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18 results for “NRS 128.105(2)(d)”
WASHOE COUNTY DSS VS. KORY L.G. (TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS)
Feb 28, 2013129 Nev. 125, 295 P.3d 589 (2013) · 60071 · Nevada Supreme Court
Affirmed.By the Court, Douglas, J. (Pickering, C.J., and Gibbons, Hardesty, Parraguirre, Cherry, and Saitta, JJ., concurring; en banc). The court addressed whether a nonoffending parent - whose child was placed in state custody…
Tammila G. v. State, Department of Human Resources
Dec 28, 2006122 Nev. 1418, 148 P.3d 759 (2006) · 46438 · Nevada Supreme Court
Affirmed.Standard of review: A party petitioning to terminate parental rights must establish by clear and convincing evidence that (1) termination is in the child's best interest and (2) parental fault exists, citing NRS 128.105…
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…
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…
IN RE: PARENTAL RIGHTS AS TO N.D.L. (FAMILY)
May 15, 202525-21908 · 89361 · Nevada (SCOTN/COA)
Affirmed.The court applied the familiar two-prong termination framework under NRS 128.105(1) and In re Termination of Parental Rts. as to N.J., 116 Nev. 790, 800-01, 8 P.3d 126, 132-33 (2000): clear and convincing evidence of…
In Re Nj
Dec 24, 2009125 Nev. 835, 221 P.3d 1255 (2009) · 51125 · Nevada Supreme Court
Affirmed.The court resolved two questions of first impression concerning the interplay between Nevada parental-termination law and the ICWA, 25 U.S.C. §§ 1901-63 (2006): (1) which burden of proof governs when both state and…
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…
IN RE: PARENTAL RIGHTS AS TO T.F.F. (FAMILY)
Jun 18, 202525-26942 · 89626 · Nevada (SCOTN/COA)
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).…
IN RE: PARENTAL RIGHTS AS TO S.L., N.R.B., H.R.B., W.C.B. C/W 71889
Aug 2, 2018134 Nev. Adv. Op. 59, 422 P.3d 1253 (2018) · 71889 · Nevada Supreme Court
Affirmed.Standard of review: The Court reviews questions of law de novo and the district court's factual findings for substantial evidence, citing In re Parental Rights as to A.L., 130 Nev. 914, 918, 337 P.3d 758, 761 (2014).…
IN RE: PARENTAL RIGHTS AS TO S.L., N.R.B., H.R.B., W.C.B. C/W 71889
Aug 2, 2018134 Nev. Adv. Op. 59, 422 P.3d 1253 (2018) · 71873 · Nevada Supreme Court
Affirmed.The court applied the familiar two-part termination framework: clear and convincing evidence of (1) at least one ground of parental fault and (2) that termination serves the child's best interests. NRS 128.105(1); In re…
IN RE: WESTFALL
Aug 14, 202525-35742 · 88416 · Nevada (SCOTN/COA)
Affirmed.The court applied the two-prong termination framework of NRS 128.105(1) and In re Termination of Parental Rts. as to N.J., 116 Nev. 790, 800-01, 8 P.3d 126, 132-33 (2000), requiring clear and convincing evidence of (1)…
IN RE: PARENTAL RIGHTS AS TO A.D.L. AND C.L.B., JR.
Oct 5, 2017133 Nev. Adv. Op. 72 (2017) · 69047 · Nevada Supreme Court
Reversed.The court reviewed the district court's findings of fact for substantial evidence, applying close scrutiny because termination of parental rights is "tantamount to imposition of a civil death penalty." In re Parental…
IN RE: PARENTAL RIGHTS AS TO J.B.J.
May 14, 202424-16818 · 86116 · Nevada (SCOTN/COA)
Affirmed.Standard of review: Questions of law are reviewed de novo, and the district court's factual findings are reviewed for substantial evidence - "that which 'a reasonable person may accept as adequate' to support a…
IN RE: PARENTAL RIGHTS AS TO G.J.M., F.M.
Sep 15, 202222-28921 · 83928 · Nevada (SCOTN/COA)
Affirmed.The court reviewed a termination order under the familiar two-prong framework of 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): clear and convincing…
WASHOE CTY. HUMAN SERVS. AGENCY VS. DIST. CT. (C.-S.)
Dec 29, 202222-40818 · 83422 · Nevada Supreme Court
Petition denied.The court (Hardesty, C.J., for an en banc court) addressed two threshold issues — writ jurisdiction and mootness — before reaching a substantive due process question. Writ jurisdiction. Citing NRS 34.170, In re William…
St. Mary v. Damon
Oct 3, 2013129 Nev. 647, 309 P.3d 1027 (2013) · 58315 · Nevada Supreme Court
Reversed and remanded with instructions.The court reviewed the legal questions de novo, citing State Indus. Ins. Sys. v. United Exposition Servs. Co., 109 Nev. 28, 30, 846 P.2d 294, 295 (1998) ("Questions of law are reviewed de novo."). Parentage is…
IN RE: PARENTAL RIGHTS AS TO R.B.J. (FAMILY)
Sep 10, 202525-39690 · 89225 · Nevada (SCOTN/COA)
Affirmed.The court reviewed the constitutional challenge to NRS 128.109 de novo, citing Hernandez v. Bennett-Haron, 128 Nev. 580, 586, 287 P.3d 305, 310 (2012), and applied the presumption of validity from Flamingo Paradise…
In re Parental Rights as to A.L.
Nov 13, 2014130 Nev. Adv. Op. 91 (2014) · 63311 · Nevada Supreme Court
Reversed and remanded.The Nevada Supreme Court, sitting en banc in an opinion by Justice Parraguirre, reversed a district court order terminating a mother's parental rights and remanded for a new trial, holding that DFS confessed error under…
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