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Section 125.181 – Summary proceeding for divorce: Conditions

May 14, 2021 | Family Law, Nevada

A marriage may be dissolved by the summary procedure for divorce set forth in NRS 125.181 to 125.184, inclusive, when all of the following conditions exist at the time the proceeding is commenced:

1. Either party has met the jurisdictional requirements of NRS 125.020.
2. The spouses have lived separate and apart for 1 year without cohabitation or they are incompatible.
3. There are no minor children of the relationship of the parties born before or during the marriage or adopted by the parties during the marriage and a wife, to her knowledge, is not pregnant, or the parties have executed an agreement as to the custody of any children and setting forth the amount and manner of their support.
4. There is no community or joint property or the parties have executed an agreement setting forth the division of community property and the assumption of liabilities of the community, if any, and have executed any deeds, certificates of title, bills of sale or other evidence of transfer necessary to effectuate the agreement.
5. The parties waive any rights to spousal support or the parties have executed an agreement setting forth the amount and manner of spousal support.
6. The parties waive their respective rights to written notice of entry of the decree of divorce, to appeal, to request findings of fact and conclusions of law and to move for a new trial.
7. The parties desire that the court enter a decree of divorce.

NRS 125.181

Added to NRS by 1983, 415 [Ch. 174]; A 1987, 1180 [Ch. 520]; 2017, 768 [Ch. 167]
Amended by 2017, Ch. 167,ยง28, eff. 7/1/2017.
Added to NRS by 1983, 415; A 1987, 1180