Nevada family-law decisions, briefed for practice.

The appellant filed a notice of withdrawal of appeal, which the court treated as a motion for voluntary dismissal. Citing NRAP 42, the court found cause appearing and granted the motion, dismissing the appeal. The order…

This is an emergency pro se original petition for a writ of mandamus challenging the district court's purported refusal to resolve motions concerning enforcement of a child custody order on appeal in Docket Nos.…

The court addressed appellate jurisdiction as a threshold matter, noting that it "may only consider appeals authorized by statute or court rule." Brown v. MHC Stagecoach, LLC, 129 Nev. 348, 345, 301 P.3d 850, 851…

**Standard of review.** The Court of Appeals reviews an order declaring a litigant vexatious and restricting court access for an abuse of discretion, Jordan v. State ex rel. Dep't of Motor Vehicles & Pub. Safety, 121…

The supreme court conducted its standard jurisdictional review of the notice of appeal and the NRAP 3(g) documents and identified a jurisdictional defect: appellant failed to identify an appealable order under NRAP…

This is an order dismissing an appeal on the appellant's own motion; it contains no merits analysis, standard of review, or doctrinal discussion. Appellant filed a notice of withdrawal of appeal on August 11, 2026. The…

The Court of Appeals reviewed the denial of a motion styled as one for reconsideration or, alternatively, for relief under NRCP 60(b), analyzing each theory under the abuse-of-discretion standard. **Reconsideration.**…

The supreme court dismissed this pro se appeal on jurisdictional grounds without reaching the merits. The court identified a jurisdictional defect: appellant failed to show that the challenged district court order —…

The appeal arose under NRAP 3A(b)(3), which permits appeals of orders dissolving preliminary injunctions. The court addressed Ling's threshold challenges before reaching the merits. On mootness, the court held that…

This is an administrative order, not a merits disposition. The court identified a docketing redundancy: two appeals - Docket No. 92865 (docketed June 25, 2026) and Docket No. 92916 (docketed July 7, 2026) - arose from…

The Court of Appeals reviewed the district court's personal jurisdiction determination de novo. Fulbright & Jaworski LLP v. Eighth Jud. Dist. Ct., 131 Nev. 30, 35, 342 P.3d 997, 1001 (2015). As a threshold matter, the…

This is an order dismissing an appeal for failure to pay the required filing fee. The appeal was docketed on May 12, 2026, without payment of the requisite filing fee. See NRAP 3(e). The court recounts that, on the…

This is a pro se appeal from a decree of divorce out of the Fifth Judicial District Court, Nye County. The Supreme Court of Nevada dismissed the appeal for failure to prosecute following noncompliance with the court's…

The court addressed a threshold jurisdictional question sua sponte upon reviewing the notice of appeal and the documents before it. The appeal arose from a district court order denying motions to reconsider and vacate…

The supreme court reviewed the documents submitted and identified a jurisdictional defect: the order identified in the notice of appeal is not substantively appealable. The court reiterated the settled rule that it "may…

The court resolved the matter on jurisdictional grounds. Framing its authority under NRAP 3A(b), which allows appeals from judgments or orders of the district court, the court first observed that the record did not…

This is a pro se appeal from a district court decree of divorce out of the Eighth Judicial District Court, Family Division, Clark County (Judge Nadin Cutter). The Supreme Court of Nevada dismissed the appeal for failure…

This is an order dismissing a pro se appeal from a district court decree of divorce out of the Eighth Judicial District Court, Family Division, Clark County. The dismissal rests on the appellant's failure to file…

This is a pro se appeal from a post-divorce decree order awarding attorney fees. The dismissal rests on the appellant's repeated failure to file a conforming docketing statement despite serial notices and deadlines. The…

This is an order dismissing a pro se appeal from the Eighth Judicial District Court, Clark County (Judge Mari D. Parlade), for failure to prosecute and comply with the court's procedural directives. The court recounts…

**Standard of review.** The court reviews an order denying a motion to set aside a judgment for abuse of discretion, citing *Rodriguez v. Fiesta Palms, LLC*, 134 Nev. 654, 656, 428 P.3d 255, 257 (2018). The court also…

The court reviewed the district court's characterization of property under a mixed standard: a determination of property character is upheld if supported by substantial evidence, while a purely legal question, such as…

The Supreme Court entered a clerk's order dismissing the appeal pursuant to NRAP 42, based on appellant's unopposed motion for voluntary dismissal. The parties are to bear their own fees and costs. No substantive issues…

The court reiterated the familiar standards governing extraordinary writ relief under NRS 34.170 and NRS 34.330: the petitioner bears the burden to demonstrate that writ relief is warranted, and such relief is available…

The court reviewed the attorney-fee award for abuse of discretion, applying Logan v. Abe, 131 Nev. 260, 266, 350 P.3d 1139, 1143 (2015), and noting it will not reverse if substantial evidence supports the award. NRS…

