Emily McFarling

Represented a father in a fight over which state's courts could decide custody. The Nevada Court of Appeals agreed Nevada courts could decide, though the mother left with the children days before the six-month mark.

August 15, 2024

Source: acis-api.nvcourts.gov

Represented a wife who lost her divorce appeal at the Nevada Court of Appeals. The court ruled a judge could split a couple's family trust property in the divorce without making the trust a party.

November 30, 2023

Source: acis-api.nvcourts.gov

Represented a biological father in a Nevada Supreme Court case over a child's parentage. The court upheld a ruling that DNA tests made him the child's legal father. It also upheld his joint physical custody.

June 30, 2022

Source: acis-api.nvcourts.gov

Was named chair of two subcommittees on the Nevada Supreme Court's commission to update the rules for appeals. One covered fast-track child custody appeals. The other covered how appeals begin and how they settle.

November 22, 2021

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Won a Nevada Supreme Court ruling for a father suing a county child welfare worker. The court revived his civil rights and injury claims. It ruled he did not have to finish an agency appeal before going to court.

September 23, 2021

Source: acis-api.nvcourts.gov

Helped represent a foster child in a Nevada Supreme Court case about where she would live. The court set aside an order moving her to relatives in Georgia and ordered a new trial focused on her best interest.

May 3, 2018

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Won a reversal at the Nevada Court of Appeals for a mother who lost primary custody when the father sought to move. The court ruled the trial judge was wrong to shut out older facts, including domestic violence claims, when weighing the child's best interest.

April 5, 2018

Source: acis-api.nvcourts.gov

Represented an adoptive father who opposed his former partner's claim to be a parent of their child. The Nevada Supreme Court ruled against her client. It gave the former partner parental rights and joint custody under equitable adoption, a rule for promised but unfinished adoptions.

June 22, 2017

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Won a rehearing before the full Nevada Supreme Court for a father who lives and works in Africa. The court struck down limits on his visits and on the child's travel abroad. It said the trial judge gave no findings tying those limits to the child's best interest.

July 2, 2015

Source: acis-api.nvcourts.gov

Represented a mother whose change to primary custody was reversed by the Nevada Supreme Court. The court ruled a judge must find that changing a custody arrangement is in the child's best interest.

March 26, 2015

Source: acis-api.nvcourts.gov

Represented a mother in a Nevada Supreme Court appeal over child custody and a move out of state. The court upheld her primary custody and her move with the child. It reversed a fee penalty the trial judge had put on the father.

June 26, 2014

Source: acis-api.nvcourts.gov

Represented a father living in Japan in a Nevada Supreme Court custody appeal over three children. The court ruled Nevada could decide custody. It threw out a default divorce judgment against him because he had answered the case.

November 12, 2009

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Presented her rewrite of the fast-track rule for child custody appeals to the Nevada Supreme Court's appeals rules commission. The commission approved her draft, with two judges not voting.

September 28, 2023Favorable on Legal Competence

Source: nvcourts.gov