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Nevada family-law decisions, briefed for practice.
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471 cases · Divorce, Property & Alimony - NRS ch. 125 and community property (ch. 123).
FICK VS. FICK (DIVORCE PROPERTY & ALIMONY)
May 7, 1993109 Nev. 458, 851 P.2d 445 (1993) · 22515 · Nevada Supreme Court
Affirmed in part and remanded in part (to establish a time frame for the recipient to commence re-training).Property acquired during marriage is presumed community property (NRS 123.220), though spouses may hold property in joint tenancy (NRS 123.030); a valid joint-tenancy deed rebuttably overcomes the community presumption…
TOIGO VS. TOIGO (DIVORCE PROPERTY & ALIMONY)
Mar 24, 1993109 Nev. 350, 849 P.2d 259 (1993) · 23037 · Nevada Supreme Court
Affirmed. ("The decree of the trial court is affirmed.")An appellate court confines its consideration to the facts reflected in the record on appeal and the necessary and reasonable inferences that may be drawn from them; statements by counsel in briefs or argument…
SIRAGUSA VS. SIRAGUSA (ALIMONY)
Dec 3, 1992108 Nev. 987, 843 P.2d 807 (1992) · Nevada Supreme Court
Affirmed.Per Curiam. On appealability, the Court held that NRS 125.005(4) - which provides that a party's failure to timely object to a domestic relations referee's report precludes a later challenge in the district court - does…
WHITMAN VS. WHITMAN (DIVORCE PROPERTY & ALIMONY)
Nov 5, 1992108 Nev. 949, 840 P.2d 1232 (1992) · 23252 · Nevada Supreme Court
Rehearing granted; on the merits, appeal dismissed.On rehearing, the court held that appellant had timely submitted a notice of appeal to the district court clerk, who improperly stamped it "received" and returned it for lack of a filing fee and a signed in forma…
BLANCHARD VS. BLANCHARD (DIVORCE PROPERTY & ALIMONY)
Oct 23, 1992108 Nev. 908, 839 P.2d 1320 (1992) · 22867 · Nevada Supreme Court
Reversed and remanded, with direction that respondent assert his defenses by a responsive pleading.Reviewing a dismissal under NRCP 12(b)(5), the court accepts the complaint's allegations as true, construes the pleadings liberally, and draws every fair intendment in the plaintiff's favor; dismissal is improper unless…
MARTIN VS. MARTIN (DIVORCE PROPERTY & ALIMONY)
May 18, 1992108 Nev. 384, 832 P.2d 390 (1992) · Nevada Supreme Court
Affirmed.Per Curiam. Federal bankruptcy law determines whether a liability may be discharged, and obligations for alimony, maintenance, and support are not dischargeable, 11 U.S.C. section 523(a)(5). Non-dischargeable debts…
DOBSON VS. DOBSON (DIVORCE)
May 13, 1992108 Nev. 346, 830 P.2d 1336 (1992) · 21718 · Nevada Supreme Court
Motion to dismiss the appeal denied (the order declaring the divorce decree void held appealable; appellant granted thirty days to file the opening brief).Although an order merely quashing service of process is generally not appealable (Orme v. District Court, 105 Nev. 712, 782 P.2d 1325 (1989); Jarstad v. National Farmers Union, 92 Nev. 380, 552 P.2d 49 (1976)), by…
RUTAR VS. RUTAR (DIVORCE PROPERTY & ALIMONY)
Mar 5, 1992108 Nev. 203, 827 P.2d 829 (1992) · 21993 · Nevada Supreme Court
Alimony award reversed and increased to $1,700 per month for eight years; the district court was directed to retain jurisdiction over the alimony award and the property division; remanded.The amount of alimony is within the district court's sound discretion, limited by NRS 125.150, which requires an award that is just and equitable, having regard to the respective merits of the parties and the condition…
SCHRYVER VS. SCHRYVER (DIVORCE PROPERTY & ALIMONY)
Mar 5, 1992108 Nev. 190, 826 P.2d 569 (1992) · 21888 · Nevada Supreme Court
Reversed and remanded.Addressing an issue of first impression in Nevada, the court held that a motion to modify alimony filed within the period of support contemplated by the divorce decree is timely under NRS 125.150(7), even though the…
ANDERSON VS. ANDERSON (DIVORCE PROPERTY & ALIMONY)
Aug 28, 1991107 Nev. 570, 816 P.2d 463 (1991) · 20367 · Nevada Supreme Court
