GARCIA VS. AGUILAR (FAMILY)

Key holdings

Practitioner summary

This is an order dismissing a pro se appeal for failure to comply with the court's filing directives. The court issued an initial notice on April 17, 2026, requiring appellant to file and serve a transcript request form or certificate of no transcript request within 14 days and a docketing statement within 21 days. After appellant failed to comply, the court entered an order on May 18, 2026, setting a June 1, 2026 deadline and cautioning "that failure to timely comply could result in the dismissal of this appeal." Appellant never filed the transcript request form or certificate of no transcript request or the docketing statement. Finding that "it appears appellant has abandoned this appeal," the court ordered the appeal dismissed. The order was entered by Justices Stiglich, Cadish, and Lee. The order cites no statutes, rules, or cases, and does not address the merits of the underlying district court proceeding.

In plain language

This is a short procedural order, not a decision about the merits of any dispute. Julia Guadalupe Garcia filed an appeal on her own, without a lawyer, from a family court ruling in Clark County. When someone appeals, the Nevada Supreme Court requires certain paperwork to get the case moving - here, a transcript request form (or a certificate stating no transcript is needed) and a docketing statement, which is a form summarizing the case for the court. On April 17, 2026, the court sent Garcia a notice telling her to file those documents within set deadlines (14 days for the transcript form, 21 days for the docketing statement). She did not file them. On May 18, 2026, the court issued a second order directing her to file the documents by June 1, 2026, and warned that failing to comply could result in dismissal of the appeal. The documents were never filed. Concluding that "it appears appellant has abandoned this appeal," the court dismissed it. Nothing in the order discusses what the underlying family court case was about.