The Court of Appeals reviewed the contempt order for abuse of discretion. Lewis v. Lewis, 132 Nev. 453, 456, 373 P.3d 878, 880 (2016). Although orders of contempt are not themselves appealable, the court had…

The court disposed of this appeal under NRAP 42. A stipulation to dismiss was filed, but it lacked the signature of respondent's counsel of record (identified in a footnote as attorney John T. Kelleher). Rather than…

This is an original writ proceeding seeking mandamus relief from a placement order in a protective custody action. The court set out the governing standards: a writ of mandamus is available to compel the performance of…

This is an administrative order consolidating duplicate pro se appeals arising from the same underlying termination-of-parental-rights proceedings in the Eighth Judicial District Court, Family Division. Both Docket No.…

This is a clerk's order of dismissal predicated on noncompliance with NRAP 3(d)(1), which requires that a notice of appeal be served on all parties to the district court action and "contain an acknowledgment of service…

This is a clerk's order dismissing an appeal and cross-appeal in a family-division matter pursuant to the parties' stipulation. The court acted under NRAP 42, which governs voluntary dismissal of appeals. The order…

The Clerk's order dismisses the appeal for failure to comply with the filing-fee requirements of NRAP 3(e) and the court's docketing notice. After docketing on February 24, 2026 without payment, the court issued a…

The court applied the standard framework governing extraordinary writ relief. A writ of mandamus is available to compel the performance of an act that the law requires as a duty resulting from an office, NRS 34.160, or…

The court disposed of the appeal under NRAP 42, which governs voluntary dismissal of appeals. The motion was unopposed, and the court granted it without analysis. No standard of review was applied and no doctrinal…

The Nevada Supreme Court dismissed this pro se appeal from a district court order modifying child support based on appellant's failure to comply with preliminary filing requirements. After issuing a January 2, 2026…

The Court of Appeals reviewed the district court's interpretation of caselaw de novo, citing LVMPD v. Blackjack Bonding, 131 Nev. 80, 85, 343 P.3d 608, 612 (2015). The court set out the governing framework for dividing…

This is a clerk's order of dismissal for failure to prosecute the appeal by paying the filing fee. The court recites the procedural sequence: a December 8, 2025 order directing the district court to rule on the pending…

The court dismissed this pro se civil appeal for failure to prosecute after the appellant did not file a transcript request form or certificate of no transcript request, and did not file a docketing statement, despite…

This is a clerk's order of dismissal for failure to comply with appellate filing prerequisites under NRAP 3(e) and (f). The appeal was docketed January 20, 2027, without the filing fee and without the case appeal…

The Supreme Court dismissed the appeal pursuant to the appellant's own notice of voluntary dismissal. The order contains no merits analysis, no standard of review, and no doctrinal discussion. The matter originated in…

The court dismissed sua sponte for lack of appellate jurisdiction. Citing Brown v. MHC Stagecoach, LLC, 129 Nev. 343, 345, 301 P.3d 850, 851 (2013), the court reiterated that it "may only consider appeals authorized by…

The court dismissed the appeal for lack of appellate jurisdiction, applying the finality requirement articulated in Lee v. GNLV Corp., 116 Nev. 424, 426, 996 P.2d 416, 417 (2000), which defines a final judgment as "one…

This is a dismissal order entered for failure to prosecute a pro se appeal from an order terminating parental rights. The court issued a briefing order on October 7, 2025, setting a December 8, 2025 deadline for the…

The court dismissed sua sponte for lack of appellate jurisdiction following preliminary review. Two independent jurisdictional defects supported dismissal. As to the March 28, 2025 order, the court applied the finality…

This is an unpublished order dismissing a pro se appeal from a district court order denying a motion to modify child support. The dismissal is procedural, not substantive. After reinstating briefing on December 10,…

The Court of Appeals reviewed the order denying modification of child support for an abuse of discretion, citing Backman v. Gelbman, 141 Nev., Adv. Op. 8, 565 P.3d 330, 333 (Ct. App. 2025), and noting that an abuse of…

The Court conducted a sua sponte jurisdictional review of the notice of appeal. Citing Brown v. MHC Stagecoach, LLC, 129 Nev. 343, 345, 301 P.3d 850, 851 (2013), the Court reiterated that it "may only consider appeals…

This is a clerk's order of dismissal for failure to pay the filing fee. After a September 9, 2025 order directing appellants to pay the filing fee and warning that noncompliance would result in dismissal, appellants did…

This is a clerk's order dismissing an appeal by stipulation of the parties under NRAP 27(c)(3). The order contains no substantive analysis, standard of review, or doctrinal discussion, because the dismissal rests solely…

The court addressed appellate jurisdiction over a post-judgment family-court order finding contempt, imposing sanctions, and awarding attorney fees and costs incurred in contempt and enforcement proceedings. The…