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Nevada family-law decisions, briefed for practice.
1201 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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471 cases · Divorce, Property & Alimony - NRS ch. 125 and community property (ch. 123).
ASPINWALL VS. ASPINWALL (DIVORCE)
Oct 15, 191640 Nev. 55, 160 P. 253 (1916), reh'g denied · 2235 · Nevada Supreme Court
Order of dismissal affirmed. Petition for rehearing denied per curiam.Appeal by the plaintiff husband from an order dismissing his divorce action after a demurrer for want of jurisdiction was sustained and he declined to amend. McCarran, J., construing the 1915 divorce venue statute…
PRESSON VS. PRESSON (DIVORCE)
Apr 15, 191538 Nev. 203, 147 P. 1081 (1915) · 2140 · Nevada Supreme Court
Judgment affirmed.Appeal by the plaintiff wife from a judgment denying her divorce for want of jurisdiction. The complaint alleged six months' Washoe County residence under Rev. Laws 1912, sec. 5838; the answer denied it; a jury…
GRANT VS. GRANT (DIVORCE)
Jan 15, 191538 Nev. 185, 147 P. 451 (1915) · 2154 · Nevada Supreme Court
Order denying the motion to set aside the judgment affirmed.Appeal by the plaintiff husband from an order denying his post-judgment motion to set aside a judgment for the defendant wife and dismiss the entire divorce proceeding without prejudice for want of jurisdiction. The…
MCALLISTER VS. MCALLISTER (DIVORCE)
Jan 15, 191437 Nev. 92, 139 P. 781 (1914) · 2103 · Nevada Supreme Court
Judgment reversed and cause remanded.Appeal by the plaintiff husband from a judgment of dismissal presenting the single question whether the complaint stated a cause of action for divorce on the ground of extreme cruelty. Norcross, J., summarized the…
TIEDEMANN VS. TIEDEMANN (DIVORCE)
Oct 15, 191336 Nev. 494, 137 P. 824 (1913) · 2076 · Nevada Supreme Court
Judgment reversed and the order sustaining the demurrer set aside, subject to the defendant's privilege to answer within such time as the court below may order. Talbot, C.J., concurring; McCarran, J., dissenting.Second appeal in the case (see 35 Nev. 259, reversing an order quashing service): appeal by the plaintiff wife from a judgment dismissing her divorce action on an order sustaining the defendant's demurrer for want of…
FLEMING VS. FLEMING (DIVORCE)
Jul 15, 191336 Nev. 135, 134 P. 445 (1913) · 2021 · Nevada Supreme Court
Order denying the application for publication of summons affirmed.Appeal by the plaintiff husband from an order of the Second Judicial District Court, Washoe County, denying his application for an order for publication of summons against his nonresident wife, the judge concluding from…
WHISE VS. WHISE (DIVORCE)
Apr 15, 191336 Nev. 16, 131 P. 967 (1913) · 2023 · Nevada Supreme Court
Order permitting the amendment reversed.Appeal by the plaintiff husband from a Second Judicial District Court order of April 1, 1912 permitting the defendant, long after the extended time for a notice of intention to move for a new trial had expired, to amend…
WINTERS VS. WINTERS (DIVORCE PROPERTY & ALIMONY)
Apr 15, 191234 Nev. 323 (1912), reh'g denied · 1907 · Nevada Supreme Court
Judgment and decree modified to reduce the plaintiff's interest from an undivided one-sixth to an undivided one-ninth and, as so modified, affirmed. Petition for rehearing denied.Appeal by the defendant Winters children from a decree adjudging plaintiff Nellie G. McCormick (who died after judgment; her executrix and her surviving child's guardian ad litem were substituted) equitable owner of an…
KAPP VS. KAPP (DIVORCE PROPERTY & ALIMONY)
Jan 15, 190931 Nev. 70 (1909) · 1807 · Nevada Supreme Court
Appeal dismissed.Motion by the respondent (plaintiff in a pending Esmeralda County action for dissolution of the bonds of matrimony) to dismiss the defendant's appeal from an order increasing alimony pendente lite from $100 to $200 per…
CRAWFORD VS. CRAWFORD (DIVORCE PROPERTY & ALIMONY)
Jan 5, 189924 Nev. 410, 56 P. 94 (1899) · 1514 · Nevada Supreme Court
Judgment and order denying a new trial affirmed.Appeal by the plaintiff husband from a judgment for the defendant wife, and from an order denying a new trial, in his action to cancel, for fraud and undue influence, his deed of November 4, 1896 conveying to her all…
GARDNER VS. GARDNER (DIVORCE)
Apr 5, 189623 Nev. 207, 45 P. 139 (1896) · 1461 · Nevada Supreme Court
The judgment and the order denying a new trial are affirmed.Appeal by defendant husband from a decree of divorce for extreme cruelty (with custody of the minor child to plaintiff wife) and from denial of his new-trial motion, on assigned errors of law at trial and insufficiency…
