MAYS VS. MAYS (FAMILY)

Key holdings

Practitioner summary

This is an order dismissing a pro se appeal from a district court decree of divorce out of the Eighth Judicial District Court, Family Division, Clark County. The dismissal rests on the appellant's failure to file required appeal-processing documents. The court recounted that on May 5, 2026, it issued a notice directing the appellant to file and serve a transcript request form or certificate of no transcript request within 14 days, and the docketing statement within 21 days. After the appellant failed to comply, the court issued a June 1, 2026, order directing compliance by June 15, 2026, and cautioning that failure to timely comply could result in dismissal. The appellant did not file the documents. On that record, the court determined that "it appears appellant has abandoned this appeal" and ordered the appeal dismissed. The opinion does not cite any statute, rule, or case, and does not reach the merits of the underlying divorce decree.

In plain language

This case involves a divorce. One of the spouses, Jametria Mays, was unhappy with the divorce decree issued by the family court in Clark County and appealed it to the Nevada Supreme Court. She did not have a lawyer and was representing herself. When someone files an appeal, the court requires certain paperwork to move the case forward. Here, on May 5, 2026, the Supreme Court sent Mays a notice telling her to file specific documents: a transcript request form (or a certificate saying no transcript was being requested) within 14 days, and a "docketing statement" - a standard form that describes the basics of the appeal - within 21 days. Mays did not file those documents. On June 1, 2026, the court issued another order giving her until June 15, 2026, to file them. That order warned that if she did not comply on time, her appeal could be dismissed. According to the court, Mays still had not filed the documents. Because of this, the court concluded she had abandoned her appeal and dismissed it. The dismissal means the appeal will not go forward; it does not reflect any decision by the Supreme Court about whether the divorce decree itself was right or wrong.