Nevada family-law decisions, briefed for practice.

Following Herrick v. Herrick, 55 Nev. 59, 25 P. (2d) 378, the court held that under the five-years'-separation statute (Stats. 1931, c. 111, sec. 1) the complaint need not negative the plaintiff's fault in causing the…

Appeal by the husband (defendant) from a decree of the district court annulling and setting aside a prior decree of divorce he had obtained, and from the order denying a new trial. The wife's suit alleged the divorce…

The dispositive issue was the trial court's dismissal of the wife's cross-complaint for lack of proof of the plaintiff-husband's Nevada residence, a jurisdictional fact. The plaintiff conceded that the evidence proved…

The case reached the court on appeal from the judgment and from the order denying a new trial in a divorce granted to the husband on the ground of the wife's incurable impotency. The court declined to review the…

This per curiam opinion decided the merits of the husband's appeal from an order granting the wife's motion for a change of venue in a divorce action originally filed in the Third Judicial District Court, Lander County.…

The court framed the sole dispositive issue as whether the evidence sustained the finding that the wife committed extreme cruelty resulting in injury to the husband's health. It acknowledged the general rule against…

On the wife's appeal from a divorce decree, the court entertained her motion for an allowance of attorney's fees, a filing fee, and costs on appeal, submitted without oral argument. The court reaffirmed that the poverty…

The court construed Stats. 1931, c. 111, sec. 1, which added living apart for five consecutive years without cohabitation as a ground for divorce, granting the court discretion to decree divorce "at the suit of either…

This per curiam opinion resolved two motions made in connection with the husband's appeal from an order granting the wife's motion for a change of place of trial. On the motion to strike, the court held that nothing can…

Motion by the appellant wife in the Nevada Supreme Court for an order requiring the respondent husband to pay a $500 attorney fee to enable her to prosecute her appeal from a Washoe County decree granting him a divorce.…

Appeal by the defendant wife from a judgment of divorce entered on a jury's general verdict for the plaintiff husband (desertion and extreme cruelty pleaded) and from the order denying a new trial. Held: (1) the…

Appeal by the defendant wife from a decree granting the plaintiff husband a divorce (cruelty) in the Second Judicial District Court, Washoe County, and from the order denying her new trial motion. Ducker, J. The wife's…

Appeal by the defendant husband from a decree of divorce in favor of the plaintiff wife on the seventh statutory ground, neglect of the husband for one year to provide the common necessaries of life where the neglect is…

Appeal by the defendant wife from a Washoe County decree granting the plaintiff husband a divorce for extreme cruelty and from the finding rejecting her counterclaim for separate maintenance ($100 per month). Sanders,…

Decision on rehearing (granted September 13, 1929) of D'Errico v. D'Errico, 51 Nev. 363, 276 P. 530 (1929). The plaintiff husband's petition urged that the res judicata ruling eliminated only the original complaint and…

Appeal by the defendant wife from a Second Judicial District Court (Washoe County) decree granting the plaintiff husband a divorce on the ground of constructive desertion, and from the order denying her new trial…

Appeal by the defendant wife from an order denying her motion to set aside a default and divorce judgment entered March 21, 1925 on constructive service. Ducker, C.J. The order for publication required mailing a copy of…

Second reported appeal in the Klepper divorce litigation (No. 2804; the earlier reported ruling in the same appeal (51 Nev. 145, denying a motion to dismiss) appears at 51 Nev. 145). Defendant appealed from the order…

Appeal by the defendant wife from a decree granting the plaintiff husband a divorce for extreme cruelty committed after May 9, 1927, and from the order denying her new trial motion. Ducker, C.J. The wife's affirmative…

Appeal by the defendant wife from a Washoe County judgment granting the plaintiff husband a divorce and from the order denying her new trial motion; trial to the court without a jury. Sanders, J. The husband's June 15,…

Appeal by the defendant wife from a decree of divorce granted to the plaintiff husband, challenging only the bona fides of his alleged three-month Douglas County residence pleaded under Rev. Laws 5838 as amended by…

Suit for divorce on the ground of nonsupport; the wife prevailed below and the Supreme Court reversed outright. Sanders, J., held that the plaintiff could not predicate a nonsupport cause of action on the defendant's…

Motion by the respondent wife (plaintiff below) to dismiss the defendant husband's appeal from a default divorce decree entered after his special appearance and motion to quash the summons and its service (personal…

Appeal by the plaintiff husband, from the judgment only, after the district court in his cruelty divorce action awarded the defendant wife $200 monthly separate maintenance on her counterclaim (which pleaded cruelty and…

Appeal from a decree of divorce for extreme cruelty in the wife's favor, taken from the judgment alone; with no appeal from the order denying a new trial, review was confined to the judgment roll and a bill of…

