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15 results for “NRS 128.012(1)”
IN RE: PARENTAL RIGHTS AS TO S.A.T. (FAMILY)
Oct 2, 2025141 Nev. Adv. Op. 46 (2025) · 89258 · Nevada Supreme Court
Affirmed.Standard of review: questions of law are reviewed de novo; the district court's factual findings are reviewed for substantial evidence. In re Parental Rts. as to A.L., 130 Nev. 914, 918, 337 P.3d 758, 761 (2014). The…
IN RE: PARENTAL RIGHTS AS TO G.V. (FAMILY)
Apr 17, 202525-17434 · 89089 · Nevada (SCOTN/COA)
Reversed and remanded.Standard of review: questions of law are reviewed de novo; the district court's factual findings are reviewed for substantial evidence. In re Parental Rts. as to A.L., 130 Nev. 914, 918, 337 P.3d 758, 761 (2014). To…
IN RE: PARENTAL RIGHTS AS TO R.A.S.
Apr 24, 2025141 Nev. Adv. Op. 20 (2025) · 88174 · Nevada Supreme Court
Reversed.The Court began with a doctrinal framing distinguishing privately initiated termination petitions from those initiated by the state under NRS Chapter 128. While both fall within NRS Chapter 128 without statutory…
IN RE: GUARDIANSHIP OF N.M.
Sep 24, 2015131 Nev. Adv. Op. 75 (2015) · 64694 · Nevada Supreme Court
Petition for reconsideration granted; affirmed.Standard of review. Subject matter jurisdiction is reviewed de novo. Ogawa v. Ogawa, 125 Nev. 660, 667, 221 P.3d 699, 704 (2009). Factual findings are reviewed for abuse of discretion and upheld if supported by…
IN RE: PARENTAL RIGHTS AS TO L.R.S., J.M.S. AND J.L.S.
Sep 19, 2024140 Nev. Adv. Op. 62 (2024) · 86682 · Nevada Supreme Court
Reversed and remanded.Standard of review. The court reviewed conclusions of law, including statutory construction, de novo (Dewey v. Redev. Agency of Reno, 119 Nev. 87, 93-94, 64 P.3d 1070, 1075 (2003)), and factual findings for substantial…
IN RE: PARENTAL RIGHTS AS TO S.V.
Aug 11, 202222-25200 · 83008 · Nevada (SCOTN/COA)
Affirmed.The court applied the two-part termination framework under NRS 128.105(1) and In re Termination of Parental Rights as to N.J., 116 Nev. 790, 800-01, 8 P.3d 126, 132-33 (2000), requiring clear and convincing evidence of…
MATTER OF PARENTAL RIGHTS AS TO N.J. (TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS)
Aug 24, 2000116 Nev. 790, 8 P.3d 126 (2000) · 32436 · Nevada Supreme Court
Reversed and remanded for a new trial.The court rejected the jurisdictional/dispositional standard of Champagne v. Welfare Division, 100 Nev. 640, 691 P.2d 849 (1984), in light of legislative amendments to NRS 128.105, and adopted a best interest/parental…
In Re Parental Rights as to Cca
Apr 5, 2012128 Nev. 166, 273 P.3d 852 (2012) · 56723 · Nevada Supreme Court
Reversed and remanded.The Supreme Court of Nevada (Douglas, J., joined by Hardesty and Parraguirre, JJ.) addressed "the need for the district court to make express findings of fact in its written order or on the record, when determining…
MATTER OF PARENTAL RIGHTS AS TO CARRON (TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS)
Apr 9, 1998114 Nev. 370, 956 P.2d 785 (1998) · 30377 · Nevada Supreme Court
Affirmed.The power to terminate parental rights is an 'awesome' power that the court scrutinizes carefully. Champagne v. Welfare Division, 100 Nev. 640, 645, 691 P.2d 849, 853 (1984). Termination requires both jurisdictional…
LOPEZ VS. SERBELLON PORTILLO (CHILD CUSTODY)
Aug 6, 2020136 Nev. Adv. Op. 54, 469 P.3d 181 (2020) · 79549 · Nevada Supreme Court
Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded.The Court reviewed the district court's interpretation of NRS 3.2203(3)(b) de novo. Amaya v. Guerrero Rivera, 135 Nev. 208, 210, 444 P.3d 450, 452 (2019). Under 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(27)(J) and NRS 3.2203, a state juvenile…
MATTER OF PARENTAL RIGHTS AS TO BOW (TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS)
Jan 4, 1997113 Nev. 141; 930 P.2d 1128 · 27315 · Nevada Supreme Court
Affirmed.Affirming termination, the court applied the Champagne framework requiring clear and convincing evidence of both jurisdictional grounds (a specific fault or condition of the parent) and dispositional grounds (the…
MATTER OF PARENTAL RIGHTS AS TO J.L.N. (TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS)
Oct 18, 2002118 Nev. 621, 55 P.3d 955 (2002) · 38100 · Nevada Supreme Court
Reversed. ("we reverse the order of the district court terminating Diana's parental rights.")The court reversed an order terminating an incarcerated mother's parental rights, holding the record lacked substantial evidence of best interest or parental fault. The parent-child relationship is a fundamental liberty…
MATTER OF PARENTAL RIGHTS AS TO Q.L.R. (TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS)
Sep 18, 2002118 Nev. 602, 54 P.3d 56 (2002) · 38221 · Nevada Supreme Court
Reversed. ("we reverse the district court's order terminating Roger's parental rights.")This case of first impression held that incarceration does not, as a matter of law, support a determination that a parent intended to abandon a minor child, and reversed termination for lack of substantial evidence.…
DALY VS. DALY (TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS)
Mar 6, 1986102 Nev. 66, 715 P.2d 56 (1986) · 15423 · Nevada Supreme Court
Affirmed.Applying the clear and convincing evidence standard adopted in Cloninger v. Russell, 98 Nev. 597, 655 P.2d 528 (1982) (following Santosky v. Kramer, 455 U.S. 745 (1982)), and the two-part jurisdictional/dispositional…
IN THE MATTER OF PARENTAL RIGHTS AS TO DECK (TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS)
Jan 4, 1997113 Nev. 124; 930 P.2d 760 · 27260 · Nevada Supreme Court
Affirmed.Affirming termination of both parents' rights, the court applied the two-part Champagne framework requiring clear and convincing evidence of jurisdictional grounds (a specific fault or condition of the parent) and…
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