Affirmed.The district court's property division is affirmed where supported by substantial evidence. The unequal division of the parties' joint accounts was just and equitable in light of the overall distribution, including…
AMIE VS. AMIE (DIVORCE PROPERTY & ALIMONY)
Aug 21, 1990106 Nev. 541, 796 P.2d 233 (1990) · 20384 · Nevada Supreme Court
Reversed and remanded for partition of the wage claim.Wages earned during the marriage are community property. Where community property is omitted from a divorce decree - neither mentioned in the findings nor disposed of in the decree - the former spouses hold the omitted…
FULLER VS. FULLER (DIVORCE PROPERTY & ALIMONY)
Jun 28, 1990106 Nev. 404, 793 P.2d 1334 (1990) · 20026, 20109 · Nevada Supreme Court
Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded. The court affirmed except for the order denying the husband's reimbursement motion and the ruling that the Cahill Obligation was his separate debt, which it reversed and remanded to determine the amount of reimbursement. (Per curiam; Springer, J., recused.)The court affirmed in part and reversed in part. On the wife's appeal, it rejected her contention that the decree should be set aside for fraud on the court: the extent of the North Shore-Tahoe Partnership's liabilities…
MALMQUIST VS. MALMQUIST (DIVORCE PROPERTY & ALIMONY)
Apr 24, 1990106 Nev. 231, 792 P.2d 372 (1990) · Nevada Supreme Court
Affirmed in part and reversed in part; the Court reversed the apportionment of the parties' interests in the marital residence and in the improvements and remanded, while affirming the classification of the greenhouse as community property and the judgment in all other respects.Rose, J. The Court adopted, with one modification, the apportionment method of In re Marriage of Moore, 618 P.2d 208 (Cal. 1980), for determining separate and community interests in the appreciation of a residence…
FORD VS. FORD (DIVORCE PROPERTY & ALIMONY)
Nov 27, 1989105 Nev. 672, 782 P.2d 1304 (1989) · Nevada Supreme Court
Reversed and remanded; the Court vacated the order rescinding alimony and abrogating attorney's fees, reinstated the alimony (directing payment of arrears and continued payments) and the $25,000 attorney's-fee award, and directed that Dr. Ford be credited for the tax liability on the Scanlin note.Per Curiam. The decision to reopen a case for additional evidence is within the district court's sound discretion, Andolino v. State, 99 Nev. 346, 662 P.2d 631 (1983); reopening was proper here given the post-trial sale…
MCNABNEY VS. MCNABNEY (DIVORCE PROPERTY & ALIMONY)
Nov 27, 1989105 Nev. 652, 782 P.2d 1291 (1989) · 17755 · Nevada Supreme Court
Affirmed; cross-appeal dismissed. (Springer, J.; Mowbray, J., and Gunderson, Sr. J., concurring.)The court affirmed an unequal (80/20) division of a single item of community property - a contingent legal fee paid as an annuity - clarifying the governing standard under NRS 125.150(1). The dispositive question was…
PETERSEN VS. PETERSEN (DIVORCE PROPERTY & ALIMONY)
Mar 30, 1989105 Nev. 133, 771 P.2d 159 (1989) · 19028 · Nevada Supreme Court
Reversed and remanded to determine whether the wife's allegations of injustice are substantial enough to support setting aside the judgment and decree. (Per curiam.)The court reversed the denial of the wife's NRCP 60(b) motion to set aside a default divorce judgment and property settlement, holding the district court abused its discretion in denying the motion as untimely. The…
HEIM VS. HEIM (DIVORCE PROPERTY & ALIMONY)
Oct 28, 1988104 Nev. 605, 763 P.2d 678 (1988) · 18240 · Nevada Supreme Court
Reversed and remanded for a new trial on the issue of alimony; cross-appeal dismissed. (Springer, J.; Gunderson, C.J., Steffen, Young, and Mowbray, JJ., concurring.)The court reversed a $500-per-month alimony award as an abuse of discretion, holding it was not, as a matter of law, 'just and equitable' under NRS 125.150(1) following a 35-year marriage. An appellate court will…
GRAHAM VS. GRAHAM (DIVORCE PROPERTY & ALIMONY)
Aug 31, 1988104 Nev. 473, 760 P.2d 772 (1988) · 17988 · Nevada Supreme Court
