Divorce in Nevada

Nicknamed The Silver State, Nevada has a significantly high divorce rate, with most marriages not surviving past their silver anniversary.

You can file a divorce petition at the district court in any county in Nevada where:

• Your spouse lives /can be located
• You live
• The cause of the divorce happened even if none of you has resided in Nevada before; or
• You and your spouse last lived

Before filing for divorce in Nevada, you or your spouse must have lived in the state for at least six weeks.¹

Divorce from the bonds of matrimony may be obtained for any of these reasons:

1. The both of you have lived separately and apart for one year without cohabitation
2. Incompatibility
3. Insanity that existed two years before the start of the action²

Nevada is a community property state, and only property acquired during the divorce is subject to division. Marital property in Nevada is distributed equally (50/50), including debt. Nevada divorce laws also consider economic misconduct during the property division case.³

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¹NV ST § 125.020

²NV ST § 125.010

³NV ST § 125.150