underlying family-law dispute involved or who would have prevailed; those questions were never decided by the appellate court.
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