Affirmed in part and reversed in part; remanded with instructions to modify the judgment to provide that the 1984 deed created a joint tenancy in the residence, and for further proceedings (division of remaining partnership assets and reconsideration of appraisal-cost reimbursement). (Per curiam.)The court reversed in part the property division in a divorce, holding the district court erred in awarding the marital residence to the husband as separate property. Although the husband owned the residence at the time…
VERHEYDEN VS. VERHEYDEN (DIVORCE PROPERTY & ALIMONY)
Jul 14, 1988104 Nev. 342, 757 P.2d 1328 (1988) · 18214 · Nevada Supreme Court
Reversed and remanded for entry of a decree consistent with the reversal of both the residence-interest award and the automobile award. (Per curiam; Mowbray, J., disqualified.)The court reversed both a $19,125 award to the wife of an interest in the husband's residence and the award to the wife of a jointly titled 1982 Honda as a purported gift. The house. The husband acquired the Santa…
JENSEN VS. JENSEN (DIVORCE PROPERTY & ALIMONY)
Apr 28, 1988104 Nev. 95, 753 P.2d 342 (1988) · 17919 · Nevada Supreme Court
Affirmed as modified. The court reversed the order requiring the wife to execute the tax-exemption forms (without remand) and otherwise affirmed, including the $500-per-month child support and the community property division. (Per curiam.)The court affirmed as modified. First, on the wife's claim that the husband's wholly owned company owed her $83,040 for her part-time work, the court held that even assuming an agreement to compensate her existed,…
HIGGINS VS. HIGGINS (DIVORCE PROPERTY & ALIMONY)
Oct 29, 1987103 Nev. 443, 744 P.2d 530 (1987) · 17442 · Nevada Supreme Court
Reversed as to the property ownership determination; affirmed in all other respects.On the property issue, the court applied res judicata, whose elements are (1) a valid final judgment on the merits, (2) the same issue decided in the prior adjudication, and (3) the party against whom the defense is…
PELLETIER VS. PELLETIER (DIVORCE PROPERTY & ALIMONY)
Sep 30, 1987103 Nev. 408, 742 P.2d 1027 (1987) · 17594 · Nevada Supreme Court
Reversed and remanded for further findings solely on the issue of damages.Although the mother's tort claim was improperly pleaded (she was not a party under NRCP 13(b) and had not intervened under NRCP 24), the court elected to resolve the conversion claim on the record rather than require a…
HYBARGER VS. HYBARGER (DIVORCE PROPERTY & ALIMONY)
May 29, 1987103 Nev. 255, 737 P.2d 889 (1987) · 16303 · Nevada Supreme Court
Reversed and remanded for recomputation of the community interest in the business; affirmed in all other respects.The parties did not dispute the propriety of using the Pereira apportionment formula (see Pereira v. Pereira, 103 P. 488 (Cal. 1909); Cord v. Neuhoff, 94 Nev. 21, 573 P.2d 1170 (1978)), which values the…
MURPHY VS. MURPHY (DIVORCE PROPERTY & ALIMONY)
Mar 31, 1987103 Nev. 185, 734 P.2d 738 (1987) · 17631 · Nevada Supreme Court
Reversed and remanded for further proceedings.The court held that the six-month limitation on fraud-based challenges (NRCP 60(b)) does not apply to fraud upon the court, jurisdiction over which is inherent, citing Savage v. Salzmann, 88 Nev. 193, 495 P.2d 367…
PRYOR VS. PRYOR (DIVORCE PROPERTY & ALIMONY)
Mar 31, 1987103 Nev. 148, 734 P.2d 718 (1987) · 17193 · Nevada Supreme Court
Reversed and remanded.The court rejected the premise that property can change from separate to community (or vice versa) at the grantor's demand. It held that a life estate, though sometimes described as holding for remaindermen, is a…
YORK VS. YORK (DIVORCE PROPERTY & ALIMONY)
May 1, 1986102 Nev. 179, 718 P.2d 670 (1986) · 15536 · Nevada Supreme Court
Reversed as to the $2,900 award "for other services" and remanded for modification of the judgment; affirmed in all other respects.On remand from York v. York, 99 Nev. 491, 664 P.2d 967 (1983), review was for abuse of discretion. Where community funds are expended to pay a mortgage on a spouse's separate-property residence, the community acquires…
SMITH VS. SMITH (DIVORCE PROPERTY & ALIMONY)
Mar 25, 1986102 Nev. 110, 716 P.2d 229 (1986) · 16662 · Nevada Supreme Court
