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3 results for “NRCP 60(b)(1)” in Retirement Division
CARLSON VS. CARLSON (RETIREMENT DIVISION)
Jul 2, 1992108 Nev. 358, 832 P.2d 380 (1992) · 22510 · Nevada Supreme Court
Reversed and remanded (order vacating the domestic relations referee's recommendations reversed; remanded for further proceedings).Motions under NRCP 60(b) lie within the district court's sound discretion and are reviewed for abuse of discretion; the rule is liberally construed to redress injustices resulting from excusable neglect or the wrongs of…
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…
WALSH VS. WALSH (RETIREMENT DIVISION)
Jun 25, 1987103 Nev. 287, 738 P.2d 117 (1987) · 17776 · Nevada Supreme Court
Reversed.The court construed the divorce decree rather than modifying it (modification being barred by the six-month limit of NRCP 60(b); see Kramer v. Kramer, 96 Nev. 759, 616 P.2d 395 (1980)). Applying the settled rule that…
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