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19 results for “NRS 128.105(4)”
IN RE: PARENTAL RIGHTS AS TO WEINPER (TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS)
May 30, 1996112 Nev. 710, 918 P.2d 325 (1996) · 27047 · Nevada Supreme Court
Affirmed. The order terminating parental rights was affirmed.By the Court, Rose, J. (Steffen, C.J., Young and Shearing, JJ., concurring). The court affirmed an order terminating parental rights, rejecting due-process, jurisdictional, and dispositional challenges. Due process.…
IN RE: PARENTAL RIGHTS AS TO M.A.B. AND M.B.
Jan 16, 202525-02462 · 88628 · Nevada (SCOTN/COA)
Affirmed.The court applied Nevada's two-prong termination framework under NRS 128.105(1) and In re Termination of Parental Rts. as to N.J., 116 Nev. 790, 800-01, 8 P.3d 126, 132-33 (2000): clear and convincing evidence of (1) at…
IN RE: PARENTAL RIGHTS AS TO: K.C. (FAMILY)
Feb 12, 202626-07184 · 90171 · Nevada (SCOTN/COA)
Affirmed.Standard of review: questions of law are reviewed de novo; factual findings are reviewed for substantial evidence. In re Parental Rts. as to A.L., 130 Nev. 914, 918, 337 P.3d 758, 761 (2014). Substantial evidence is…
IN RE: PARENTAL RIGHTS AS TO A.J.B.
Oct 11, 202424-38299 · 85539 · Nevada (SCOTN/COA)
Affirmed.Standard of review: Questions of law are reviewed de novo; the district court's factual findings are reviewed for substantial evidence — evidence "a reasonable person may accept as adequate" to support a conclusion. In…
IN RE: PARENTAL RIGHTS AS TO T.M.R.
May 27, 2021137 Nev. Adv. Op. 23 (2021) · 81032 · Nevada Supreme Court
Affirmed.The opinion resolves an ambiguity in Nevada's civil discovery framework as applied to parental-rights terminations. The Court reviews a denial of a motion in limine for abuse of discretion under State ex rel. Department…
WASHOE COUNTY DSS VS. KORY L.G. (TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS)
Feb 28, 2013129 Nev. 125, 295 P.3d 589 (2013) · 60071 · Nevada Supreme Court
Affirmed.By the Court, Douglas, J. (Pickering, C.J., and Gibbons, Hardesty, Parraguirre, Cherry, and Saitta, JJ., concurring; en banc). The court addressed whether a nonoffending parent - whose child was placed in state custody…
IN RE: PARENTAL RIGHTS AS TO K.M.W.
Mar 9, 202323-07329 · 83038 · Nevada (SCOTN/COA)
Affirmed.The court reviewed the district court's termination order under the established two-part standard: clear and convincing evidence of (1) at least one ground of parental fault and (2) that termination serves the child's…
IN RE: PARENTAL RIGHTS AS TO N.D.L. (FAMILY)
May 15, 202525-21908 · 89361 · Nevada (SCOTN/COA)
Affirmed.The court applied the familiar two-prong termination framework under NRS 128.105(1) and In re Termination of Parental Rts. as to N.J., 116 Nev. 790, 800-01, 8 P.3d 126, 132-33 (2000): clear and convincing evidence of…
IN RE: PARENTAL RIGHTS AS TO R.A.S.
Apr 24, 2025141 Nev. Adv. Op. 20 (2025) · 88174 · Nevada Supreme Court
Reversed.The Court began with a doctrinal framing distinguishing privately initiated termination petitions from those initiated by the state under NRS Chapter 128. While both fall within NRS Chapter 128 without statutory…
IN RE: PARENTAL RIGHTS AS TO A.J.B.
