Family Law

Family Law in Las Vegas, Nevada

Family cases often involve children, a home, and finances all at once. If you are facing a divorce, a custody question, a support issue, or another family matter in Southern Nevada, O’Reilly Law Group can talk with you about it. Family law calls and requests from this page go to Helping Hand Family and Divorce Attorneys: call (702) 605-6347 or request a consultation with Helping Hand online.

The Family Court in Clark County

Nevada law establishes a family court as a division of the district court in each judicial district that includes a county whose population is 100,000 or more (NRS 3.0105). Clark County makes up the Eighth Judicial District (NRS 3.010), so family cases here are heard in the family division of the Eighth Judicial District Court.

Under NRS 3.223, the family court has original, exclusive jurisdiction over proceedings brought under a list of Nevada statutes, including these chapters:

• Dissolution of marriage. NRS Chapter 125.
• Obligation of support. NRS Chapter 125B.
• Custody and visitation. NRS Chapter 125C.
• Parentage. NRS Chapter 126.

The same statute gives the family court and the justice court concurrent jurisdiction over actions for a temporary or extended order for protection against domestic violence, except as otherwise provided in NRS 4.370.

Custody Mediation

In a county whose population is 700,000 or more, NRS 3.475 requires the district court to establish a program of mandatory mediation in cases that involve the custody or visitation of a child. The court may exclude a case for good cause, which the statute says includes a history of child abuse or domestic violence by one of the parties, parties already in private mediation, or a party living outside the court’s jurisdiction.

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