Presumptions generally: Effect; direct evidence
Applied in 11 court decisions — leading case Law Offices of Barry Levinson, P.C. v. Milko (2008)
Most recently applied in 141 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 20 - IN RE: PARENTAL RIGHTS AS TO R.A.S. (April 2025)
(Added to NRS by 1971, 777)
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
1. A presumption, other than a presumption against the accused in a criminal action, imposes on the party against whom it is directed the burden of proving that the nonexistence of the presumed fact is more probable than its existence.
2. As applied to presumptions, “direct evidence” means evidence which tends to establish the existence or nonexistence of the presumed fact independently of the basic facts.
Official source: Nevada Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Nevada statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.