Dec 15, 202222-39372 · 84130 · Nevada (SCOTN/COA)
Affirmed.The court reviewed the procedural due process challenge de novo, citing Callie v. Bowling, 123 Nev. 181, 183, 160 P.3d 878, 879 (2007), for the requirement that a party receive notice and an opportunity to be heard. On…
IN RE: PARENTAL RIGHTS AS TO T.F.F. (FAMILY)
Jun 18, 202525-26942 · 89626 · Nevada (SCOTN/COA)
Affirmed.Standard of review: questions of law are reviewed de novo; the district court's factual findings are reviewed for substantial evidence. In re Parental Rts. as to A.L., 130 Nev. 914, 918, 337 P.3d 758, 761 (2014).…
IN RE: PARENTAL RIGHTS AS TO A.D.L. AND C.L.B., JR.
Oct 5, 2017133 Nev. Adv. Op. 72 (2017) · 69047 · Nevada Supreme Court
Reversed.The court reviewed the district court's findings of fact for substantial evidence, applying close scrutiny because termination of parental rights is "tantamount to imposition of a civil death penalty." In re Parental…
IN RE: PARENTAL RIGHTS AS TO S.V.
Aug 11, 202222-25200 · 83008 · Nevada (SCOTN/COA)
Affirmed.The court applied the two-part termination framework under NRS 128.105(1) and In re Termination of Parental Rights as to N.J., 116 Nev. 790, 800-01, 8 P.3d 126, 132-33 (2000), requiring clear and convincing evidence of…
IN RE: PARENTAL RIGHTS AS TO G.J.M., F.M.
Sep 15, 202222-28921 · 83928 · Nevada (SCOTN/COA)
Affirmed.The court reviewed a termination order under the familiar two-prong framework of NRS 128.105(1) and In re Termination of Parental Rights as to N.J., 116 Nev. 790, 800-01, 8 P.3d 126, 132-33 (2000): clear and convincing…
DALY VS. DALY (TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS)
Mar 6, 1986102 Nev. 66, 715 P.2d 56 (1986) · 15423 · Nevada Supreme Court
Affirmed.Applying the clear and convincing evidence standard adopted in Cloninger v. Russell, 98 Nev. 597, 655 P.2d 528 (1982) (following Santosky v. Kramer, 455 U.S. 745 (1982)), and the two-part jurisdictional/dispositional…
In Re Nj
Dec 24, 2009125 Nev. 835, 221 P.3d 1255 (2009) · 51125 · Nevada Supreme Court
Affirmed.The court resolved two questions of first impression concerning the interplay between Nevada parental-termination law and the ICWA, 25 U.S.C. §§ 1901-63 (2006): (1) which burden of proof governs when both state and…
IN THE MATTER OF PARENTAL RIGHTS AS TO DECK (TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS)
Jan 4, 1997113 Nev. 124; 930 P.2d 760 · 27260 · Nevada Supreme Court
Affirmed.Affirming termination of both parents' rights, the court applied the two-part Champagne framework requiring clear and convincing evidence of jurisdictional grounds (a specific fault or condition of the parent) and…
MATTER OF PARENTAL RIGHTS AS TO J.L.N. (TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS)
Oct 18, 2002118 Nev. 621, 55 P.3d 955 (2002) · 38100 · Nevada Supreme Court
Reversed. ("we reverse the order of the district court terminating Diana's parental rights.")The court reversed an order terminating an incarcerated mother's parental rights, holding the record lacked substantial evidence of best interest or parental fault. The parent-child relationship is a fundamental liberty…
PHILIP R. VS. EIGHTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT (CHILD WELFARE)
May 3, 2018134 Nev. 223, 416 P.3d 242 (2018) · 73198 (c/w 73272) · Nevada Supreme Court
Petitions for writ relief granted; writ of mandamus to issue directing the district court to vacate the order placing the child with the maternal relatives and to conduct a trial de novo consistent with NRS 128.110(2). Prior stay vacated.By the Court, Cherry, J. (Parraguirre and Stiglich, JJ., concurring). Consolidated original petitions for writs of mandamus challenging a district court placement order entered after termination of parental rights.…
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