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NV Rev Stat § 128.093 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 128 - Termination of Parental Rights|NRS 128.093 - Testimony of qualified expert witness required in proceedings to terminate parental rights of parent of Indian child.

  1. Any proceedings to terminate the parental rights of the parent of an Indian child pursuant to this chapter must include the testimony of at least one qualified expert witness as provided in the Indian Child Welfare Act.  2. As used in this section, "qualified expert witness" includes, without limitation:  (a) An Indian person who has personal knowledge about the Indian child’s tribe and its customs related to raising a child and the organization of the family; and  (b) A person who has:  (1) Substantial experience and training regarding the customs of Indian tribes related to raising a child; and  (2) Extensive knowledge of the social values and cultural influences of Indian tribes.  (Added to NRS by 1995, 782)
NV Rev Stat § 128.095 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 128 - Termination of Parental Rights|NRS 128.095 - When putative father presumed to have intended to abandon child.

If the putative father of a child fails to acknowledge the child or petition to have his parental rights established in a court of competent jurisdiction before a hearing on a petition to terminate his parental rights, he is presumed to have intended to abandon the child.  (Added to NRS by 1975, 964; A 1979, 1284)
NV Rev Stat § 128.097 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 128 - Termination of Parental Rights|NRS 128.097 - Presumption of abandonment of child by parent.

If a parent of a child:  1. Engages in conduct that violates any provision of NRS 200.463, 200.4631, 200.464 or 200.465; or  2. Voluntarily delivers a child to a provider of emergency services pursuant to NRS 432B.630,  the parent is presumed to have abandoned the child.  (Added to NRS by 1989, 1186; A 2001, 1264; 2005, 89; 2013, 1856)
NV Rev Stat § 128.100 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 128 - Termination of Parental Rights|NRS 128.100 - Appointment of attorney to represent child in proceeding concerning termination or restoration of parental rights; appointment of attorney to represent parent; compensation of attorney.

  1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, in any proceeding for terminating parental rights, or any rehearing or appeal thereon, or any proceeding for restoring parental rights, the court may appoint an attorney to represent the child as his or her counsel. The child may be represented by an attorney at all stages of any proceedings for terminating parental rights. If the child is represented by an attorney, the attorney has the same authority and rights as an attorney representing a party to the proceedings.  2. In any proceeding for the termination of parental rights to a child who has been placed outside of his or her home pursuant to chapter 432B of NRS, or any rehearing or appeal thereon, or any proceeding for restoring parental rights to such a child, the court shall appoint an attorney to represent the child as his or her counsel. The child shall be deemed to be a party to any proceeding described in this section and must be represented by an attorney at all stages of such proceedings. The attorney representing the child has the same authority and rights as an attorney representing any other party to the proceedings.  3. If the parent or parents of the child desire to be represented by counsel, but are indigent, the court may appoint an attorney for them.  4. Each attorney appointed under the provisions of this section is entitled to the same compensation and expenses from the county as provided in NRS 7.125 and 7.135 for attorneys appointed to represent persons charged with crimes.  [10:161:1953] — (NRS A 1981, 1755; 1987, 1301; 1999, 2027; 2001, 1708; 2007, 91; 2017, 1289)
NV Rev Stat § 128.105 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 128 - Termination of Parental Rights|NRS 128.105 - Grounds for terminating parental rights: Considerations; required findings.

  1. The primary consideration in any proceeding to terminate parental rights must be whether the best interests of the child will be served by the termination. An order of the court for the termination of parental rights must be made in light of the considerations set forth in this section and NRS 128.106 to 128.109, inclusive, and based on evidence and include a finding that:  (a) The best interests of the child would be served by the termination of parental rights; and  (b) The conduct of the parent or parents was the basis for a finding made pursuant to subsection 3 of NRS 432B.393 or demonstrated at least one of the following:  (1) Abandonment of the child;  (2) Neglect of the child;  (3) Unfitness of the parent;  (4) Failure of parental adjustment;  (5) Risk of serious physical, mental or emotional injury to the child if the child were returned to, or remains in, the home of his or her parent or parents;  (6) Only token efforts by the parent or parents:  (I) To support or communicate with the child;  (II) To prevent neglect of the child;  (III) To avoid being an unfit parent; or  (IV) To eliminate the risk of serious physical, mental or emotional injury to the child;  (7) With respect to termination of the parental rights of one parent, the abandonment by that parent; or  (8) The child was conceived as a result of a sexual assault for which the natural parent was convicted.  2. Before making a finding pursuant to subparagraph (5) of paragraph (b) of subsection 1, if the child has been out of the care of his or her parent or guardian for at least 12 consecutive months, the court shall consider, without limitation:  (a) The placement options for the child;  (b) The age of the child; and  (c) The developmental, cognitive and psychological needs of the child.  (Added to NRS by 1975, 964; A 1981, 1755; 1985, 244; 1987, 173, 210; 1995, 215; 1999, 2027; 2015, 1184; 2017, 752)
NV Rev Stat § 128.106 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 128 - Termination of Parental Rights|NRS 128.106 - Specific considerations in determining neglect by or unfitness of parent.

