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Nevada Revised Statutes - Wills and Estates of Deceased PersonsLegal Research Home > Nevada Lawyer > Wills and Estates of Deceased Persons > Nevada Revised Statutes - Wills and Estates of Deceased Persons Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.010 Construction of title. This title must be liberally construed so that a speedy settlement of estates is accomplished at the least expense to the parties. ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.025 Definitions. As used in this title, unless the context otherwise requires, the words and terms defined in NRS 132.030 to 132.370, inclusive, have the meanings ascribed to them in those ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.030 “Abatement” defined. “Abatement” means a proportional reduction of a pecuniary devise when the money or other assets out of which the devise is payable are not sufficient to pay the ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.035 “Acknowledgment” defined. “Acknowledgment” means a declaration that an instrument has been executed for the purposes stated therein and, if the instrument was executed in a representative capacity, that the instrument ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.040 “Administrator” defined. “Administrator” means a person not designated in a will who is appointed by the court to administer an estate. ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.045 “Agent” defined. “Agent” means a person authorized to represent or act for another person, including an attorney-in-fact under a durable or nondurable power of attorney and a person authorized to ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.050 “Beneficiary” defined. “Beneficiary,” as it relates to:
1. A trust, includes a person who has a present or future interest, vested or contingent, and the owner of an interest ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.055 “Child” defined. “Child” includes a person entitled to take as a child by intestate succession from the parent whose relationship is involved and excludes a person who is a stepchild, ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.060 “Citation” defined. “Citation” means a document issued by the clerk of the court, as authorized by statute or ordered by the court, requiring a person to appear, directing a person ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.065 “Claim” defined. “Claim,” in respect to the estate of a decedent, includes a liability of the decedent, whether arising in contract, in tort or otherwise, that arises before the death ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.070 “Codicil” defined. “Codicil” means an addition to a will that may modify or revoke one or more provisions of the will, or add one or more provisions to the will, ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.075 “Community property” defined. “Community property” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 123.220. ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.080 “Community property with right of survivorship” defined. “Community property with right of survivorship” means community property in which a right of survivorship exists pursuant to NRS 111.064 or 115.060 or ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.085 “Descendant” defined. “Descendant” includes descendants of all generations. For the purposes of this section, the relationship of parent and child at each generation is determined by the definitions of “child” ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.090 “Designation of beneficiary” defined. “Designation of beneficiary” means a governing instrument naming a beneficiary of an insurance policy or annuity, of an account designated as payable on death, of a ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.095 “Devise” defined. “Devise,” used as a noun, means a testamentary disposition of real or personal property and, used as a verb, means to dispose of real or personal property by ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.100 “Devisee” defined. “Devisee” means a person designated in a will to receive a devise. For the purposes of chapters 133, 134, 135 and 148 of NRS, in the case of ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.105 “Disclaimant” defined. “Disclaimant” means a person who executes a disclaimer. The term includes a beneficiary and his guardian, personal representative, general attorney-in-fact, and special attorney-in-fact with power to disclaim. ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.110 “Disclaimer” defined. “Disclaimer” means a written instrument that declines, refuses, renounces or disclaims an interest to which a beneficiary would otherwise succeed. ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.115 “Distributee” defined. “Distributee” means a person who has received property of a decedent from his personal representative other than as a creditor or purchaser. A testamentary trustee is a distributee ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.117 “Electronic record” defined. “Electronic record” means a record created, generated or stored by electronic means. ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.118 “Electronic signature” defined. “Electronic signature” means an electronic sound, symbol or process attached to or logically associated with a record and executed or adopted by a person with the intent ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.119 “Electronic will” defined. “Electronic will” means a testamentary document that complies with the requirements of NRS 133.085. ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.120 “Estate” defined. “Estate” includes the property of the decedent or trust whose affairs are subject to this title as it is originally constituted and as it exists from time to ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.125 “Estate tax” defined. “Estate tax” means federal estate tax, including any interest and penalty thereon. ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.130 “Executor” defined. “Executor” means a person nominated in a will and appointed by the court to execute the provisions of the will and administer the estate of the decedent. ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.135 “Expenses of administration” defined. “Expenses of administration” means funeral expenses and expenses actually and properly incurred by a personal representative in the administration of an estate, plus the fees of ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.140 “Family allowance” defined. “Family allowance” means the money allocated from the estate by the court pursuant to NRS 146.030. ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.145 “Fiduciary” defined. “Fiduciary” includes a personal representative, guardian and trustee. ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.150 “Gift” defined. “Gift” means a gratuitous transfer of property to a recipient for less than full market value. ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.155 “Governing instrument” defined. “Governing instrument” means: 1. A deed, will, trust, insurance policy or annuity, designated as payable on death; 2. A security registered as transferable on death; Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.160 “Guardian” defined. “Guardian” means a person who has qualified as the guardian of a minor or incapacitated person pursuant to testamentary or judicial appointment, but does not include a guardian ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.165 “Heirs” defined. “Heirs” means persons, including the surviving spouse and the state, who are entitled by intestate succession to the property of a decedent. ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.170 “Holographic will” defined. “Holographic will” means a testamentary document that complies with the requirements of NRS 133.090. ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.175 “Incapacitated person” defined. “Incapacitated person” means a person who is impaired by reason of mental illness, mental deficiency, advanced age, disease, weakness of mind or any other cause except minority, ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.180 “Interest” defined. “Interest” means:
1. The whole of any property, real or personal, legal or equitable, present or future, or any part thereof, or any other estate therein; ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.185 “Interested person” defined. “Interested person” includes an heir, devisee, child, spouse, creditor, beneficiary and any other person having a property right in or claim against a trust estate or the ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.190 “Intestate” defined. “Intestate,” used as a noun, means a decedent who dies without leaving a will. ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.195 “Intestate estate” defined. “Intestate estate” includes an estate where no will has been offered or admitted to probate as the last will and testament and an estate where the will ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.200 “Inventory” defined. “Inventory” means the description of assets required by NRS 144.040. ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.205 “Issue” defined. “Issue” means children, grandchildren or more remote lineal descendants. ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.210 “Joint tenants with right of survivorship” defined. “Joint tenants with right of survivorship” includes co-owners of property held under circumstances that entitle one or more to the whole of the ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.215 “Lease” defined. “Lease” includes an oil, gas or other mineral lease. ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.220 “Letters” defined. “Letters” includes letters testamentary, letters of administration, letters of administration with will annexed and letters of special administration. ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.225 “Lien” defined. “Lien” means a charge upon property for the satisfaction of a debt, including an obligation not satisfied, a judgment, unpaid taxes and an unpaid obligation for materials or ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.230 “Minor” defined. “Minor” means a person who is under 18 years of age. ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.235 “Mortgage” defined. “Mortgage” means a conveyance, agreement or arrangement in which property is encumbered or used as security. ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.240 “Notice” defined. “Notice” means information provided pursuant to NRS 155.010 or 155.020 or any other statute requiring advance information of an opportunity, obligation or the occurrence of an event. ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.245 “Oath” defined. “Oath” means a form of attestation which affirms that the taker will faithfully perform the duties of a specified office. ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.250 “Order” defined. “Order” includes a declaration, decree or judgment by a court and is a final judgment for all purposes, including an appeal under NRS 155.190. ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.255 “Parent” defined. “Parent” includes any person entitled to take, or who would be entitled to take if the child died without a will, as a parent by intestate succession from ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.260 “Person” defined. “Person” includes a natural person, organization, government or a governmental subdivision, agency or instrumentality. ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.265 “Personal representative” defined. “Personal representative” includes an executor, an administrator, a successor personal representative, a special administrator and persons who perform substantially the same function under the law governing their ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.270 “Petition” defined. “Petition” means a verified written request to the court for an order. ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.275 “Probate” defined. “Probate,” used as a noun, means a legal proceeding in which the court has jurisdiction to administer, pay out and distribute the assets of a decedent to the ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.280 “Probate homestead” defined. “Probate homestead” means a homestead that can be set apart by the court pursuant to NRS 146.020. ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.285 “Property” defined. “Property” means anything that may be the subject of ownership, and includes both real and personal property and any interest therein. ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.287 “Record” defined. “Record” means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium, or that is stored in an electronic medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.290 “Right of representation” defined. “Right of representation” means the method of distributing property by which, through inheritance or succession, the descendants of a deceased heir take the same share or ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.295 “Security” defined. “Security” includes any note, stock, treasury stock, bond, debenture, evidence of indebtedness, certificate of interest or participation in an oil, gas or mining title or lease or in ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.300 “Separate property” defined. “Separate property” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 123.130. ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.305 “Settlement” defined. “Settlement,” in reference to the estate of a decedent, includes administration, distribution and closing. ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.310 “Settlor” defined. “Settlor” means the person who creates a trust, however described in the trust instrument. ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.315 “Special administrator” defined. “Special administrator” means a personal representative appointed pursuant to chapter 140 of NRS. ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.320 “State” defined. “State” means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.325 “Successor personal representative” defined. “Successor personal representative” means a personal representative, other than a special administrator, who is appointed to succeed a previously appointed personal representative. ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.330 “Successors” defined. “Successors” means persons, other than creditors, who are entitled to property of a decedent under the terms of his will or pursuant to this title. ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.335 “Tax” defined. “Tax” includes an income, property, excise, estate, gift or inheritance tax. ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.340 “Testate estate” defined. “Testate estate” means an estate with respect to which a will has been offered and admitted to probate. ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.345 “Testator” defined. “Testator” means a person who makes a will. ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.350 “Trust” defined. “Trust” means an interest in property held by one person for the benefit of another, established by an instrument executed during the life of the settlor or by ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.355 “Trustee” defined. “Trustee” includes an original, additional or successor trustee, whether or not appointed or confirmed by a court. ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.360 “Verification” defined. “Verification” means a declaration that a statement is true, made under oath or affirmation under penalty of perjury for false statement. ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.365 “Ward” and “minor ward” defined. “Ward” means a person for whom a guardian has been appointed. A “minor ward” is one for whom a guardian has been appointed solely by ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.370 “Will” defined. “Will” means a formal document that provides for the distribution of the property of a decedent upon his death. The term includes a codicil and a testamentary instrument ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 132.380 Terms: “Writing” or “written.” As used in this title, unless the context otherwise requires, when the term “writing” or “written” is used in reference to a will, the term includes ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 133.020 Sound mind; age. Every person of sound mind, over the age of 18 years, may, by last will, dispose of all his or her estate, real and personal, the same ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 133.040 Valid wills: Requirements of writing, subscription, witnesses and attestation. No will executed in this state, except such electronic wills or holographic wills as are mentioned in this chapter, is valid ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 133.045 Disposition of certain tangible personal property by reference to list or statement; requirements.
1. Whether or not the provisions relating to electronic wills and holographic wills apply, a will ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 133.050 Attesting witnesses may sign self-proving declarations or affidavits to be attached to will.
1. Any attesting witness to a will may sign a declaration under penalty of perjury or ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 133.055 Signature affixed to self-proving affidavit or declaration that is attached to will considered signature affixed to will. A signature affixed to a self-proving affidavit or a self-proving declaration that is ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 133.060 Devise to subscribing witness. All devises in a will to a subscribing witness are void unless there are two other competent subscribing witnesses to the will. ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 133.070 Creditors as witnesses. A mere charge on the estate of the testator for the payment of debts shall not prevent his creditors from being competent witnesses to his will. ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 133.080 Foreign execution.
1. If in writing and subscribed by the testator, a last will and testament executed outside this state in the manner prescribed by the law, either of ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 133.085 Electronic will.
1. An electronic will is a will of a testator that: (a) Is written, created and stored in an electronic record; (b) Contains the date ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 133.090 Holographic will.
1. A holographic will is a will in which the signature, date and material provisions are written by the hand of the testator, whether or not it ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 133.100 Nuncupative or oral will invalid. A nuncupative or oral will is not valid. ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 133.105 Transfer of security issued in registered form or beneficiary form effective without compliance with formal requirements of chapter.
1. A security issued in registered form which contains the words ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 133.110 Revocation by marriage; effect upon rights of surviving spouse. If a person marries after making a will and the spouse survives the maker, the will is revoked as to the ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 133.115 Revocation of provisions in favor of former spouse on divorce or annulment; exceptions. Divorce or annulment of the marriage of the testator revokes every devise, beneficial interest or designation to ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 133.120 Other means of revocation.
1. A written will may only be revoked by: (a) Burning, tearing, cancelling or obliterating the will, with the intention of revoking it, by ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 133.130 Effect of revocation of subsequent will. If, after the making of any will, the testator executes a second will, the destruction, cancellation or revocation of the second will does not ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 133.140 Agreements of testator. A bond, covenant or agreement made by a testator to convey any property devised in any will previously made is not a revocation of the previous devise, ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 133.150 Charges or encumbrances upon estate. A charge or encumbrance upon any estate, for the purpose of securing the payment of money, or the performance of any covenant or agreement, is ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 133.155 Specific devise passes subject to mortgage or lien existing on date of death. A specific devise passes subject to any mortgage or lien existing on the date of death, without ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 133.160 Rights of child born after making of will by parent of child. When a child is born after the making of a will by a parent of that child and ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 133.170 Omission of child or grandchild presumed intentional; rights of child or grandchild if omission found unintentional. When the child of a testator or the issue of a deceased child of ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 133.180 Sources of unmentioned child’s share. When any share of the estate of a testator is assigned to a child born after the making of a will, or to a child ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 133.190 Effect of advancements. If the child or children, or their descendants, so unprovided for, have had an equal proportion of the testator’s estate bestowed upon them in the testator’s lifetime, ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 133.200 Death of devisee. When any estate is devised to any child or other relation of the testator, and the devisee dies before the testator, leaving lineal descendants, those descendants, in ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 133.210 Devise of real property. Every devise of real property in any will conveys all the estate of the testator therein which could lawfully be devised, unless it clearly appears by ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 133.220 Interests acquired after execution of will. Any estate, right or interest in real property acquired by the testator after the making of a will passes thereby in like manner as ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 134.005 Applicability of chapter as between spouses with premarital agreement. The provisions of this chapter do not apply to the extent that they are inconsistent with the provisions of a premarital ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 134.010 Vesting upon death of spouse; applicability of chapter only to separate property. If a decedent leaves a surviving spouse:
1. Community property with right of survivorship vests in accordance ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 134.030 Descent and distribution. If a decedent dies intestate and has title to any estate which is the separate property of the decedent and which is not otherwise limited by contract, ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 134.040 Surviving spouse and issue.
