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NRS 50.285

Opinions: Experts

Known as the Uniform Child Witness Testimony by Alternative Methods Act

The act spans §§ 50–50 (64 sections).

Applied in 13 court decisions — leading case Collman v. State (2000)

Most recently applied in IN RE: GUARDIANSHIP OF RUBIN (July 2021)

(Added to NRS by 1971, 793)

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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. The facts or data in the particular case upon which an expert bases an opinion or inference may be those perceived by or made known to the expert at or before the hearing.

2. If of a type reasonably relied upon by experts in forming opinions or inferences upon the subject, the facts or data need not be admissible in evidence.

Official source: Nevada Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Nevada statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.