Reversed and remanded for the community property to be ascertained and divided justly and equitably.The wife moved under NRCP 60(b)(2) to set aside the decree based on fraud, misrepresentation, or other misconduct. The court noted that a Rule 60(b) ruling is affirmed if sufficient evidence in the record supports it…
CAMPBELL VS. CAMPBELL (DIVORCE PROPERTY & ALIMONY)
Aug 27, 1985101 Nev. 380, 705 P.2d 154 (1985) · 15546 · Nevada Supreme Court
Reversed in part and remanded; affirmed in part. The court reversed the portion of the order dividing the house 60/40 in the wife's favor and remanded so the district court could reconsider the travel-agency division, affirming the decree in all other respects.Per Curiam. On appeal and cross-appeal from a divorce decree, the court addressed the characterization and division of marital assets. It held that under NRS 125.150(1)(b)(2), a district court may equitably (unequally)…
MATLEY VS. MATLEY (DIVORCE PROPERTY & ALIMONY)
Jun 21, 1985101 Nev. 281, 701 P.2d 749 (1985) · 15632 · Nevada Supreme Court
Reversed in part and affirmed in part. The court reversed the award to the wife of one-half of the principal of the time certificate of deposit, holding the husband entitled to the entire principal, and affirmed the remainder of the district court's judgment.Per Curiam. The husband challenged a finding that one-half of a time certificate of deposit (TCD), purchased with his separate property, was a gift to the wife. The parties' antenuptial agreement - found valid by the…
WILFORD VS. WILFORD (DIVORCE PROPERTY & ALIMONY)
Apr 26, 1985101 Nev. 212, 699 P.2d 105 (1985) · 15599 · Nevada Supreme Court
Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded. The court affirmed the preliminary-support arrearage and alimony awards, reversed the finding that the community business was valueless, and remanded for the district court to determine the value of the corporate asset, set forth the basis for its valuation, and enter judgment accordingly.Per Curiam. In an appeal from a divorce decree awarding spousal support and dividing community property, the court addressed three assignments of error. First, on preliminary support arrearages, the court applied the…
BROWN VS. BROWN (DIVORCE PROPERTY & ALIMONY)
Mar 19, 1985101 Nev. 144, 696 P.2d 999 (1985) · 12716 · Nevada Supreme Court
Reversed as to the divestiture of the residence interest and the per diem confinement charge; affirmed in all other respects.The court held that where a divorce decree does not require a party to maintain life insurance policies, the party is entitled to cancel them without consequence; the district court therefore erred in divesting the…
KORBEL VS. KORBEL (DIVORCE)
Mar 11, 1985101 Nev. 140, 696 P.2d 993 (1985) · 15491 · Nevada Supreme Court
Reversed and remanded with instructions. The court reversed the $2,500 attorney's fee award and remanded with instruction to modify the award in accordance with the opinion (i.e., to exclude the $2,000 attributable to the prior, dismissed appeal).Per Curiam (Springer, C.J., Mowbray, Steffen, Gunderson, JJ., and Zenoff, Sr. J., concurring). The husband appealed only the portion of a post-decree order awarding the wife $2,500 in attorney's fees, $2,000 of which…
SHANK VS. SHANK (DIVORCE PROPERTY & ALIMONY)
Dec 10, 1984100 Nev. 695, 691 P.2d 872 (1984) · 15312 · Nevada Supreme Court
Reversed. ("Reversed.") The court held the alimony obligation terminated upon the payee spouse's remarriage ceremony and that the district court erred in reinstating it.Per Curiam (Springer, Mowbray, Steffen, and Gunderson, JJ., and Zenoff, Sr. J., concurring). The divorce decree and NRS 125.150(5) provided that alimony would cease upon the payee spouse's 'remarriage.' The payee…
ROBISON VS. ROBISON (DIVORCE PROPERTY & ALIMONY)
Dec 6, 1984100 Nev. 668, 691 P.2d 451 (1984) · 14128 · Nevada Supreme Court
Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded. The court affirmed the spousal-support award, reversed the characterization of the two parcels and the valuation of the community business, and remanded with instructions to reconsider the property distribution and to make the basis for the business valuation manifest.Per Curiam. On the husband's appeal from a divorce decree, the court reversed as to property characterization and business valuation and affirmed as to spousal support. Property characterization: where community funds…