1. If the decedent leaves a surviving spouse and only one child, or the lawful issue of one child, the estate goes one-half to the ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 134.050 Surviving spouse and no issue; no surviving spouse or issue but parent.
1. If the decedent leaves no issue, the estate goes one-half to the surviving spouse, one-fourth to ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 134.060 No issue, surviving spouse or parent but sibling. If there is no issue, surviving spouse, or father or mother, then the estate goes in equal shares to the brothers and ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 134.070 No issue, surviving spouse or immediate family. If the decedent leaves no issue, surviving spouse, or father or mother, and no brother or sister living at the time of death, ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 134.080 Unmarried minor decedent without issue or sibling but issue of sibling. At the death of a child who is under age, who is without issue and who has not been ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 134.085 Unmarried minor decedent without issue but sibling or issue of sibling. If any person dies leaving several children, or leaving a child and issue of one or more children, and ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 134.090 No surviving spouse but issue. If the decedent leaves no surviving spouse, but there is a child or children, the estate, if there is only one child, all goes to ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 134.100 No surviving spouse but issue and children of issue. If the decedent leaves no surviving spouse, but there is a child or children and the lawful issue of a child ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 134.110 No surviving spouse or issue but children of issue. If the decedent leaves no surviving spouse, or child or children, but there is the lawful issue of a child or ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 134.120 Escheat. If the decedent leaves no surviving spouse or kindred, the estate escheats to the State for educational purposes. ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 134.150 Degree of kindred. The degrees of kindred shall be computed according to the rules of the civil law. ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 134.160 Kindred of half blood. Kindred of the half blood inherit equally with those of the whole blood in the same degree, unless the inheritance comes to the decedent by descent ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 134.190 Adopted child. An adopted child and his adoptive parents or their relatives shall inherit as provided in NRS 127.160. ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 134.210 Vesting of estate if both spouses die intestate. Whenever one spouse dies intestate, leaving heirs, if the other spouse dies intestate after the first spouse, without heirs, leaving property, the ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 135.010 Short title. This chapter may be cited as the Uniform Simultaneous Death Act. ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 135.020 Insufficient evidence of survivorship. Where the title to property or the devolution thereof depends upon priority of death and there is insufficient evidence that the persons died otherwise than simultaneously, ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 135.030 Beneficiaries of another person’s disposition of property. Where two or more beneficiaries are designated to take successively by reason of survivorship under another person’s disposition of property and there is ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 135.040 Joint tenants or spouses holding title to community property with right of survivorship. Where there is insufficient evidence that two joint tenants or spouses holding title to community property with ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 135.050 Insurance policies. Where the insured and the beneficiary in a policy of life or accident insurance have died and there is insufficient evidence that they died otherwise than simultaneously, the ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 135.060 Community property. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 135.050 or in a premarital agreement between spouses which is enforceable pursuant to chapter 123A of NRS, where both spouses have died, ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 135.080 Chapter does not apply if decedent provides otherwise. This chapter does not apply in the case of wills, living trusts, deeds, or contracts in which provision has been made for ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 135.090 Uniformity of interpretation. This chapter shall be so construed and interpreted as to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law in those states which enact it. ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 136.010 Resident decedent; nonresident decedent.
1. Wills may be proved and letters granted in the county where the decedent was a resident at the time of death, whether death occurred ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 136.020 Disqualified judge. A district judge shall not admit any will to probate, or grant letters in any case where the judge is:
1. Interested as next of kin to ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 136.030 Disqualified judge required to transfer proceedings to qualified judge; duties, powers and jurisdiction of qualified judge.
1. If a district judge, who would otherwise be authorized to act, is ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 136.040 Transfer of proceedings back to original court. If, before the administration of any estate transferred as provided in NRS 136.030 is closed, another person becomes judge of the court in ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 136.050 Delivery of will after death; liability for nondelivery.
1. Any person having possession of a will shall, within 30 days after knowledge of the death of the person who ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 136.060 Order to produce will; penalty for failure to comply with order.
1. If it is alleged in any petition that the will of a decedent is in the possession ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 136.070 Persons qualified to petition for probate.
1. A personal representative or devisee named in a will, or any other interested person, may, at any time after the death of ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 136.090 Petition for probate: Requirements; effect of defect.
1. A petition for the probate of a will and issuance of letters must state: (a) The jurisdictional facts; (b) ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 136.100 Petition for probate: Clerk to set for hearing; notice of hearing.
1. A petition for the probate of a will and for the issuance of letters must be signed ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 136.120 Service of petition when petition presented by person other than named personal representative or by fewer than all named personal representatives. If a petition for probate is presented by any ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 136.130 Attesting witnesses to will subpoenaed; unnecessary where self-proving affidavits.
1. The clerk shall issue subpoenas to the subscribing witnesses to a will if they reside in the county. ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 136.140 Proof of notice; witnesses to testify orally.
1. At the time appointed, or at any other time to which the hearing may be continued, upon proof being made by ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 136.150 Evidence of subscribing witnesses: Affidavits ex parte.
1. If no person appears to contest the probate of a will, the court may admit it to probate on the testimony ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 136.160 Proof of will by affidavits of attesting witnesses.
1. Any or all of the attesting witnesses to any will may, after the death of the testator and at the ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 136.170 Proof of will when subscribing witnesses are unavailable.
1. If it appears to the court that a will cannot be proven as otherwise provided by law because one or ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 136.180 Proof of will by copy.
1. If the will of a person is detained beyond the jurisdiction of the State, in a court of any other state, country or ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 136.185 Proof of electronic will. An electronic will may be proved by authentication satisfactory to the court. ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 136.190 Proof of holographic will. A holographic will may be proved by authentication satisfactory to the court. ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 136.200 Appointment of attorney to represent minors, unborn members of interested class or nonresidents; retention of other counsel.
1. If a will is offered for probate and it appears there ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 136.210 Translation and recording of will in foreign language. If the will is in a foreign language the court shall certify to a correct translation thereof into English and the certified ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 136.220 Admissibility of certified copy of will and order admitting will to probate. A copy of the will and order admitting it to probate, certified by the clerk in whose custody ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 136.230 Jurisdiction of court to take proof of execution and validity of lost or destroyed will. If a will is lost by accident or destroyed by fraud without the knowledge of ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 136.240 Petition for probate; same requirements of proof as other wills; testimony of witnesses; order.
1. The petition for the probate of a lost or destroyed will must include a ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 136.250 Restraint of administration pending petition. If, before or during the pendency of an application to prove a lost or destroyed will, letters of administration have been granted upon the estate ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 136.260 Probate of foreign wills: Procedure.
1. A will duly proved, allowed and admitted to probate outside of this state may be admitted to probate and recorded in the proper ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 137.010 Proceedings preliminary to trial.
1. The Attorney General or any interested person, including a devisee under a former will, may contest the will by filing written grounds of opposition ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 137.020 Trial of contest: Jury; costs.