LAKE VS. BENDER (DIVORCE PROPERTY & ALIMONY)
Jul 15, 188418 Nev. 361 (1884) · 1138 · Nevada Supreme Court
C. T. Bender, administrator, substituted as party defendant and respondent in place of the deceased M. C. Lake; the judgment and order appealed from are affirmed.Plaintiff wife's appeal from the order denying her motion for new trial limited to the property issues and from the portions of the divorce decree affecting alimony and property rights, after the district court granted…
KELLY VS. KELLY (DIVORCE)
Jul 15, 188318 Nev. 49 (1883) · 1139 · Nevada Supreme Court
Judgment affirmed.Wife's appeal, on the judgment roll alone, from a judgment of divorce granted to the husband on the ground of extreme cruelty. Belknap, J., affirmed. The court gave extreme cruelty a negative rather than affirmative…
LAKE VS. LAKE (DIVORCE PROPERTY & ALIMONY)
Oct 15, 188217 Nev. 230 (1882) · 1128 · Nevada Supreme Court
The objections to hearing the motion are overruled.On appellant wife's motion in the supreme court for an order directing respondent husband to pay the costs, expenses, and counsel fees (not exceeding $5,000) of her appeal from the property portion of the divorce decree…
WUEST VS. WUEST (DIVORCE PROPERTY & ALIMONY)
Oct 15, 188217 Nev. 217 (1882) · 1118 · Nevada Supreme Court
Cause remanded with instructions to the district court to modify its decree by striking out the allowance of $300 as counsel fees; in all other respects the judgment is affirmed, with costs.Appeal by plaintiff husband from a decree granting defendant wife a divorce on the ground of extreme cruelty with affirmative relief: all of plaintiff's property, $20 per month support for the infant child, and $300…
LAKE VS. LAKE (DIVORCE PROPERTY & ALIMONY)
Jan 15, 188216 Nev. 363 (1882) · 1091 · Nevada Supreme Court
The order of the district court is affirmed and the motion of respondent allowed.Defendant husband's appeal from a post-decree district court order requiring him to pay plaintiff wife's attorney $600 for services in further proceedings on the property branch of the divorce suit (the decree had…
FITZPATRICK VS. FITZPATRICK (DIVORCE)
Apr 15, 18706 Nev. 63 (1870) · 6 Nev. 63 · Nevada Supreme Court
The judgment of the district court is affirmed.Plaintiff wife's appeal from a judgment for defendant in her divorce action, entered after the district court set aside a referee's report (taken on a consent reference) finding her entitled to a decree. Whitman, J.,…
HOWE VS. HOWE (DIVORCE PROPERTY & ALIMONY)
Jul 1, 18684 Nev. 469 (1868) · 4 Nev. 469 · Nevada Supreme Court
The decree, so far as it purports to make disposition of or direction concerning property, is reversed, and the cause remanded with leave to both parties to amend their pleadings.Appeal from a divorce decree of the Fourth District Court; though taken from the entire decree, the only objections presented were to the portions awarding the whole common property to respondent and barring appellant…
REED VS. REED (DIVORCE)
Jul 1, 18684 Nev. 395 (1868) · 4 Nev. 395 · Nevada Supreme Court
The judgment below is affirmed.Plaintiff wife's appeal from a district court judgment refusing her a divorce sought on the statutory ground of extreme cruelty, assigning insufficiency of the evidence to support the findings and that the facts found…
SHECKLES VS. SHECKLES (DIVORCE)
Jul 1, 18673 Nev. 404 (1867) · 3 Nev. 404 · Nevada Supreme Court
The order refusing a change of venue is reversed and the case transferred to Douglas County; the judge who tries the case may reconsider the allowance for alimony and award such sum as may be deemed necessary under all the circumstances.Appeal from an order of the district court refusing defendant husband's motion to change the venue of plaintiff wife's Lyon County divorce action to Douglas County. Opinion by Lewis, J., Beatty, C. J., concurring;…
WILDE VS. WILDE (DIVORCE PROPERTY & ALIMONY)
Jul 1, 18662 Nev. 306 (1866) · 2 Nev. 306 · Nevada Supreme Court
The order directing the defendant Jonathan L. Wilde to pay $193.75 into court is reversed and set aside, and the court below will make an order to that effect in its minutes.Defendant husband's appeal from a post-judgment order directing him to pay $193.75 into court, entered after plaintiff wife's divorce suit terminated in a judgment for defendant; her motion for alimony pendente lite and…
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