Paola M. ArmeniLegal Aid Center of Southern Nevada provides these pleadings as samples only. They are intended for use by attorneys representing children through the Pro Bono Project. These pleadings may contain legal authority that is no longer controlling or be based on information that is not relevant to your case. The information is believed to be current. However, nothing should substitute for reference to Nevada statutory or case law. When in doubt, please contact the Pro Bono at probono@lacsn.org to be connected with your attorney mentor who can answer questions regarding current law or current practice in the Eighth Judicial District.
Initial CAP Pleadings
Motions and Petitions
- Petition to Restore Parental Rights
- Ex Parte Motion for Order Shortening Time
- Ex Parte Motion to Request CD-ROM
- Motion for Lack or Reasonable Efforts – Failure to Place Siblings Together
- Motion for Order Granting Permission to Travel
- Motion for Order to Show Cause
- Motion for Order to Show Cause Against Parent
- Motion for Sibling Visitation Before Adoption
- Motion for Sibling Visitation
- Motion for Relative Placement
- Motion for Sibling Placement Together
- Motion to Join Desert Regional Center
- Motion to Testify by Alternative Methods
- Motion to Testify by Alternative Methods – No Therapist Letter
- Motion for Medical Treatment – Anesthesia
- Motion for Normalcy – Piercing
- Motion to Place on Calendar
- Motion to Suspend Visitation
- Motion for Appointment of Education Decision Maker
- Motion for DFS to Pay State Allocated Allowance
- Joinder to Motion for TPR
- Motion to Vaccinate Subject Minor(s)
Stipulations and Orders
- Order for Independent Psychiatric Evaluation
- Order for Sibling Visitation
- Order for Sibling Visitation – Different States
- Order Shortening Time
- Order to Testify by Alternative Methods
- Order to Travel and Passport – Status Check Hearing
- Order to Travel and Passport – Motion Hearing
- Order Regarding Education Decision Maker
- Stipulation & Order – Sibling Visitation
- Stipulation & Order – Continue Trial
- Stipulation & Order – Medical Treatment
- Stipulation & Order – Passport & Travel
- Stipulation & Order – Place Matter on Calendar
- Stipulation & Order – Testify by Alternative Methods
Miscellaneous
- Opposition to Foster Parent’s Motion to Intervene
- Opposition to Motion to Waive Reasonable Efforts
- Opposition to Motion to Terminate Jurisdiction and End Voluntary Services
- Opposition to Placement with Father
- Pretrial Memo – Multiple Clients
- Pretrial Memo – Single Client
- Response to Permanency Report – Single Client
- Response to Permanency – Multiple Clients