Case library
Nevada family-law decisions, briefed for practice.
1220 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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104 cases · Child Support - NRS ch. 125B, ch. 425, NAC ch. 425.
ENGLE VS. ENGLE (CHILD SUPPORT)
Dec 28, 194563 Nev. 98, 164 P.2d 750 (1945) · 3447 · Nevada Supreme Court
Reversed and remanded. ("... is reversed and the case is remanded to the lower court for proceedings consistent with this opinion.")Appeal from an order denying a motion to modify a 1944 divorce decree to add child support. The decree awarded custody to the mother and "expressly reserve[d] and retain[ed] jurisdiction over the said minor child" with…
LINDSAY VS. LINDSAY (CHILD SUPPORT)
Sep 5, 192952 Nev. 26, 280 P. 95 (1929) · 2783 · Nevada Supreme Court
Reversed; lower court directed to enter an order denying respondent's motion. ("The order appealed from is reversed, and the lower court is directed to enter an order denying respondent's motion.")Appeal by the plaintiff ex-wife from an April 18, 1927 order of the district court purporting to construe the support provisions of a March 22, 1924 divorce decree on the ex-husband's motion filed February 2, 1927.…
ATKINS VS. ATKINS (CHILD SUPPORT)
Sep 13, 192750 Nev. 333, 259 P. 288 (1927) · 2776 · Nevada Supreme Court
The judgment is affirmed.Appeal from the child-support provision of a divorce decree (no motion for new trial below). The defendant physician contended the court lacked jurisdiction to award $100 per month for the child where the complaint…
DECHERT VS. DECHERT (CHILD SUPPORT)
Jul 15, 192246 Nev. 140, 205 P. 593 (1922) · 2535 · Nevada Supreme Court
Order denying the motion to change the decree affirmed.Appeal from a post-decree order denying defendant's motion, made more than a year after entry of a final divorce decree awarding the plaintiff wife support and $100 per month for the minor child, to change the decree's…
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