  1. In determining neglect by or unfitness of a parent, the court shall consider, without limitation, the following conditions which may diminish suitability as a parent:  (a) Emotional illness, mental illness or mental deficiency of the parent which renders the parent consistently unable to care for the immediate and continuing physical or psychological needs of the child for extended periods of time. The provisions contained in NRS 128.109 apply to the case if the child has been placed outside his or her home pursuant to chapter 432B of NRS.  (b) Conduct toward a child of a physically, emotionally or sexually cruel or abusive nature.  (c) Conduct that violates any provision of NRS 200.463, 200.4631, 200.464 or 200.465.  (d) Excessive use of intoxicating liquors, controlled substances or dangerous drugs which renders the parent consistently unable to care for the child.  (e) Repeated or continuous failure by the parent, although physically and financially able, to provide the child with adequate food, clothing, shelter, education or other care and control necessary for the child’s physical, mental and emotional health and development, but a person who, legitimately practicing his or her religious beliefs, does not provide specified medical treatment for a child is not for that reason alone a negligent parent.  (f) Conviction of the parent for commission of a felony, if the facts of the crime are of such a nature as to indicate the unfitness of the parent to provide adequate care and control to the extent necessary for the child’s physical, mental or emotional health and development.  (g) Whether the child, a sibling of the child or another child in the care of the parent suffered a physical injury resulting in substantial bodily harm, a near fatality or fatality for which the parent has no reasonable explanation and for which there is evidence that such physical injury or death would not have occurred absent abuse or neglect of the child by the parent.  (h) Inability of appropriate public or private agencies to reunite the family despite reasonable efforts on the part of the agencies.  2. As used in this section, "near fatality" has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 432B.175.  (Added to NRS by 1981, 1751; A 1989, 1187; 1995, 361; 2005, 89; 2013, 1856; 2015, 1185)
NV Rev Stat § 128.107 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 128 - Termination of Parental Rights|NRS 128.107 - Specific considerations where child is not in physical custody of parent.

If a child is not in the physical custody of the parent or parents, the court, in determining whether parental rights should be terminated, shall consider, without limitation:  1. The services provided or offered to the parent or parents to facilitate a reunion with the child.  2. The physical, mental or emotional condition and needs of the child and the child’s desires regarding the termination, if the court determines the child is of sufficient capacity to express his or her desires.  3. The effort the parent or parents have made to adjust their circumstances, conduct or conditions to make it in the child’s best interest to return the child to his or her home after a reasonable length of time, including but not limited to:  (a) The payment of a reasonable portion of substitute physical care and maintenance, if financially able;  (b) The maintenance of regular visitation or other contact with the child which was designed and carried out in a plan to reunite the child with the parent or parents; and  (c) The maintenance of regular contact and communication with the custodian of the child.  4. Whether additional services would be likely to bring about lasting parental adjustment enabling a return of the child to the parent or parents within a predictable period.  For purposes of this section, the court shall disregard incidental conduct, contributions, contacts and communications.  (Added to NRS by 1981, 1751; A 1987, 173)
NV Rev Stat § 128.108 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 128 - Termination of Parental Rights|NRS 128.108 - Specific considerations where child has been placed in foster home.

If a child is in the custody of a public or private agency and has been placed and resides in a foster home and the custodial agency institutes proceedings pursuant to this chapter regarding the child, with an ultimate goal of having the child’s foster parent or parents adopt the child, the court shall consider whether the child has become integrated into the foster family to the extent that the child’s familial identity is with that family, and whether the foster family is able and willing permanently to treat the child as a member of the family. The court shall consider, without limitation:  1. The love, affection and other emotional ties existing between the child and the parents, and the child’s ties with the foster family.  2. The capacity and disposition of the child’s parents from whom the child was removed as compared with that of the foster family to give the child love, affection and guidance and to continue the education of the child.  3. The capacity and disposition of the parents from whom the child was removed as compared with that of the foster family to provide the child with food, clothing and medical care and to meet other physical, mental and emotional needs of the child.  4. The length of time the child has lived in a stable, satisfactory foster home and the desirability of the child continuing to live in that environment.  5. The permanence as a family unit of the foster family.  6. The moral fitness, physical and mental health of the parents from whom the child was removed as compared with that of the foster family.  7. The experiences of the child in the home, school and community, both when with the parents from whom the child was removed and when with the foster family.  8. Any other factor considered by the court to be relevant to a particular placement of the child.  (Added to NRS by 1981, 1752)
NV Rev Stat § 128.109 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 128 - Termination of Parental Rights|NRS 128.109 - Determination of conduct of parent; presumptions.

