Case library
Nevada family-law decisions, briefed for practice.
Practitioner summaries with key holdings, posture, disposition, and the statutes cited - up front, where you need them. Every summary links to the full opinion.
Case Library = case briefs of the decisions themselves. For long-form explainers of the governing law, Guides; for the exact quotable passages, verified verbatim, the Canon.
2 results for “NRS 22.010(8)” in Custody & Relocation
GONZALEZ VS. VELAZQUEZ-GONZALEZ (CHILD CUSTODY)
Feb 27, 202626-09362 · 90570-COA · Nevada (SCOTN/COA)
Reversed in part (contempt for changing the dental appointment, including the $500 sanction) and affirmed in part (all remaining judgments).Standard of review. The court reviewed the custody determination for a clear abuse of discretion, Ellis v. Carucci, 123 Nev. 145, 149, 161 P.3d 239, 241 (2007), noting that an abuse occurs when a decision "is not…
STEVENS VS. LANEY (CHILD CUSTODY)
Aug 21, 202691371-COA · Nevada (SCOTN/COA)
Affirmed in part and dismissed in part. ("Accordingly, we ORDER the judgment of the district court AFFIRMED IN PART and DISMISS IN PART this appeal.")**Standards of review.** The court identified competing framings of the reunification issue and conducted a two-part inquiry: (1) whether Kayden's Law impacts the custody order, and (2) whether the district court's…
Every summary is independently verified against the source opinion; summaries are informational research aids, not legal advice, and no substitute for reading the decision. Topic groupings are derived automatically from each case’s category tag and cited statutes; a case may appear under two topics.