When a spouse has given written authority to his or her spouse to appropriate to his or her own use the spouse’s earnings, the same, with the issues and profits thereof, is deemed a gift from one spouse to the other, and is, with such issues and profits, the latter spouse’s separate property.
NRS 123.190
Earnings of either spouse appropriated to own use pursuant to written authorization of other spouse deemed gift
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case Western States Construction, Inc. v. Michoff (1992)
Most recently applied in Hardy v. United States (February 1996)
[15:119:1873; B § 165; BH § 513; C § 524; RL § 2169; NCL § 3369]—(NRS A 1973, 1036; 2017, 762)
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Official source: Nevada Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Nevada statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.