Las Vegas, NV
Divorce and separation Lawyer at Las Vegas, NV
Practice Areas: Divorce & Separation, Family ... +8 more
OUTCOME: Prevailed on appeal
Successfully defended an award of arrearages for a McCarty-gap former military spouse, and prevented the opponent from shortchanging the former spouse by over-withoholding income taxes from the militar ... y retired pay.
OUTCOME: Prevailed on appeal
Nevada Supreme Court accepted our argument that the husband's signature of both spouses' names on various documents did not actually transfer any property interest to the wife, and that the trial court ... had an absolute duty to return to our client his premarital property.
OUTCOME: Prevailed on appeal
Nevada Supreme Court accepted our position and affirmed a decision that expenses of visitation incurred by the non-custodial parent as the result of the custodial parent's move from the jurisdiction ca ... n be considered by the court pursuant to NRS 125B.080(9)(i) to justify a downward deviation or an offset against the amount of child support specified by the formula.
OUTCOME: Prevailed on appeal
Nevada Supreme Court accepted our argument that the husband, who had been named the father of the minor child by the trial court, should be removed from the child's birth certificate, overcoming diffic ... ult and technical issues dealing with equitable estoppel, paternity, presumptions, and conflicts of laws.
OUTCOME: Prevailed on appeal
Obtained reversal of a decision that had taken custody of a young girl from our client, the custodial mother. The Nevada Supreme Court decision held that the moving party in a custody proceeding must s ... how that the circumstances of the parties have materially changed "since the most recent custodial order," and events that took place before that proceeding are inadmissible to establish a change of circumstances.
OUTCOME: Prevailed on appeal
Nevada Supreme Court agreed with our argument that the award to the wife of "permanent alimony," as used in the parties' divorce decree, was intended to survive the wife's remarriage, where the alimony ... payments were, in substance, a property settlement, put into place to compensate the wife for the wife's interest in husband's military pension, which could not be directly paid to her by reason of technical military regulations.
OUTCOME: Prevailed on appeal
Nevada Supreme Court reversed, at our urging, a trial court order refusing to set aside a property distribution under NRCP 60(b), where a private pension had been greatly undervalued in the original di ... vorce proceedings. The Opinion required our client receive a fair distribution of the community property, and required entry of a QDRO so that our client received the survivorship benefits.
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