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Nevada family-law decisions, briefed for practice.
5 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.
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5 cases · counsel of record Law Office of Daniel Marks
NEYMAN VS. NEYMAN
Aug 21, 202525-36828 · 86780-COA · Nevada (SCOTN/COA)
Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded.**Alimony modification jurisdiction (Siragusa).** The court reviewed questions of law, including interpretation of caselaw, de novo (Martin v. Martin), but treated whether a party is in arrears as a question of fact…
RAPPA VS. LORICO (FAMILY)
Mar 6, 202589757 · Nevada (SCOTN/COA)
Appeal dismissed.This is a clerk's order dismissing an appeal pursuant to a stipulation of the parties under NRAP 42. The court did not reach the merits and announced no substantive rule of law. The order recites that, per the…
RAPPA VS. DIST. CT. (LORICO) (FAMILY)
Mar 5, 202525-10080 · 89820-COA · Nevada (SCOTN/COA)
Petition dismissed.This is an order dismissing an original writ proceeding based on a stipulation of the parties. The petitioner sought extraordinary relief in the form of a writ of mandamus and/or prohibition. Rather than reaching the…
BERTUCCINI, III VS. ESPOSITO (CHILD CUSTODY)
Jun 16, 202323-19244 · 84708-COA · Nevada (SCOTN/COA)
Reversed and remanded. ("ORDER OF REVERSAL AND REMAND")The Court of Appeals reviewed the district court's decision to deny a motion to modify custody without first conducting an evidentiary hearing for an abuse of discretion, citing Bautista v. Picone, 134 Nev. 334, 338,…
Rennels v. Rennels
Aug 4, 2011127 Nev. 564, 257 P.3d 396 (2011) · 53872 · Nevada Supreme Court
Reversed and remanded.Standard of review. The court reviews custody decisions, including visitation schedules, for an abuse of discretion, Rivero v. Rivero, 125 Nev. 410, 428, 216 P.3d 218, 226 (2009); Wallace v. Wallace, 112 Nev. 1015,…
Every summary is independently verified against the source opinion; summaries are informational research aids, not legal advice, and no substitute for reading the decision. Topic groupings are derived automatically from each case’s category tag and cited statutes; a case may appear under two topics.