Nevada family law

Nevada divorce is no-fault at its core

NRS 125.010 lists the causes for divorce — incompatibility carries the modern docket, alongside the statute's older enumerated grounds. Residency and the district courts' exclusive family jurisdiction frame where the case runs.

NRS 125.010

Nevada is a community-property state

Property acquired after marriage by either spouse or both is COMMUNITY PROPERTY unless an exception applies — a written agreement, a decree, or the statute's own carve-outs (NRS 123.130's separate-property definitions). Chapter 123 is loaded whole.

NRS 123.220; NRS 123.130

The division norm is EQUAL — to the extent practicable

At divorce the court SHALL, to the extent practicable, make an EQUAL disposition of the community property — with written findings of a compelling reason for any unequal disposition. Alimony, by contrast, is what appears JUST AND EQUITABLE. Nevada splits the two standards where Washington merges them — and applying either to a real marriage is judgment.

NRS 125.150(1)

The summary-proceeding door exists — with conditions

A marriage may be dissolved by the summary procedure when ALL of the statute's conditions exist — the joint, condition-gated short path (NRS 125.181-125.184). Whether a couple's facts satisfy every condition is exactly the kind of judgment this platform routes.

NRS 125.181

Child support is a statutory duty

Parents have a duty to provide the child necessary maintenance, health care, education and support (NRS 125B.020). The obligation's amount runs on Nevada's guidelines machinery; applying it to a family is judgment.

NRS 125B.020

Custody is pure legal judgment — best interests, with named presumptions

The custody standard is the BEST INTERESTS of the child (NRS 125C.0035), with the statute's own factor list — and its own presumptions when a court finds a parent or custody-seeker is a perpetrator of domestic violence or has committed abduction. Nothing on this platform drafts a custody document or weighs a factor.

NRS 125C.0035