1. In the contest, the contestant is plaintiff and the petitioner is defendant. The written grounds of opposition constitute a pleading and are subject ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 137.030 Admissibility of testimony concerning declarations of testator. In the contest, the testimony as to the declaration of a testator is admissible if contemporaneous with the execution of the will insofar ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 137.040 Evidence of execution. If the will is contested, all the subscribing witnesses who are present in the county and who are of sound mind must be produced and examined, or ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 137.050 Verdict and judgment. The jury must return a special verdict upon the issues submitted to them by the court; and upon the verdict, or upon the proof taken if a ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 137.060 Order admitting will to probate. If the court is satisfied upon the proof taken when heard by the court, or by the verdict of a jury if a jury is ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 137.070 Perpetuation of testimony. The testimony of each subscribing witness who has testified must be reduced to writing, signed in the form of an affidavit or deposition and filed with the ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 137.080 Persons qualified to contest will; filing of petition. After a will has been admitted to probate, any interested person other than a party to a contest before probate or a ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 137.090 Issuance of citation. Upon filing the petition, and within the time allowed for filing the petition, a citation must be issued, directed to the personal representative and to all the ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 137.100 Service of citation; trial; revocation of letters. The citation must be served and proceedings had thereunder as in the case of a contest before probate. If the jury finds or ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 137.110 Costs. If the probate is not revoked, the costs of trial must be paid by the contestant. If the probate is revoked, the costs must be paid by the party ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 137.120 Period of limitation. If no person contests the validity of a will or of the probate thereof, within the time specified in NRS 137.080, the probate of the will is ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 137.130 Probate of other will. Failure to contest a will does not preclude the subsequent probate of a will executed later in point of time than the one previously admitted to ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 137.140 Appeal from final order. An appeal from a final order determining the contest of a will is governed by the Nevada Rules of Appellate Procedure, and the notice of appeal ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 138.010 Powers of personal representative before issuance of letters.
1. If a will has been admitted to probate, the court shall direct letters thereon to issue to the personal representative ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 138.020 Qualifications of executor; letters with will annexed.
1. No person is qualified to serve as an executor who, at the time the will is probated: (a) Is under ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 138.040 Executor not specifically named may be appointed. If it appears by the terms of a will that it was the intention of the testator to commit the execution of the ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 138.045 Appointment of substitute executors and coexecutors.
1. A person who is named as executor under a will, either alone or with another or others, who is otherwise qualified to ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 138.050 Successor to corporate executor. If the executor named in the will is a corporation or national banking association that has sold its business and assets to, or has consolidated or ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 138.060 Objections to appointment.
1. An interested person may file objections in writing to the granting of letters testamentary to the person or persons named as executors, or any of ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 138.070 Executor of deceased executor; account of deceased personal representative.
1. No executor of the will of a deceased executor, as such, is authorized to administer the estate of the ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 138.080 Failure to appoint all named executors. If all the persons named as executors are not appointed by the court, those appointed have the same authority to perform every act and ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 138.090 Administrators with will annexed: Order of appointment.
1. Administrators with the will annexed have the same authority as the executor named in the will would have had if the ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 139.010 Qualifications. No person is entitled to letters of administration who:
1. Is under the age of majority; 2. Has been convicted of a felony relating to the position ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 139.030 Surviving partner. The surviving partner of a decedent must not be appointed administrator of the estate if any interested person objects to the appointment. ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 139.040 Order of priority for right to appointment; priority of nominee.
1. Administration of the intestate estate of a decedent must be granted to one or more of the persons ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 139.050 Nomination. Administration may be granted upon petition to one or more qualified persons, although not otherwise entitled to serve, at the written request of the person entitled, filed in the ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 139.060 Relatives of whole blood preferred to those of half blood. When there shall be several persons claiming and equally entitled to the administration, relatives of the whole blood are preferred ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 139.070 Discretion of the court. When there are several persons equally entitled to the administration, the court may, in its discretion, grant letters to one or more of them. ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 139.080 Failure to claim letters. Letters of administration may be granted to any petitioner, even if it appears that there are other persons having priority for appointment, if the latter fail ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 139.090 Contents of petition; effect of defect.
1. A petition for letters of administration must be in writing, signed by the petitioner or the attorney for the petitioner and filed ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 139.100 Clerk to set petition for hearing; notice of hearing. The clerk shall set the petition for hearing, and notice must be given to the heirs of the decedent and to ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 139.110 Right of contest: Filing of counterpetition; notice and hearing. An interested person may contest the petition by filing a written opposition on the ground that the petitioner is not qualified ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 139.120 Facts to be proved. Before letters are granted, the fact of death and that the decedent died intestate, and that notice has been given as required in this chapter, must ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 139.130 Entry in minutes or written order conclusive evidence of notice. An entry in the minutes or in the written order appointing the administrator that proof was made and that notice ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 139.140 Right of person with priority to petition for revocation and reissuance of letters. When letters of administration have been granted to any person other than the surviving spouse or the ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 139.150 Procedure.
1. If a petition for revocation is filed, notice must be given as in the case of an original petition, and the petitioner shall serve a citation on ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 139.160 Assertion of prior right. The surviving spouse, or nominee of the surviving spouse, when letters of administration have been granted to a child, parent, brother or sister of the decedent, ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 139.170 Discretion of court. The court may refuse to grant letters of administration as provided in this chapter to any person or to the nominee of any person who had actual ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 140.010 Causes for appointment. The court shall appoint a special administrator to collect and take charge of the estate of the decedent, in whatever county or counties the estate may be ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 140.020 Notice and order of appointment; order not appealable.
1. The appointment of a special administrator may be made at chambers or in open court, and without notice or upon ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 140.030 Bond and oath. Before letters issue to a person as a special administrator, the person must:
1. Give bond in such sum as the court directs, with sureties to ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 140.040 Powers, duties and immunity from liability for certain claims.
1. A special administrator shall: (a) Collect and preserve for the executor or administrator when appointed all the goods, ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 140.050 Payment of mortgage or lien; payment of interest.
1. If any property in the control or possession of a special administrator is subject to a mortgage or lien to ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 140.060 Appointment pending contest of will or appeal from order; appointment before contest of will.
1. If a special administrator is appointed pending determination of a contest of a will ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 140.070 Effect of grant of letters testamentary or letters of administration. If letters testamentary or letters of administration are granted, the powers of a special administrator cease, and the special administrator ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 140.080 Account of special administrator. A special administrator shall also render an account, under oath, of the proceedings in like manner as other administrators are required to do, but if a ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 141.010 Signing and sealing. Letters testamentary, letters of administration with the will annexed, letters of special administration and letters of administration must be signed by the clerk and under the seal ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 141.020 Letters testamentary. Letters testamentary may be in substantially the following form, after properly entitling the court: In the Matter of the Estate of ) ) Case No. ) Nevada Revised Statutes Section 141.030 Letters of administration with will annexed. Letters of administration with the will annexed may be in substantially the following form, after properly entitling the court:
In the Matter of the ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 141.040 Letters of administration. Letters of administration may be in substantially the following form, after properly entitling the court: In the Matter of the Estate of ) ) Case No. Nevada Revised Statutes Section 141.045 Letters of special administration. Letters of special administration may be in substantially the following form, after properly entitling the court:
In the Matter of the Estate of ) ) ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 141.050 Effect of subsequent probate. If, after granting letters of administration on the ground of intestacy, a will of the decedent is duly proved and allowed by the court, the letters ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 141.060 Incapacity of joint personal representatives. If one of several personal representatives of the same estate to whom letters have been granted dies, becomes incapacitated or disqualified, or otherwise becomes incapable ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 141.070 Incapacity of all personal representatives. If all the personal representatives die or from any cause become incapable of executing the duties of their office, or the authority of all of ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 141.080 Procedure for resigning appointment of personal representative. A personal representative may resign the appointment at any time, by a writing filed with the court, to take effect upon the settlement ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 141.090 Causes for suspending appointment of personal representative. If a court has reason to believe, from its own knowledge or from credible information, that a personal representative:
1. Has wasted, ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 141.095 Powers of personal representative limited after receiving notice of proceeding to suspend or remove his appointment; disposition or transfer of assets after removal. After receipt of notice of a proceeding ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 141.100 Appointment of special administrator during suspension of personal representative; bond. During the suspension of the powers of a personal representative, as provided in NRS 141.090 and 142.110, the court, if ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 141.110 Personal representative cited to show cause after suspension; service of citation.