SMITH VS. SMITH (DIVORCE PROPERTY & ALIMONY)
Dec 6, 1984100 Nev. 610, 691 P.2d 428 (1984) · 15078 · Nevada Supreme Court
Affirmed. ("Accordingly, the orders of the district court are affirmed.")Per Curiam. On the husband's appeal from post-judgment orders denying return of monies paid, holding him in contempt, and requiring him to execute a promissory note and deed of trust and to pay attorney's fees, the…
SLY VS. SLY (DIVORCE PROPERTY & ALIMONY)
Apr 24, 1984100 Nev. 236, 679 P.2d 1260 (1984) · 14526 · Nevada Supreme Court
Reversed and remanded for a new trial on all issues respecting the division of the parties' community property.Per Curiam. In an appeal from a divorce property division and the denial of a motion to amend or for new trial, the court reversed and remanded for a new trial. It reaffirmed that where part of the purchase price of one…
HAY VS. HAY (DIVORCE PROPERTY & ALIMONY)
Mar 29, 1984100 Nev. 196, 678 P.2d 672 (1984) · 14201 · Nevada Supreme Court
Reversed and remanded. The court reversed the summary judgment and remanded for trial, directing the district court to permit the appellant to amend her complaint to more clearly state her cause of action and expand her prayer for relief.By the Court, Manoukian, C.J. (Springer, Mowbray, Steffen, and Gunderson, JJ., concurring). Reviewing a summary judgment for the respondent, the court first held that, under Nevada's notice-pleading standard (NRCP…
BURTON VS. BURTON (RETIREMENT DIVISION)
Sep 27, 198399 Nev. 698, 669 P.2d 703 (1983) · 14836 · Nevada Supreme Court
Motion to remand granted; appeal remanded to the district court for consideration of the motion to modify in light of the intervening federal and state law. ("Accordingly, the motion to remand is granted.")This appeal presented a threshold jurisdictional question and a remand request arising from the post-McCarty statutory landscape. The decree, entered June 18, 1982, confirmed the respondent's military retirement…
FORREST VS. FORREST (DIVORCE PROPERTY & ALIMONY)
Aug 31, 198399 Nev. 602, 668 P.2d 275 (1983) · Nevada Supreme Court
Reversed the order denying the motion to amend judgment and remanded for further proceedings, including reconsideration of the character of the residence, consideration of alimony under the governing standards, division of the mobile home as community property, and the taking of further evidence regarding retirement benefits.Per Curiam. All property acquired after marriage is presumed community property, rebuttable only by clear and convincing evidence, NRS 123.220; Cord v. Cord, 98 Nev. 210, 644 P.2d 1026 (1982). A valid deed showing title…
YORK VS. YORK (DIVORCE PROPERTY & ALIMONY)
Jun 15, 198399 Nev. 491, 664 P.2d 967 (1983) · 14459 · Nevada Supreme Court
Reversed and remanded, with directions that the district court determine whether redistribution of the community assets is necessary given that the respondent is not entitled to the $15,000. ("Accordingly, we reverse and remand.")This appeal from a $15,000 award in a second divorce action turned on res judicata, and the court reversed. During the parties' first marriage the wife's separate-property home sale proceeds ($15,000) were deposited…
SCHREIBER VS. SCHREIBER (DIVORCE PROPERTY & ALIMONY)
Jun 9, 198399 Nev. 453, 663 P.2d 1189 (1983) · 13474 · Nevada Supreme Court
Reversed and remanded for the district court to determine whether the parties' oral property settlement agreement is enforceable under the doctrines of part performance or estoppel. ("We reverse.")This appeal from a divorce decree challenged the district court's refusal to give effect to an oral property settlement agreement, and the court reversed. The parties orally agreed at separation in 1977 to divide their…
LOCKEN VS. LOCKEN (DIVORCE PROPERTY & ALIMONY)
Aug 27, 198298 Nev. 369, 650 P.2d 803 (1982) · 12315 · Nevada Supreme Court