  1. If a child has been placed outside of his or her home pursuant to chapter 432B of NRS, the following provisions must be applied to determine the conduct of the parent:  (a) If the child has resided outside of his or her home pursuant to that placement for 14 months of any 20 consecutive months, it must be presumed that the parent or parents have demonstrated only token efforts to care for the child as set forth in subparagraph (6) of paragraph (b) of subsection 1 of NRS 128.105.  (b) If the parent or parents fail to comply substantially with the terms and conditions of a plan to reunite the family within 6 months after the date on which the child was placed or the plan was commenced, whichever occurs later, that failure to comply is evidence of failure of parental adjustment as set forth in subparagraph (4) of paragraph (b) of subsection 1 of NRS 128.105.  2. If a child has been placed outside of his or her home pursuant to chapter 432B of NRS and has resided outside of his or her home pursuant to that placement for 14 months of any 20 consecutive months, the best interests of the child must be presumed to be served by the termination of parental rights.  3. The presumptions specified in subsections 1 and 2 must not be overcome or otherwise affected by evidence of failure of the State to provide services to the family.  (Added to NRS by 1987, 172; A 1993, 2690; 1995, 361; 1999, 2028; 2015, 1185)
NV Rev Stat § 128.110 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 128 - Termination of Parental Rights|NRS 128.110 - Order terminating parental rights; preference for placement of child with certain relatives and siblings of child; period for completion of search for relative.

  1. Whenever the procedure described in this chapter has been followed, and upon finding grounds for the termination of parental rights pursuant to NRS 128.105 at a hearing upon the petition, the court shall make a written order, signed by the judge presiding in the court, judicially depriving the parent or parents of the custody and control of, and terminating the parental rights of the parent or parents with respect to the child, and declaring the child to be free from such custody or control, and placing the custody and control of the child in some person or agency qualified by the laws of this State to provide services and care to children, or to receive any children for placement. The termination of parental rights pursuant to this section does not terminate the right of the child to inherit from his or her parent or parents, except that the right to inherit terminates if the child is adopted as provided in NRS 127.160.  2. If the child is placed in the custody and control of a person or agency qualified by the laws of this State to receive children for placement, the person or agency, in seeking to place the child:  (a) May give preference to the placement of the child with any person related within the fifth degree of consanguinity to the child whom the person or agency finds suitable and able to provide proper care and guidance for the child, regardless of whether the relative resides within this State.  (b) Shall, if practicable, give preference to the placement of the child together with his or her siblings.  Any search for a relative with whom to place a child pursuant to this subsection must be completed within 1 year after the initial placement of the child outside of his or her home.  [11:161:1953] — (NRS A 1975, 966; 1981, 1755; 1991, 1177; 1999, 2028; 2009, 220; 2011, 142)
NV Rev Stat § 128.120 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 128 - Termination of Parental Rights|NRS 128.120 - Effect of order.

Any order made and entered by the court under the provisions of NRS 128.110 is conclusive and binding upon the person declared to be free from the custody and control of his or her parent or parents, and upon all other persons who have been served with notice by publication or otherwise, as provided by this chapter. After the making of the order, except as otherwise provided in NRS 128.190, the court has no power to set aside, change or modify it, but nothing in this chapter impairs the right of appeal.  [12:161:1953] — (NRS A 1981, 1756; 2007, 92)
NV Rev Stat § 128.130 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 128 - Termination of Parental Rights|NRS 128.130 - Notice to produce; warrant of arrest; contempts.

At any time after the filing of the petition, notice may issue requiring any person having the custody or control of such minor person, or the person with whom such person is, to appear with such person at a time and place stated in the notice. In case such notice cannot be served, or the party served fails, without reasonable cause, to obey it, a warrant of arrest shall issue on the order of the court against the person so cited, or against the minor himself or herself, or against both; or, if there is no party to be served with such notice, a warrant of arrest may be issued against the minor person. If any party noticed, as provided for in this section, fails without reasonable cause to appear and abide by the order of the court, or to bring such minor person, such failure shall constitute a contempt of court.  [13:161:1953]
NV Rev Stat § 128.140 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 128 - Termination of Parental Rights|NRS 128.140 - Expenses to be county charges.

