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Nevada family-law decisions, briefed for practice.
692 decisions, organized by topic. Practitioner summaries with key holdings, posture, disposition, and the statutes cited - up front, where you need them. Every summary links to the full opinion.
117 cases · Other Family Law - Writs, fees, procedure, and cases outside the coded chapters.
LAITY VS. LAITY (FAMILY)
Jan 31, 202525-04783 · 89872 · Nevada (SCOTN/COA)
Appeal dismissed.The court dismissed the appeal under NRAP 3(a)(2) for failure to pay the filing fee required by NRAP 3(e) or to demonstrate compliance with NRAP 24 (governing in forma pauperis proceedings) within the 14-day period set…
CHANDLER VS. BEECHER, JR. (FAMILY)
Jan 7, 202525-00830 · 89816 · Nevada (SCOTN/COA)
Appeal dismissed.The court dismissed this appeal under NRAP 3(a)(2) for failure to comply with the docketing requirements of NRAP 3(e) and (f). On December 18, 2024, the court issued notices giving appellant 7 days to file the case…
RUMLEY VS. DIST. CT. (NOTHEM) (FAMILY)
Jan 2, 202525-00137 · 89875-COA · Nevada (SCOTN/COA)
Emergency petition for writs of mandamus and prohibition denied without prejudice.This is an original proceeding on an emergency petition for writs of mandamus and prohibition arising from a child custody matter. The challenged decision was a district court minute order denying a motion to quash…
GONZALEZ VS. RIVERA (FAMILY)
Dec 24, 202424-49795 · 89722 · Nevada (SCOTN/COA)
Appeal dismissed.This is a clerk's order dismissing an appeal for failure to comply with appellate filing requirements. Under NRAP 3(f)(1), a case appeal statement must accompany the notice of appeal. The court issued a notice on…
WILLIAMS VS. MOBLEY WILLIAMS (FAMILY)
Dec 13, 202424-47885 · 89268 · Nevada (SCOTN/COA)
Appeal dismissed.The Nevada Supreme Court dismissed the appeal pursuant to appellant's motion for voluntary dismissal under NRAP 42. The order contains no substantive discussion of the merits, standard of review, or underlying district…
MARTINELLI VS. DEL REAL (FAMILY)
Dec 3, 202424-45916 · 88908 · Nevada (SCOTN/COA)
Appeal dismissed.This is a pro se appeal from a final judgment denying a petition for nonparent visitation entered after resolution of a timely tolling motion. The Nevada Supreme Court dismissed the appeal under NRAP 31(d) for failure…
FESSLER VS. FESSLER (FAMILY)
Nov 22, 202424-44685 · 88996 · Nevada (SCOTN/COA)
Appeal dismissed.The court evaluated appellate jurisdiction sua sponte. Under NRAP 3A(b)(1), an appeal lies from a final judgment, defined in Lee v. GNLV Corp., 116 Nev. 424, 426, 996 P.2d 416, 417 (2000). The decree of divorce here did…
MORRIS VS. MORRIS (FAMILY)
Nov 20, 202424-44081 · 89528 · Nevada (SCOTN/COA)
Appeal dismissed.This is a clerk's order dismissing an appeal for failure to comply with docketing requirements under NRAP 3. The appeal was docketed October 24, 2024, without the filing fee and without the case appeal statement…
GOCHUICO VS. GOCHUICO (FAMILY)
Nov 5, 202424-41752 · 89452 · Nevada (SCOTN/COA)
Appeal dismissed.The clerk's order dismisses the appeal under NRAP 3(a)(2) for failure to pay the filing fee required by NRAP 3(e) or to demonstrate compliance with NRAP 24 (governing in forma pauperis applications) after the court…
MAYS VS. MAYS (FAMILY)
Nov 5, 202424-41751 · 89330 · Nevada (SCOTN/COA)
Appeal dismissed.This is a clerk's order dismissing an appeal for failure to comply with NRAP 3(d)(1), which requires that a notice of appeal be served on all parties to the district court action and "contain an acknowledgment of…
BROTHERSON VS. BROTHERSON (FAMILY)
Oct 30, 202424-40904 · 89091 · Nevada (SCOTN/COA)
Appeal dismissed.The court dismissed the appeal for failure to prosecute under NRAP 14 (docketing statement) and NRAP 9(a) (transcript request requirements). After the clerk's September 6, 2024 notice setting deadlines of 21 days for…
IN RE: PARENTAL RIGHTS AS TO D.C.P. (FAMILY)
Oct 9, 202424-37969 · 89338 · Nevada (SCOTN/COA)
Appeal dismissed.The court dismissed the appeal under NRAP 3(a)(2) for failure to comply with the filing-fee requirement of NRAP 3(e). After the appeal was docketed without the requisite fee, the court issued a 14-day cure notice…
PATHOUMPHANH VS. GODENZI (FAMILY)
Oct 9, 202424-37859 · 89378 · Nevada (SCOTN/COA)
Appeal dismissed.The court reiterated the threshold jurisdictional principle that it "may only consider appeals authorized by statute or court rule," quoting Brown v. MHC Stagecoach, LLC, 129 Nev. 343, 345, 301 P.3d 850, 851 (2013). The…
TORRES VS. TORRES (FAMILY)
Sep 24, 202424-35276 · 89188 · Nevada (SCOTN/COA)
Appeal dismissed.The court issued a clerk's order dismissing the appeal as a sanction for failure to file a docketing statement. Pursuant to NRAP 14(b), the court's August 21, 2024 referral notice required appellant to file the…
WILLIAMS VS. MOBLEY WILLIAMS (FAMILY)
Sep 18, 202424-34479 · 89268 · Nevada (SCOTN/COA)
Appeal dismissed.The court dismissed the appeal under NRAP 3(a)(2) for failure to pay the filing fee required by NRAP 3(e) or, alternatively, to demonstrate compliance with the in forma pauperis procedures of NRAP 24. After docketing on…
JUAN VS. SALAZAR (FAMILY)
Aug 23, 202424-30156 · 89062 · Nevada (SCOTN/COA)
Appeal dismissed.The court dismissed the appeal under NRAP 3(a)(2) for failure to comply with the filing-fee requirement of NRAP 3(e). After docketing on July 29, 2024, the clerk issued a 14-day notice to cure by paying the fee or…
CANDELARIA VS. KELLY
Sep 14, 202323-30097 · 83859 · Nevada Supreme Court
Affirmed.Standard of review. The court reviews the disposition of community property for abuse of discretion, citing Kogod v. Cioffi-Kogod, 135 Nev. 64, 75, 439 P.3d 397, 406 (2019), and reviews interpretation of caselaw and…
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