1. If an order of suspension is entered, the clerk shall issue a citation, reciting the order of ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 141.120 Interested person may file charges for removal of personal representative. An interested person may appear at the hearing and file allegations in writing, showing that the personal representative should be ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 141.130 Hearing for removal of personal representative; powers of court.
1. If the personal representative fails to appear as required by the citation, or if the personal representative appears and ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 141.140 Acts of personal representative before revocation. All acts of a personal representative before the revocation of the letters of the personal representative are as valid, for all intents and purposes, ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 142.010 Oath of affirmation of personal representative.
1. Before letters may be issued to a personal representative, the personal representative must take and subscribe an oath or affirmation, before a ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 142.020 Requirement of bond discretionary with court; reduction of bond; proof of blocked account; additional bond; amount of bond.
1. The requirement of a bond of a personal representative ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 142.030 Nature of surety’s liability: Extent of bond. The bond is not void upon the first recovery, but may be sued upon from time to time by any person aggrieved in ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 142.035 Jurisdiction of court over surety; clerk of court appointed as agent of surety; enforcement of liability of surety. If a personal representative is required by a court pursuant to the ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 142.040 Justification on oath required by surety. If a bond is required under this chapter, the sureties must justify on oath before the court or clerk or before a notary public, ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 142.050 Hearing to determine accuracy of justification of surety; additional security.
1. Before a court approves any bond required under this chapter, it may, on its own motion, or ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 142.060 Appointment of person next entitled. If sufficient security is not given within the time fixed by the court’s order, or such further time as the court may allow, the right ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 142.070 Bond may be required despite provisions of will. If it is expressly provided in the will of a decedent that no bond may be required of the personal representative, letters ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 142.080 Petition for additional security; court may require additional security; petition for increase in bond.
1. If an interested person discovers that the sureties of a personal representative have become ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 142.090 Hearing on sufficiency: Issuance and service of citation; order.
1. If the court is satisfied from a petition for additional bond or otherwise believes that the matter requires ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 142.100 Appointment of person next in order. If sufficient security or additional security is not given within the time fixed by the court’s order, the right of the personal representative to ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 142.130 Petition of surety for discharge; issuance and service of citation. If a surety of a personal representative desires to be released from responsibility on account of future acts, the surety ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 142.140 Revocation for failure to give new sureties. If the personal representative neglects or refuses to give new sureties, to the satisfaction of the court, on the return of the citation, ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 142.150 Discharge of sureties. If new sureties are given to the satisfaction of the court, it shall thereupon enter an order that the surety who applied for relief is not liable ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 143.010 Multiple personal representatives: Effect of absence or disability; sufficiency of acts of majority. If there are two personal representatives, the acts of one alone are valid if the other is ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 143.020 Right to possession of decedent’s property. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 146.010, a personal representative has a right to the possession of all the real, as well as personal, ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 143.030 Duty to take possession of estate and collect debts.
1. A personal representative shall take into possession all the estate of the decedent, real and personal, except that exempted ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 143.035 Duty to use reasonable diligence; report required if estate not closed within certain times; hearing and determinations by court.
1. A personal representative shall use reasonable diligence in ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 143.037 Duty to close estate within 18 months after appointment; exceptions.
1. Except as otherwise provided in this section, a personal representative shall close an estate within 18 months ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 143.040 Rights of surviving partner.
1. If a partnership existed between the decedent, at the time of death, and any other person, the surviving partner may continue in possession ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 143.060 Extent of power to sue and be sued. Actions for the recovery of any property, real or personal, or for the possession thereof, or to quiet title thereto, or to ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 143.065 Statute of limitations for cause of action of decedent. A statute of limitations running on a cause of action belonging to a decedent, that was not barred as of the ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 143.070 Actions by personal representative for conversion or trespass.
1. A personal representative may commence or maintain an action against any person who has wasted, destroyed, taken, carried away ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 143.080 Actions against personal representative for conversion or trespass. Any person or the personal representative has a right of action against the personal representative of a decedent who, in the lifetime ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 143.090 Action on bond of former personal representative. A successor personal representative may, for the use and benefit of all interested persons, maintain an action on the bond of a former ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 143.100 Action for conversion before letters granted. If any person, before the granting of letters, converts, takes or alienates any of the money, goods, chattels or effects of a decedent, that ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 143.110 Procedure when conversion alleged: Citation; examination; allowance of necessary expenses.
1. If a personal representative or other interested person alleges in a petition to the court that any ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 143.120 Procedure when conversion alleged: Commitment for refusal to appear for examination; order requiring delivery of property to personal representative.
1. If the person so cited refuses to appear ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 143.130 Accounting by person holding assets of estate for personal representative; penalty for failure or refusal to comply with order. The court, upon the petition of a personal representative, may require ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 143.140 Discharging debtor of estate, compromising claims and renewing obligations: Procedure.
1. If a debtor of the decedent is unable to pay all debts, the personal representative, with the ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 143.150 Action to recover fraudulently conveyed property for benefit of creditors.
1. If the decedent conveyed any real property or any rights or interests therein, with intent to defraud ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 143.160 Costs; disposal of property recovered; proceeds.
1. A personal representative is not bound to maintain an action for the estate, pursuant to NRS 143.150, for the benefit of ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 143.165 Temporary order to restrain personal representative from performing administration, disbursement or distribution of estate: Issuance; hearing.
1. On petition of an interested person, the court by temporary order may ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 143.170 Purchase of property of estate by personal representative. Unless approved in advance by a court after application, notice and a hearing on the matter, a personal representative shall not directly ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 143.180 Power to make loans, advances of credit and other investments insured by Federal Housing Administrator; validation of loans, advances of credit and purchases of obligations made before October 1, 1999.
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 143.187 Power to hold stock in name of nominee; personal liability of personal representative.
1. A personal representative holding certificates of stock in that capacity may hold the stock ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 143.190 Cumulative method of service of process on personal representative; written statement containing permanent address of personal representative to be filed with clerk.
1. Before letters are delivered to ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 143.200 Actions not to abate on death, disqualification, resignation or removal of personal representative; substitution of successor. No action to which a personal representative is a party abates by reason of ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 143.210 Necessary parties to actions. In actions brought by or against personal representatives, it is not necessary to join those as parties who have not qualified. ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 144.010 Inventory and appraisement or record of value to be made and filed; copy mailed to interested heirs and devisees.
1. Every personal representative shall make and file with the ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 144.020 Appraisers: When appointment authorized; compensation; record of value in lieu of appraisement.