Affirmed in part and reversed in part: the imposition of the constructive trust and order to convey were affirmed; the award of attorney's fees was reversed and remanded. ("We affirm that portion of the district court's judgment as it pertains to the conveyance of land held in constructive trust, but reverse as to the award of attorney's fees.")Despite the family caption, this was a father-son real property dispute resolved on constructive trust and attorney's fees grounds; the court affirmed in part and reversed in part. To satisfy a third party's debt, the…
WALPORT VS. WALPORT (DIVORCE)
Jun 25, 198298 Nev. 301, 646 P.2d 1215 (1982) · 13639 · Nevada Supreme Court
Reversed and remanded (as a confession of error), reversing the order denying the appellant's motion to modify the decree of divorce. ("Accordingly, we reverse the order denying appellant's motion to modify the decree of divorce ... and we remand to the district court for further proceedings.")This divorce appeal was resolved by treating the respondent's failure to file an answering brief as a confession of error. After the respondent failed to comply with a January 20, 1982 order (30 days to obtain counsel;…
CORD VS. CORD (DIVORCE PROPERTY & ALIMONY)
May 12, 198298 Nev. 210, 644 P.2d 1026 (1982) · 13040 · Nevada Supreme Court
Affirmed. ("Appellant's other points of error being without merit, we affirm.")On the second appeal in this community-property apportionment dispute, the court affirmed a judgment declaring all assets of the deceased E.L. Cord's estate to be separate property. The first appeal, Cord v. Neuhoff, 94…
DUKE VS. DUKE (RETIREMENT DIVISION)
Apr 28, 198298 Nev. 148, 643 P.2d 1205 (1982) · 13685 · Nevada Supreme Court
Affirmed. ("Affirmed.")The issue was whether McCarty v. McCarty, 453 U.S. 210 (1981), applies retroactively to disturb a final, unappealed divorce decree, and the court held that it does not. The July 18, 1980 decree awarded the respondent 35…
ROCKWELL VS. ROCKWELL (DIVORCE PROPERTY & ALIMONY)
Feb 25, 198298 Nev. 80, 640 P.2d 1318 (1982) · 13334 · Nevada Supreme Court
Reversed and remanded (as a confession of error) as to the property disposition based on the fraudulent-intent findings, for redistribution of the parties' property; the dissolution of the marriage was unaffected. ("Reversed and remanded.")This divorce appeal was resolved on a confession of error. On November 5, 1981, the court ordered the respondent to engage counsel within thirty days and file an answering brief within sixty days, cautioning that…
WALLAKER VS. WALLAKER (DIVORCE PROPERTY & ALIMONY)
Jan 28, 198298 Nev. 26, 639 P.2d 550 (1982) · 11445 · Nevada Supreme Court
Reversed and remanded for a new trial on the merits of the reformation action. ("We therefore reverse and remand for a new trial.")This appeal concerned the district court's refusal to entertain a reformation action directed at a property settlement agreement that survived, rather than merged into, a divorce decree; the court reversed. The 1969…
HALAMA VS. HALAMA (DIVORCE)
Dec 30, 198197 Nev. 628, 637 P.2d 1221 (1981) · 12797 · Nevada Supreme Court
Reversed and remanded for a determination of the appellant's residence and for further proceedings. ("Accordingly, we reverse the district court's order denying the motion for change of venue, and we remand ....")This appeal challenged the denial of a change of venue in a divorce action, and the court reversed. The appellant moved under NRS 13.040 - which provides that an action "shall be tried in the county in which the…
WALDMAN VS. WALDMAN (DIVORCE PROPERTY & ALIMONY)
Oct 28, 198197 Nev. 546, 635 P.2d 289 (1981) · 12029 · Nevada (SCOTN/COA)
Reversed except as to the grant of an absolute and final decree of divorce; remanded for retrial of the remaining issues.The Court (per curiam) reversed portions of a divorce decree entered after a bench trial, sustaining several assignments of error while leaving the decree of divorce intact. First, the record did not support the…
SCHICK VS. SCHICK (DIVORCE PROPERTY & ALIMONY)
Jul 20, 198197 Nev. 352, 630 P.2d 1220 (1981) · 11435 · Nevada (SCOTN/COA)
Reversed and remanded for reconsideration of the property distribution.In this appeal from a final divorce decree the sole issue was whether the district court abused its discretion in distributing property. The Court (per curiam) reversed. The parties' only significant asset was a duplex…
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