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IN RE: PETITION BY BABYAK (FAMILY)

25-41914 · 91346 · Nevada (SCOTN/COA) · September 25, 2025

Disposition:Appeal dismissed.Other Family Law

Posture Appellant Evgenia Kalinina filed an appeal in a matter captioned as a petition by John-Paul Babyak. On September 23, 2025, a notice of withdrawal of appeal was filed. The Nevada Supreme Court entered a clerk's order addressing that withdrawal.

Key holdings

- An appeal is dismissed upon the appellant's filing of a notice of withdrawal pursuant to NRAP 42.

Practitioner summary

The court dismissed the appeal pursuant to NRAP 42 based on the appellant's notice of withdrawal of appeal filed September 23, 2025. The order is a clerk's order and contains no substantive analysis, holding, or discussion of the underlying matter.

In plain language

This is a one-paragraph administrative order from the Nevada Supreme Court. The party who had filed the appeal, Evgenia Kalinina, decided not to go forward with it and filed paperwork withdrawing the appeal. The court responded by formally closing the case. No legal issues were decided, no arguments were considered, and the court did not rule on the underlying family-law dispute between Kalinina and John-Paul Babyak. In short: the appeal ended because the appellant chose to drop it.

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