1. A personal representative may engage a qualified and disinterested appraiser to ascertain the fair market ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 144.025 Certified public accountant or other expert in valuation: When appointment authorized; compensation.
1. A personal representative may engage a certified public accountant or other expert in valuation to ascertain ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 144.030 Certification of appraiser, certified public accountant or expert in valuation; form of appraisement or valuation; purchase by appraiser, certified public accountant or expert in valuation without disclosure prohibited; penalties.
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 144.040 Inventory: Contents.
1. An inventory must include all the estate of the decedent, wherever situated, that is subject to the jurisdiction of the court. 2. The ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 144.050 Claims against personal representative. The naming of a person as personal representative in a will does not operate as a discharge of any just receivable or demand which was due ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 144.060 Status of claim against personal representative. The discharge or devise in a will of a receivable or demand due the testator from any person named as personal representative in the ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 144.070 Oath of personal representative endorsed upon or annexed to inventory. A personal representative shall take and subscribe an oath, before any person authorized to administer oaths, that the inventory contains ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 144.080 Failure to file inventory: Revocation of letters; liability on bond. If a personal representative neglects or refuses to file the inventory within the time prescribed by law or extended by ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 144.090 Supplemental inventory of newly discovered property.
1. If property not mentioned in an inventory filed with the clerk comes into the possession or knowledge of the personal representative, ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 145.010 Application of chapter. The provisions of this chapter apply only to estates of which summary administration is ordered. Upon the granting of summary administration, all regular proceedings and further notices ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 145.020 Contents of petition seeking summary administration. All proceedings taken under this chapter, whether or not the decedent left a will, must be originated by a petition for letters testamentary or ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 145.030 Notice required. Notice of a petition for the probate of a will and the issuance of letters must be given as provided in NRS 155.010. ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 145.040 Conditions for ordering summary administration. If it is made to appear to the court that the gross value of the estate does not exceed $200,000, the court may, if deemed ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 145.060 Creditors’ claims: Notice, filing, approval and payment; procedure if claim of Department of Human Resources rejected.
1. A personal representative shall publish and mail notice to creditors in the ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 145.070 Sales of real property: Notice and procedure. All sales of real property, if summary administration is ordered, must be made upon notice given and in the manner required by chapter ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 145.075 Hearing and notices required upon filing of final account and petition for distribution.
1. Upon the filing of a final account and petition for distribution of an estate for ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 145.080 Close of administration and distribution. The administration of the estate may be closed and distribution made at any time after the expiration of the time for the personal representative to ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 145.110 Revocation of summary administration. If at any time after the entry of an order for the summary administration of an estate it appears that the gross value of the estate ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 146.005 Effect of premarital agreement between decedent and surviving spouse. The provisions of this chapter are inapplicable to the extent that they are inconsistent with the provisions of a premarital agreement ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 146.010 Surviving spouse and minor children entitled to homestead and provisions. Except as provided in NRS 125.510, if a person dies leaving a surviving spouse or a minor child or minor ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 146.020 After filing of inventory, court to set apart exempt personal property and homestead. Upon the filing of the inventory or at any time thereafter during the administration of the estate, ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 146.025 Recording of order setting apart homestead. If an order is entered setting apart a homestead, a certified copy of the order must be recorded in the office of the county ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 146.030 Family allowance from estate if property set apart is insufficient; where persons have other support.
1. If the whole property exempt by law is set apart and is not ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 146.040 Preference of family allowance. An allowance made by the court in accordance with the provisions of this chapter must be paid by the personal representative in preference to all other ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 146.050 Vesting of homestead; debts of spouse.
1. If the homestead was selected by the spouses, or either of them, during their marriage, and recorded while both were living, as ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 146.070 Estates not exceeding $75,000: Petition; notice; fees; distribution of interest of minor.
1. If a person dies leaving an estate the gross value of which, after deducting any ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 146.080 Estates not exceeding $20,000: Transfer of assets without issuance of letters of administration or probate of will; affidavit showing right to assets.
1. If a decedent leaves no ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 147.010 Notice to creditors. A personal representative shall publish and mail notice to creditors in the manner provided in NRS 155.020. ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 147.020 Death, resignation or removal of personal representative after expiration of time for notice: No further notice necessary. If a personal representative dies, resigns or is removed after the expiration of ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 147.030 Filing of notice and affidavit of publication or certificate of mailing. After the notice to creditors has been mailed or published, a copy, with the affidavit of publication or, if ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 147.040 Claims: Limit on time for filing.
1. A person having a claim, due or to become due, against the decedent must file his claim with the clerk within ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 147.050 Claims of personal representative.
1. If a personal representative is a creditor of the decedent, the claim must be filed with the clerk, who must present it for ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 147.060 Claims of district judge.
1. If a judge of the district court files or presents a claim against the estate of a decedent, the administration of which is ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 147.070 Claims for $250 or more must be supported by affidavit; correction or amendment of defective claim or affidavit.
1. A claim for an amount of $250 or more ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 147.080 Claims founded on written instrument or secured by mortgage or lien.
1. If a claim is founded upon a bond, bill, note or other instrument, the original instrument ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 147.090 Effect of statute of limitations. A claim which is barred by the statute of limitations must not be allowed or approved by a personal representative or by the court. No ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 147.100 Actions and proceedings pending against decedent or property in estate of decedent.
1. Except as otherwise ordered by the court for good cause shown, an action or proceeding pending ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 147.110 Examination of claims by personal representative: Allowance or rejection; effect of failure to act on claims; untimely claims.
1. Within 15 days after the time for filing claims ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 147.120 Status of approved claims. All claims approved by the personal representative or the court must be ranked among the acknowledged debts of the estate, to be paid in due course ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 147.130 Rejection of claim; notice; time to file suit; procedure if claim of Department of Human Resources rejected; service of summons; removal of personal representative for default.
1. If ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 147.140 Vacancy in administration. The time during which there is a vacancy in the administration must not be included in any limitations prescribed in this chapter, except as otherwise provided in ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 147.150 Claims must be filed and rejected; exception for mortgage. No holder of a claim against an estate may maintain an action thereon unless the claim is first filed with the ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 147.160 Offer of partial allowance of claim.
1. A personal representative who, or a court which, acts upon a filed claim shall endorse on the claim the amount offered ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 147.170 Reference of controversy.
1. If the personal representative doubts the correctness of any claim filed, the personal representative may enter into an agreement in writing with the claimant ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 147.180 Compromise of claim or action against estate: Petition; notice of hearing; execution of conveyances.
1. After the time for the presentation of claims has expired, the personal representative, ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 147.190 Reimbursement for costs. If a judgment is recovered with costs against a personal representative, the costs must be allowed to the personal representative from the accounts of the administration, unless ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 147.195 Debts and charges of estate: Priority of payment. The debts and charges of the estate must be paid in the following order:
1. Expenses of administration. 2. Funeral ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 147.200 Status of judgment against estate.
1. The effect of a judgment rendered against a personal representative upon a claim for money against the estate of the decedent is ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 147.210 Execution of judgment entered against decedent before his death; execution levied upon property of decedent during his lifetime; conversion of lien of attachment.
