125.184 - Summary proceeding for divorce: Entry of final judgment. - Nevada Statutes

125.184  Summary proceeding for divorce: Entry of final judgment.

      1.  Entry of the final judgment upon a petition for a summary proceeding for divorce constitutes a final adjudication of the rights and obligations of the parties with respect to the status of the marriage and the property rights of the parties and waives the respective rights of the parties to written notice of entry of the judgment or decree, to appeal, to request findings of fact and conclusions of law and to move for a new trial.

      2.  A final judgment entered pursuant to this section does not prejudice or bar the rights of either of the parties to institute an action to set aside the final judgment for fraud, duress, accident, mistake or other grounds recognized at law or in equity.

      (Added to NRS by 1983, 416; A 1987, 1181)

      NRS 125.185  Valid divorce in Nevada not subject to contest or attack by third persons not parties to divorce.  No divorce from the bonds of matrimony heretofore or hereafter granted by a court of competent jurisdiction of the State of Nevada, which divorce is valid and binding upon each of the parties thereto, may be contested or attacked by third persons not parties thereto.

      (Added to NRS by 1959, 554)