Suit for divorce on the ground of desertion, tried to a jury, verdict and decree for the plaintiff husband; the defendant wife appealed from the judgment and the order denying a new trial. The pivotal ruling below…

Husband's action for divorce on the ground of willful desertion, on a constructive-desertion theory (the defendant's acts and conduct justified plaintiff in leaving, chargeable to the offending spouse as desertion, 9…

Appeal from a judgment annulling a marriage and from the order denying a new trial. The complaint pleaded two causes under Rev. Laws 2355 (annulment for want of understanding rendering a party incapable of assent, or…

Appeal upon the judgment roll alone from the property provisions of a divorce decree. The plaintiff wife was granted a divorce for extreme cruelty; the decree ordered the defendant husband to convey to her by sufficient…

Motion by the respondent wife, in the plaintiff husband's appeal from a judgment in her favor and the order denying a new trial in his divorce action, for $200 attorney's fees for the defense of the appeal, for expenses…

Appeal from a default divorce decree and from the order denying the defendant wife's motion under the surprise/inadvertence/excusable-neglect statute to vacate it. The nonresident defendant was personally served in…

Motion by the appellant wife for $2,500 in counsel fees to prosecute her appeal from a decree of divorce obtained by the respondent husband. Ducker, C.J., denied the motion: allowances to the wife rest on necessity to…

Reported at 48 Nev. 153, the case comprises several opinions. On motion for allowance (August 30, 1924, 228 P. 305): the appellant wife, having perfected her appeal from the order denying a new trial in the husband's…

Action for divorce for extreme cruelty in which the wife prevailed; the husband appealed from the order denying his motion for a new trial, having pleaded in bar a prior decree of the Supreme Court of the District of…

On respondent wife's motion in the supreme court for a $250 counsel-fee allowance to defend appellant husband's appeal from her Washoe County divorce decree, the court reaffirmed its power to order payment of attorney…

Appeal by plaintiff husband from orders vacating his February 17, 1922 default divorce decree (constructive service by publication and mailing) and permitting defendant wife to answer. The controlling clause of Rev.…

Defendant wife appealed from a decree dismissing plaintiff husband's extreme-cruelty divorce action without prejudice to a new suit on the same cause if reconciliation failed. The alleged cruelty postdated a May 3, 1919…

Plaintiff husband appealed from a judgment on the pleadings for defendant wife in his cruelty-based divorce action. Her answer pleaded in bar the April 15, 1920 Cabell County, West Virginia separate maintenance decree…

Defendant husband appealed from an order denying his motion for a new trial of the issues raised by his cross-complaint respecting 461 Vine Street, Reno, which the divorce decree (extreme cruelty; alimony for the two…

Plaintiff appealed from a judgment denying her publication-service divorce action for nonsupport and from denial of new trial; the defendant defaulted and counsel appeared below as amici curiae to test the case. The…

Appeal on the judgment roll alone (a tendered bill of exceptions was disallowed as untimely, 3 Rev. Laws p. 3342) from portions of a divorce judgment for the plaintiff wife. A jury found extreme cruelty; the court…

Defendant appealed from a Washoe County decree of September 30, 1919 granting plaintiff a divorce for adultery (defendant's February 16, 1910 ceremonial marriage to and open cohabitation with Emily James) and from…

Wife appealed from a judgment for the husband, after a bench trial, in her action for breach of an August 30, 1915 written agreement made during the pendency of his divorce action, by which she covenanted not to seek…

Defendant appealed from an order entered in a contempt proceeding initiated by the plaintiff's affidavit in the divorce action, based on his failure to pay the $50 monthly alimony awarded her in connection with an…

Executors of James G. Sweeney appealed from an order and judgment, on the petition of the divorced wife filed October 13, 1917 in the 1914 divorce action, substituting them as defendants for their deceased testator (d.…

Defendant wife appealed from a decree granting plaintiff husband a divorce founded on extreme cruelty and desertion, all underlying acts having occurred in Illinois where the parties formerly lived together; the husband…

Plaintiff husband appealed from a judgment for the defaulted, non-appearing defendant wife in his desertion divorce action (wilful desertion for one year, Rev. Laws 5838) and from denial of new trial. The parties…

Appeal by the plaintiff from a judgment sustaining a plea of res adjudicata founded on a judgment of the Supreme Judicial Court of Androscoggin County, Maine, denying the plaintiff's earlier divorce libel. Coleman, J.,…

Appeal by the plaintiff former wife from an order sustaining a demurrer, on jurisdictional grounds, to her White Pine County action for partition and accounting of property held by the defendant, brought under Rev. Laws…

Appeal by the plaintiff wife from a Second Judicial District Court judgment decreeing the court 'without jurisdiction in said cause' and that plaintiff take nothing, and from denial of a new trial. McCarran, J.…