All expenses incurred in complying with the provisions of this chapter shall be a county charge if so ordered by the court.  [14:161:1953] — (NRS A 1975, 967)
NV Rev Stat § 128.160 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 128 - Termination of Parental Rights|NRS 128.160 - Best interest of child in determining consideration in action to set aside termination of parental rights after adoption has been granted; presumption.

  1. In any action commenced by the natural parent of a child to set aside a court order terminating the parental rights of the natural parent after a petition for adoption has been granted, the best interests of the child must be the primary and determining consideration of the court.  2. After a petition for adoption has been granted, there is a presumption for the purposes of this chapter that remaining in the home of the adopting parent is in the child’s best interest.  (Added to NRS by 1995, 735)
NV Rev Stat § 128.170 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 128 - Termination of Parental Rights|NRS 128.170 - Restoration of parental rights: Petition; consent of natural parent required.

  1. A child who has not been adopted and whose natural parent or parents have had their parental rights terminated or have relinquished their parental rights, or the legal custodian or guardian of such a child, may petition a court for the restoration of the parental rights of the natural parent or parents of the child.  2. The natural parent or parents for whom restoration of parental rights is sought to be restored must consent in writing to the petition.  (Added to NRS by 2007, 90)
NV Rev Stat § 128.180 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 128 - Termination of Parental Rights|NRS 128.180 - Restoration of parental rights: Notice of hearing; persons required to be personally served with notice; right of such persons to present testimony and evidence.

  1. Before a hearing is held on a petition that is filed pursuant to NRS 128.170, the court shall direct the clerk to issue a notice, reciting briefly the substance of the petition and stating the date set for the hearing thereof, and requiring the person served therewith to appear before the court at the time and place if that person desires to provide testimony or evidence concerning the petition.  2. The following persons must be personally served with the notice:  (a) The natural parent or parents for whom parental rights are sought to be restored;  (b) The legal custodian and the legal guardian of the child who is the subject of the petition;  (c) If the parental rights of the natural parent or parents for whom parental rights are sought to be restored were terminated, the person or governmental entity that petitioned for the termination if different from the persons notified pursuant to paragraph (b); and  (d) The attorney of record of the child who is the subject of the petition or, if none, the child.  3. The persons who are served with notice pursuant to subsection 2 must be provided an opportunity to present testimony and evidence during the hearing.  (Added to NRS by 2007, 90)
NV Rev Stat § 128.190 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 128 - Termination of Parental Rights|NRS 128.190 - Restoration of parental rights: Hearing; required findings to grant petition; effect of order restoring parental rights.

  1. If a valid petition is filed pursuant to NRS 128.170, the court shall hold a hearing to determine whether to restore the parental rights of the natural parent or parents.  2. Before granting a petition for the restoration of parental rights, the court must find that:  (a) If any child who is the subject of the petition is 14 years of age or older, the child consents to the restoration of parental rights.  (b) The natural parent or parents for whom restoration of parental rights is sought have been informed of the legal obligations, rights and consequences of the restoration of parental rights and that the natural parent or parents are willing and able to accept such obligations, rights and consequences.  3. If the court finds the necessary facts pursuant to subsection 2, the court shall order the restoration of parental rights if the court further finds by a preponderance of the evidence that:  (a) The child is not likely to be adopted; and  (b) Restoration of parental rights of the natural parent or parents is in the best interests of the child.  4. If the court restores the parental rights of the natural parent or parents of a child who is less than 14 years of age, the court shall specify in its order the factual basis for its findings that it is in the best interests of the child to restore the parental rights of the natural parent or parents.  5. Upon the entry of an order for the restoration of parental rights issued pursuant to this section, any child who is the subject of the petition becomes the legal child of the natural parent or parents whose rights have been restored, and they shall become the child’s legal parents on that date with all the rights and duties of parents.  (Added to NRS by 2007, 91)
NV Rev Stat § 129.010 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 129 - Minors’ Disabilities; Judicial Emancipation of Minors|NRS 129.010 - Age of majority.

All persons of the age of 18 years who are under no legal disability, and all persons who have been declared emancipated pursuant to NRS 129.080 to 129.140, inclusive, are capable of entering into any contract, and are, to all intents and purposes, held and considered to be of lawful age.  [1:19:1861; B § 323; BH § 4943; C § 5000; RL § 431; NCL § 300] — (NRS A 1971, 455; 1973, 1578; 1987, 1281)