1. If a judgment has been ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 147.220 Interest on claims. All claims paid bear interest from date of filing at a rate equal to the prime rate at the largest bank in Nevada, as ascertained by the ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 147.230 Personal representative not chargeable with debts of estate except under written agreement. No personal representative is chargeable upon any special promise to assume liability for damages or to pay the ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 148.050 Sale of property for certain purposes: No priority between personal and real property; method and order of sale. In selling property to pay debts, devises, family allowance or expenses, there ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 148.060 Confirmation of sale: Report; petition; notice.
1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 148.170 and 148.180 and in summary administration under chapter 145 of NRS, all sales of ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 148.070 Written objection: Hearing; proof of notice. An interested person may file written objections to the confirmation of the sale and may be heard thereon, and may produce witnesses in support ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 148.080 Sales under direction of will. If property is directed by the will to be sold, or authority is given in the will to sell the property, the personal representative may ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 148.090 Petition for order requiring sale. If the personal representative neglects or refuses to sell any property of the estate when it is necessary or when it is for the advantage, ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 148.100 Neglect or misconduct of personal representative. If there is neglect or misconduct in the proceedings of the personal representative in relation to any sale by which an interested person suffers ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 148.105 Contracts to find purchaser of personal property: Liability of personal representative; limitation on commission.
1. The personal representative may enter into a written contract with any bona fide agent, ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 148.110 Contracts to find purchaser of real property: Liability of personal representative; limitation on commission.
1. The personal representative may enter into a written contract with any bona fide ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 148.120 Division of commission upon confirmation of highest bid. When an offer is presented for confirmation by the court, other offerors may submit higher bids and the court may confirm the ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 148.130 Sale of property subject to mortgage or other lien.
1. If real or personal property is sold that is subject to a mortgage or other lien which is ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 148.140 Disposition of proceeds of sale. The purchase money, or so much thereof as is sufficient to pay the mortgage or other lien, with interest, and any lawful costs and charges ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 148.150 Right of holder of lien on property to purchase it; receipt as payment pro tanto. At a sale of real or personal property upon which there is a mortgage or ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 148.160 Sale of equity of estate in property: Procedure.
1. A personal representative may sell the equity of the estate in any property which is subject to a mortgage ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 148.170 Sale of perishable and depreciating property. Perishable property and other personal property which will depreciate in value if not disposed of promptly, or which will incur loss or expense by ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 148.180 Sale of securities: Authorized by will or consent of devisees or heirs; authorized by court.
1. If the sale of securities is authorized by will or by consent ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 148.190 Sale of other personal property: Publication; description of property; inspection.
1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3 and NRS 148.080, 148.170 and 148.180 and in summary administration ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 148.195 Confirmation of sale: New appraisement; appraisal dispensed with under certain circumstances.
1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, no sale of personal property at private sale may be ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 148.200 Terms of sale. Personal property may be sold for cash or upon credit. ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 148.210 Interests in partnerships. Partnership interests or interests belonging to an estate by virtue of any partnership formerly existing, an interest in personal property pledged, and choses in action, may be ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 148.220 Notice of sale: Publication; posting; description of property.
1. Notice of the time and place of sale of real property must be published in a newspaper published in ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 148.230 Public auction; postponement of sale.
1. A sale at public auction must be made in the county in which the real property is located, and if it is ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 148.240 Private sale.
1. The notice of a private sale must state a place where bids or offers will be received, and a day on or after which the ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 148.260 Confirmation of sale: New appraisement; appraisal dispensed with under certain circumstances.
1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, no sale of real property at private sale may be ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 148.270 Hearing concerning confirmation of sale: Considerations; higher offer; continuance.
1. At the hearing, the court shall consider the necessity for the sale, or the advantage, benefit and interest ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 148.280 Conveyances after confirmation of sale.
1. If a sale is confirmed, a conveyance must be executed to the purchaser by the personal representative. The conveyance must refer to ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 148.290 Sale on credit.
1. If a sale is made upon credit, the personal representative shall take the note or notes of the purchaser for the unpaid portion of the ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 148.300 Failure of purchaser to complete sale. If, after the confirmation, the purchaser neglects or refuses to comply with the terms of the sale, the court, on motion of the personal ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 148.310 Fraudulent sale: Penalty. A personal representative who fraudulently sells any real property of a decedent contrary to or otherwise than under the provisions of this chapter is liable for double ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 148.320 Periods of limitation. The periods of limitation prescribed in NRS 11.270 apply to all actions for the recovery of any property sold by a personal representative in accordance with the ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 148.330 Method of sale. If a decedent, at the time of death, was a party to a contract for the purchase of property, the interest in the property and under the ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 148.340 Sale subject to claims; bond of purchaser.
1. The sale must be made subject to all payments which are due at the time of sale or which may ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 148.350 Assignment after confirmation. Upon the confirmation of the sale, the personal representative shall execute to the purchaser an assignment of the contract, which vests in the purchaser, and the heirs ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 148.360 Petition for sale: Notice.
1. To enter into an agreement to sell or to give an option to purchase a mining claim, or real property worked as a mine, ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 148.370 Hearing; order authorizing sale.
1. At the time appointed, the court, upon proof that due notice of the hearing has been given, shall proceed to hear the petition ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 148.380 Additional bond of personal representative; agreement or option to purchase.
1. The order must fix the amount of such additional bond as the court determines should be given ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 148.390 Failure to comply with agreement or option. If the purchaser or option holder neglects or refuses to comply with the terms of the agreement or option, the court, on petition ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 148.400 Procedure after compliance with agreement or option to purchase. If the terms of an agreement to sell or option to purchase have been complied with by the purchaser or option ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 148.410 Petition for order to convey, transfer or deliver property: Conditions; contents; hearing and notice; response; effect if order granted.
1. The personal representative or an interested person may petition ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 148.420 Authorization of conveyance. If a person who is bound by contract in writing to convey or transfer property dies before making the conveyance or transfer, and the decedent, if living, ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 148.430 Petition and notice.
1. The personal representative, or the person claiming to be entitled to the conveyance or transfer, may file with the clerk a petition setting forth the ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 148.440 Hearing and order.
1. At the time appointed, the court, upon proof that due notice of the hearing has been given, shall hear the petition and any objection that ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 148.450 Effect of order; execution of order.
1. The order is prima facie evidence of the correctness of the proceedings and of the authority of the personal representative to make ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 148.500 Authorization to exchange: Petition; notice. If it appears advantageous to the estate to exchange any property of the estate for other property, the court may authorize the exchange, upon petition ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 149.010 Authorization to borrow; purposes warranting borrowing; joint borrowing.
1. If it appears to be to the advantage of the estate to borrow money upon a note or notes, unsecured ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 149.020 Petition.
1. The personal representative or an interested person shall file a petition showing: (a) The particular purpose or purposes for which the order is sought. (b) ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 149.030 Hearing and order.
1. At the time appointed, the court, upon proof that due notice of the hearing has been given, shall proceed to hear the petition and any ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 149.040 Execution of instruments. The personal representative shall execute, acknowledge and deliver the mortgage or other security, as directed, setting forth therein that it is made by authority of the order, ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 149.050 Effect of proceedings under NRS 149.010 to 149.050, inclusive.
1. A mortgage or security agreement so made is effectual to mortgage or subject to the security agreement ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 149.060 Authorization to lease. If it appears to be to the advantage of the estate to lease any real property of the decedent, and as often as occasion arises in the ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 149.070 Petition.
1. To obtain such an order the personal representative or an interested person shall file a petition, showing the advantage to accrue from giving the lease, a general ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 149.080 Hearing on petition; order directing personal representative to make lease; terms of lease; recordation of copy of order.
