Nevada Revised Statutes

Nev. Rev. Stat. § 126.036 (2026)

Liberty interest of parent in care, custody and management of parent’s child is fundamental right

✓ current as of July 2026
Find cases: SyfertCases citing this section NRSleg.state.nv.us (official) Justiaon Justia CornellLII Search CasesGoogle Scholar
NRS 126.036  Liberty interest of parent in care, custody and management of parent’s child is fundamental right.

      1.  The liberty interest of a parent in the care, custody and management of the parent’s child is a fundamental right.

      2.  Nothing in this section shall be construed to:

      (a) Authorize a parent to engage in any unlawful conduct or to abuse or neglect a child in violation of the laws of this State.

      (b) Prohibit courts, law enforcement officers or employees of an agency which provides child welfare services from acting in their official capacity within the scope of their authority.

      3.  Except as otherwise provided by specific statute, the provisions of this section apply to any statute, local ordinance or regulation and the implementation of such statute, local ordinance or regulation regardless of whether such statute, local ordinance or regulation was adopted or effective before, on or after October 1, 2013.

      4.  As used in this section, “agency which provides child welfare services” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 432B.030.

      (Added to NRS by 2013, 2253)

     

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3 cases, 2014–2014 · leading case: Druckman v. Ruscitti, 2014 NV 50 (Nev. 2014).
Druckman v. Ruscitti, 2014 NV 50 (Nev. 2014). · cites it 2× “3d 213, 221 (2009); NRS 126.036(1). Accordingly, in seeking the district court's resolution of this custody dispute, Audria and Ian appeared before the court holding equal custody rights over their child 3 Wenote that under NRS 126.”
Druckman v. Ruscitti, 2014 NV 50 (Nev. 2014). “3 We note that under NRS 126.031(2)(a), an unmarried mother has primary physical custody unless an order determining paternity has been entered.”
Frudden v. Pilling (Nev. 2014). “Nor have the Fruddens shown that NRS 126.036, which codifies the fundamental right to raise one's child, allows them to challenge Roy Gomm's policies.”
— Nev. Rev. Stat. § 126.036(1) — 2 cases
Druckman v. Ruscitti, 2014 NV 50 (Nev. 2014). “3d 213, 221 (2009); NRS 126.036(1). Accordingly, in seeking the district court's resolution of this custody dispute, Audria and Ian appeared before the court holding equal custody rights over their child 3 Wenote that under NRS 126.”
Druckman v. Ruscitti, 2014 NV 50 (Nev. 2014). “3 We note that under NRS 126.031(2)(a), an unmarried mother has primary physical custody unless an order determining paternity has been entered.”
Annotations are extracted automatically from the opinions in the Syfert caselaw corpus and ranked by authority, recency, and treatment. Dots show Syfertize treatment of the citing case itself.