Nevada family-law decisions, briefed for practice.

The court addressed appellate jurisdiction over a post-judgment family-court order finding contempt, imposing sanctions, and awarding attorney fees and costs incurred in contempt and enforcement proceedings. The…

The court conducted a jurisdictional review of four post-decree orders identified in the case appeal statement, dismissing the appeal in full for lack of appellate jurisdiction. As to the November 29, 2022 order, the…

Appellate jurisdiction. The court reiterated that it has jurisdiction only where an appeal is authorized by statute or court rule, citing Brown v. MHC Stagecoach, LLC, 129 Nev. 343, 345, 301 P.3d 850, 851 (2013).…

The court conducted a sua sponte jurisdictional review. Appellate jurisdiction in Nevada exists only where authorized by statute or court rule. See Brown v. MHC Stagecoach, LLC, 129 Nev. 343, 345, 301 P.3d 850, 851…

The court applied the settled rule that appellate jurisdiction exists only where authorized by statute or court rule, citing Taylor Constr. Co. v. Hilton Hotels, 100 Nev. 207, 678 P.2d 1152 (1984). It analyzed two…

The court dismissed for lack of appellate jurisdiction, addressing each challenged order in turn. As to the November 29, 2022, order, the court reiterated its earlier ruling in Docket No. 86131 that the order is…

The Court of Appeals addressed appellate jurisdiction on its own initiative through a show cause order, applying Nevada's finality rules to a post-divorce-decree custody context. The dispositive question was whether the…

The Court first addressed appellate jurisdiction. Citing NRAP 3A(b)(8), the Court held the order setting aside the divorce decree was a special order after final judgment and therefore appealable. See Brown v. MHC…

The court applied the rule that appellate jurisdiction exists only when authorized by statute or court rule, citing Brown v. MHC Stagecoach, LLC, 129 Nev. 343, 345, 301 P.3d 850, 851 (2013). Two potential bases for…

The court applied its established rule that the appellant bears the burden of establishing appellate jurisdiction. See Moran v. Bonneville Square Assocs., 117 Nev. 525, 527, 25 P.3d 898, 899 (2001). Appellant invoked…

The court analyzed substantive appealability and standing as separate questions. On appealability, the court reiterated that "[t]he substantive appealability of a district court order is not determined by the issues an…

The court addressed appellate jurisdiction sua sponte by issuing an order to show cause. Rodriguez asserted jurisdiction under NRAP 3A(b)(8) as a special order entered after final judgment, contending that the…

The opinion is a jurisdictional dismissal addressing whether a district court order extending a temporary guardianship and denying a motion to dismiss is independently appealable. Appellate jurisdiction in Nevada exists…

The Nevada Supreme Court resolved two questions on review: (1) the controlling child support order under UIFSA when a Nevada decree and a later Norway administrative order coexist, and (2) appellate jurisdiction over…

The court reviewed the district court's custody and parenting-time determinations for abuse of discretion. Ellis v. Carucci, 123 Nev. 145, 149, 161 P.3d 239, 241 (2007); see also Wallace v. Wallace, 112 Nev. 1015, 1019,…

The court dismissed sua sponte for lack of appellate jurisdiction. Citing Brown v. MHC Stagecoach, LLC, 129 Nev. 343, 345, 301 P.3d 850, 851 (2013), the court reiterated that it "may only consider appeals authorized by…

Jurisdiction. The court first addressed appellate jurisdiction. It held that the order denying modification of the divorce decree was reviewable as a special order after final judgment under NRAP 3A(b)(8), citing Burton…

Standard of review: Questions of statutory construction are reviewed de novo. I. Cox Constr. Co. v. CH2 Invs., LLC, 129 Nev. 139, 142, 296 P.3d 1202, 1203 (2013). Appellate jurisdiction: The Court first held that the…

The court addressed jurisdiction, then reached the merits of three challenges. As to jurisdiction over the order setting a vexatious litigant hearing, the court held that no statute or court rule authorizes an appeal…

Docket No. 81887-COA (divorce decree). The court reviewed the subject matter jurisdiction challenge de novo. Ogawa v. Ogawa, 125 Nev. 660, 667, 221 P.3d 699, 704 (2009). Raymond argued that neither party satisfied the…

The Court of Appeals reviewed the district court's child support order for an abuse of discretion, deferring to and upholding findings that are not clearly erroneous and are supported by substantial evidence. Hargrove…

The Court of Appeals reviewed the district court's alimony and property rulings for abuse of discretion, noting that decisions in divorce proceedings will not be disturbed if supported by substantial evidence — "that…

The court dismissed the appeal on two independent jurisdictional/justiciability grounds. First, as to the June 18, 2024 custody order, the appeal is untimely. Notice of entry was served June 19, 2024. Jones filed a…

**Standard of review.** The court reviewed the custody and relocation determination for abuse of discretion, noting that district courts enjoy "broad discretionary powers to determine child custody matters," which will…

The court reviewed the district court's child custody determinations for an abuse of discretion, citing Ellis v. Carucci, 123 Nev. 145, 149, 161 P.3d 239, 241 (2007). On the timeshare modification, the court applied the…

The Court of Appeals reviewed the child custody determination for abuse of discretion under Ellis v. Carucci, 123 Nev. 145, 149, 161 P.3d 239, 241 (2007). It applied the two-part framework from Romano v. Romano, 138…

Standard of review: The Court of Appeals reviews decisions in divorce proceedings, including spousal support awards, for an abuse of discretion, citing Williams v. Williams, 120 Nev. 559, 566, 97 P.3d 1124, 1129 (2004),…

The Court of Appeals reviewed the order denying modification of child support for an abuse of discretion, citing Backman v. Gelbman, 141 Nev., Adv. Op. 8, 565 P.3d 330, 333 (Ct. App. 2025), and noting that an abuse of…

Standard of review and writ jurisdiction. The court reviewed statutory interpretation de novo, citing Hobbs v. State, 127 Nev. 234, 237, 251 P.3d 177, 179 (2011). Mandamus is available to compel a duty or control a…

The court (Hardesty, C.J., for an en banc court) addressed two threshold issues — writ jurisdiction and mootness — before reaching a substantive due process question. Writ jurisdiction. Citing NRS 34.170, In re William…

**Standard of review.** The court reviewed the distribution of community property, orders concerning omitted assets, child support, alimony, and attorney fees each for abuse of discretion. See Kogod v. Cioffi-Kogod, 135…