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Twelve topics, ordered by what actually bites.
Twelve topics, every citation a stored-corpus token, ordered by what actually bites — the omitted-asset award leads because it is the trap Nevada wrote sharpest. In-scope issues route to working tools; out-of-scope issues get honest routed-out cards naming the official path, including the 2025 c 239 adoption recodification told straight.
Topic 1
The omitted-asset award: hide it and the court can hand it to your spouse
Nevada's disclosure rule carries the sharpest sanction on this platform: intentionally leave a material asset off the Financial Disclosure Form and the rule's own menu includes AWARDING THAT ASSET TO THE OPPOSING PARTY as separate property — an unequal division the omission itself justifies. Disclosure discipline is property strategy here, and clauses claiming an omitted asset 'stays with its holder' say the opposite of the law.
Topic 2
Six weeks in, no waiting period out — what 'fastest decree state' really means
Nevada's residency runs six weeks — the nation's shortest — and NOTHING in ch. 125 imposes a cooling-off period after filing: a default can proceed on affidavit and an agreed joint petition moves at the clerk's pace. But the six weeks is a jurisdictional GATE (file early and invite dismissal), and the disclosure clock still runs — fast is real; instant is a mill's promise.
Topic 3
Nevada's child support formula lives in a REGULATION — and that matters
The tiers — 16/8/4 percent of the obligor's gross monthly income across the $6,000 and $10,000 bands for one child, scaling by child count — sit in NAC 425.140, a regulation adopted under the NRS 425.620 delegation, not in a statute. This platform renders that provenance honestly (regulation under delegation) and computes the bands exactly as written, with the AOC's annual low-income schedule as the published instrument beneath them.
Topic 4
The GFDF clock: 30 days from service, sixteen categories, a 24-hour trap
Each party files AND serves the General Financial Disclosure Form within 30 days of service of the summons and complaint. High-income, business-owner and million-dollar cases opt into the Detailed form. Sixteen categories of documents ride along — and the supplement duty compresses from 14 days to 24 HOURS when a hearing sits close. The disclosure spine is where Nevada cases are won, lost, and sanctioned.
Topic 5
The joint-petition summary divorce: seven conditions, one honest exit door
Agree on everything and Nevada offers a lane with no summons, no answer, and no waiting period: the joint petition. Seven statutory conditions gate it — jurisdiction, grounds, children resolved, property resolved, support waived or agreed, procedural waivers, and both spouses wanting it. The honest caveat rides along: EITHER spouse can revoke before the decree enters, terminating the proceeding.
Topic 6
Custody in Nevada: joint by default, twelve factors, one hard presumption
Parents hold joint legal and physical custody until a court orders otherwise, with a statutory preference for keeping it joint. Twelve best-interest factors drive contested calls — and one finding changes everything: domestic violence proven by CLEAR AND CONVINCING evidence raises a rebuttable presumption against custody for the perpetrator. The 146-day threshold does the arithmetic under the joint preference.
Topic 7
Nevada custody orders draft in ABSOLUTE terms — and carry a notice in capitals
Two drafting rules are statutory, not stylistic: custody rights must be defined in ABSOLUTE terms ('reasonable visitation' is the vagueness the statute forbids — write days, times, exchanges), and every custody order carries the abduction notice IN CAPITAL LETTERS routing the category D felony statute. This platform's filing check blocks the first and flags the second.
Topic 8
Relocation has criminal teeth: consent or petition — never just move
A custodial parent relocating needs the other parent's WRITTEN consent or a court's permission — and the statute routes violations to the category D felony provision. The petition runs a two-step: a threshold showing (a sensible, good-faith reason · the child's best interests · an actual advantage), then the weighing factors. Joint custodians petition for PRIMARY custody to relocate at all.
Topic 9
Community property, equal unless COMPELLING — Nevada's division grammar
Nevada divides community property EQUALLY to the extent practicable; unequal division takes a WRITTEN compelling reason. Alimony runs just-and-equitable on the statute's own factor list. And the division rule shares a nervous system with the disclosure rule: the omitted-asset award is an unequal division the omission itself justifies.
Topic 10
Six protection-order lanes — and a 24-hour firearms clock
Nevada runs six order types: domestic violence (ex parte temporary up to 45 days; extended up to 2 years), stalking/harassment, workplace (the employer files), child protection, high-risk 'red flag,' and Canadian-order recognition. An extended DV order bans firearm acquisition — and surrender of possessed firearms happens within 24 HOURS of service, receipts on the clock.
Topic 11
Annulment's equity catch-all — Nevada's widest 'never valid' door
Beyond void marriages and the classic voidable grounds (nonage, want of understanding, fraud), Nevada writes an equity catch-all: ANY cause that would annul a contract in equity can annul the marriage. And a marriage SOLEMNIZED IN NEVADA can be annulled with no residency period at all — the marriage's Nevada situs is the hook.
Topic 12
Indian child in the case? Nevada's ch. 125E machinery attaches
Nevada's 2023 Indian-child custody chapter runs a mandatory good-faith inquiry: reason to know the child is an Indian child triggers notice to the tribe, a transfer right to tribal court, the ACTIVE EFFORTS standard (above reasonable efforts), qualified-expert-witness requirements, and placement preferences favoring extended family and tribal homes. This platform screens the question and routes to the sovereign's own door.
What's covered — and what routes out, honestly
dissolution router + qualifier + learn
summary qualifier + tracker + learn
parenting engine + filing check + learn
tier engine + learn
disclosure engine + filing check + learn
property organizer + learn
relocation organizer + learn
safety router + learn
ICWA screen + learn
qualifier parentage door (NRS 126.051; the tiers apply)
RECODIFIED by 2025 c 239: the old ch. 127 is repealed/recodified into NRS chs. 127A–127G (this platform's corpus carries the truthful stubs AND the 127A anchors — e.g. NRS 127A.200, district-court jurisdiction). Agency/identified/close-family adoptions run on the official and agency path with counsel; this platform routes and never drafts here.
NRS ch. 128 stakes are counsel territory — organizers stop at the door; the corpus carries the anchors (128.005/.105) for honest reference.
The statewide guardianship rules and the district courts' guardianship practice control — routed to the court-run self-help resources.
NRS ch. 130 program machinery runs through the district attorney/DWSS child-support offices — routed to the official program.