1. At the time appointed, the court shall hear the petition ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 149.090 Execution of lease; effect of omission, error or irregularity in proceedings.
1. The personal representative shall execute, acknowledge and deliver the lease as directed, setting forth therein that it ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 149.100 Lease without court order. A personal representative may lease property without an order of court if the tenancy is from month to month, or for a term not to exceed ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 150.010 Expenses and compensation of personal representative. The personal representative must be allowed all necessary expenses in the administration and settlement of the estate, and fees for services as provided by ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 150.020 General compensation.
1. If no compensation is provided by the will, or the personal representative renounces all claims thereto, fees must be allowed upon the whole amount of the ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 150.030 Compensation for extraordinary services. Such further allowances may be made as the court deems just and reasonable for any extraordinary services, such as:
1. Management, sales or mortgages of ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 150.040 Contracts for higher compensation void. A contract between a personal representative and an heir or devisee for a higher compensation than that allowed by NRS 150.020 and 150.030 is void. ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 150.050 Allowance on compensation.
1. A personal representative, at any time after the issuance of letters and upon such notice to the interested persons as the court requires, may apply ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 150.060 Attorneys for personal representatives and minor, absent, unborn, incapacitated or nonresident heirs.
1. Attorneys for personal representatives are entitled to reasonable compensation for their services, to be paid out ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 150.070 Liability of personal representative; accounting required for property sold over inventoried value.
1. A personal representative is accountable for the whole estate that comes into the possession of the ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 150.075 Waiver of accounting. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the court may waive the requirement of any accounting if all interested persons agree in writing to the waiver. ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 150.080 First account: Filing and contents. Within 6 months after the appointment of a personal representative, or sooner if required by the court, upon its own motion or upon the petition ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 150.100 Penalties for failure to file first account.
1. If the personal representative fails to file the first account within the time specified in NRS 150.080, the court shall order ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 150.105 Annual account: Contents. Until all remaining property is delivered pursuant to an order of final distribution, a personal representative shall file with the court, annually, an account showing the income ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 150.110 Final account: Filing; penalties for failure to file.
1. If all the property of an estate has been sold or there is money available for the payment of all ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 150.115 Supplementary account to final account. A supplementary account of any receipts and disbursements by the personal representative since the filing of his final account must be filed before or at ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 150.120 Accounting when authority of personal representative ceases. If the authority of a personal representative ceases or is revoked for any reason, the personal representative may be cited by the court ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 150.130 Accounts of deceased or incapacitated personal representative: Accounting by personal representative, guardian or attorney.
1. If a personal representative dies or becomes incapacitated, the accounts may be presented to ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 150.140 Revocation of letters when personal representative absconds and fails to account. If the personal representative absconds, or if, after reasonable diligence, he cannot be found, so that a citation cannot ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 150.150 Vouchers for payments: Filing not required; examination and audit; lost or unavailable.
1. A personal representative need not file vouchers with the court to substantiate payments made in the ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 150.160 Account and petition for settlement: Hearing and notice.
1. If an account and a petition for settlement thereof is filed, the clerk shall set the petition for hearing and ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 150.170 Contest of account: Rights of interested person; hearing.
1. An interested person may appear and file written objections to the account and contest it. 2. Upon the hearing, ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 150.180 Appointment of attorney to represent minor, unborn, incapacitated or absent heirs and devisees; fees.
1. If a minor is interested in the estate who has no legally appointed guardian, ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 150.190 Proof of notice necessary before allowance of account. No account may be allowed by the court until it is first proved that the notice required by this chapter has been ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 150.200 Allowance and confirmation of account. If an account comes before the court for allowance and there are no objections filed by any interested person, and the account is made to ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 150.210 Effect of order settling account. An order settling and allowing an account, when it becomes final, is conclusive against all interested persons, but a person under legal disability has the ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 150.225 Payments to be made according to will; sources of payment if provision or property of will insufficient.
1. If a testator makes provision by will, or designates property to ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 150.230 Duty to pay certain expenses, allowances, debts and claims upon receipt of sufficient money; discretion to pay certain smaller debts; funeral expenses and expenses of last illness not charged to ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 150.240 Order of court for payment of debts; treatment of classes of creditors; discharge of personal representative upon compliance with order if property of estate exhausted.
1. Upon the settlement ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 150.250 Claims not yet due and contingent or disputed claim.
1. If there is a claim not due, or any contingent or disputed claims against the estate, the amount thereof, ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 150.260 Liability of personal representative.
1. If an order is entered by the court for the payment of creditors, the personal representative is personally liable to each creditor for the ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 150.270 Claim not included in order of payment. After the accounts of the personal representative have been settled and an order entered for the payment of debts and distribution of the ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 150.280 Closing administration.
1. If all the debts and liabilities of an estate have been paid, and the estate is in a condition to be closed, the court shall direct ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 150.290 Short title. NRS 150.290 to 150.380, inclusive, may be cited as the Federal Estate Tax Apportionment Law. ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 150.300 Definitions. As used in NRS 150.290 to 150.380, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. “Gross estate” or “estate” means all property included for federal estate tax purposes in ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 150.310 Proration of tax among persons interested in estate; exceptions.
1. If it appears upon any accounting, or in any appropriate action or proceeding, that a personal representative, trustee or ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 150.320 Direction for apportionment of estate tax: Precedence; limitation.
1. A testator, settlor, or possessor of any appropriate power of appointment may direct how the estate tax shall be apportioned ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 150.330 Jurisdiction of court; methods of proration.
1. The proration must be made by the court having jurisdiction of any property in the estate in the proportion that the value ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 150.340 Present and future estates: Charge of tax against corpus without apportionment.
1. In cases where a trust is created, or other provision made whereby any person is given any ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 150.350 Property not possessed by personal representative: Recovery from person in possession or interested in estate; court may direct payment; expenses.
1. If any property required to be included in ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 150.360 Court order directing amounts of tax to be charged against or paid by takers of estate.
1. The court, upon making a determination as provided in NRS 150.290 to ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 150.370 Retention of jurisdiction by court. The court shall retain jurisdiction until the purposes of NRS 150.290 to 150.380, inclusive, have been accomplished. ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 150.380 Apportionment of tax and expenses imposed and incurred on property located or administered in this state in estate of nonresident. Tax imposed and expenses incurred by reason of inclusion for ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 151.003 Order of priority for payment of devises. The property of a testator, except as otherwise provided in this title, must be resorted to for the payment of devises in the ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 151.005 Agreement by distributees to alter interests, shares or amounts to which they are otherwise entitled under terms of will: Requirements; exceptions; personal representative to abide by terms. Subject to the ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 151.010 Petition for partial distribution; bond.
1. At any time after the lapse of 3 months from the issuing of letters, the personal representative or any heir or devisee, or ... Nevada Revised Statutes Section 151.020 Petition for hearing and notice of hearing. The clerk shall set the petition for hearing and the petitioner shall give notice for the period and in the manner provided in ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 151.030 Contest of petition. The personal representative, if not the petitioner, or an interested person, may object to the petition, or an heir or devisee may submit a similar petition. ...
Nevada Revised Statutes Section 151.040 Order for distribution: Prerequisites to order; bond; assumption of personal liability by heir or devisee. 1. |