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Nevada family-law decisions, briefed for practice.
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56 results for “NRS 125C.0035(4)(d)”
SHEEHAN VS. MANTY (CHILD CUSTODY)
Mar 16, 202323-08107 · 84125-COA · Nevada (SCOTN/COA)
Affirmed. ("ORDER the judgment of the district court AFFIRMED.")This is an appeal from a family court order dismissing a child custody action under NRS 125A.365 on inconvenient-forum grounds in favor of California. The Court of Appeals addressed four assignments of error. On the…
LOZANO-DONOHUE VS. DONOHUE (CHILD CUSTODY)
Dec 13, 202323-40378 · 84261-COA · Nevada (SCOTN/COA)
Reversed and remanded (Order of Reversal and Remand).The Court of Appeals reviews child custody determinations for an abuse of discretion, but "the district court must have reached its conclusions for the appropriate reasons." Ellis v. Carucci, 123 Nev. 145, 149, 161 P.3d…
MIZRACHI VS. MIZRACHI (CHILD CUSTODY)
Sep 15, 201616-90106 · 66176-COA · Nevada Supreme Court
Reversed and remanded.The Court of Appeals addressed the proper procedure for resolving a dispute over an ambiguous term in an agreement-based divorce decree governing custody. Threshold characterization: clarification vs. modification.…
LEE VS. PERRY (CHILD CUSTODY)
May 20, 202626-23130 · 90830-COA · Nevada (SCOTN/COA)
Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded.**Due process challenge.** The court restated that "[P]rocedural due process requires notice and an opportunity to be heard," Callie v. Bowling, 123 Nev. 181, 183, 160 P.3d 878, 879 (2007), and that "[d]ue process is…
LUCIANO VS. LUCIANO (CHILD CUSTODY)
Jul 7, 202222-21375 · 83522-COA · Nevada (SCOTN/COA)
Dismissed in part and affirmed in part. The court ordered "the judgment of the district court AFFIRMED" as to the orders denying NRCP 60(b) relief, and dismissed the appeal insofar as it challenged the decree of divorce.The court addressed a jurisdictional bar and then the merits under an abuse-of-discretion standard. On jurisdiction, the court held Amy's September 17, 2021, notice of appeal was untimely as to the June 2020 divorce…
PROENZA CHAVEZ VS. RAMOS VENTURA (CHILD CUSTODY)
Mar 5, 202626-10403 · 90697-COA · Nevada (SCOTN/COA)
Reversed and remanded.The Court of Appeals reviewed the denial of a motion to modify custody without an evidentiary hearing for abuse of discretion. Myers v. Haskins, 138 Nev. 553, 556, 513 P.3d 527, 531 (Ct. App. 2022). A district court…
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