Nev. Rev. Stat. § 127C.720 – Petition for approval of agreement of adoption; notice and hearing; waiver; order of adoption and change of name

1. The adopting person or the person to be adopted may file in the district court in the county in which either resides a petition praying for approval of the agreement of adoption by the issuance of an order of adoption.
2. The petition for adoption must state:
1. (a) The full names of the petitioners and the ages of the petitioners;
2. (b) That it is the desire of the petitioners that the relationship of parent and child be established between the petitioners;
3. (c) Whether the petitioner being adopted desires a name change, together with the new name desired, and if the petitioner being adopted desires an amended birth certificate;
4. (d) If the petitioner being adopted desires to add the adopting person as an additional parent or replace a specific parent on the birth certificate of the person being adopted; and
5. (e) That there has been full compliance with the law.
3. The court shall fix a time and place for a hearing on the petition, unless the hearing is waived by the court upon the request of the petitioners.
4. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3, both the person adopting and the person to be adopted shall appear at the hearing, but if such appearance is impossible or impractical, appearance may be made for either or both of such persons by counsel empowered in writing to make such appearance.
5. The court may require notice of the time and place of the hearing to be served on other interested persons, and any such interested person may appear and object to the proposed adoption.
6. At the hearing the court shall examine the parties, or the counsel of any party not present, as applicable, in person or by remote appearance. If the court is satisfied that the adoption will be for the best interest of the parties, and that there is no reason why the petition should not be granted, the court shall approve the agreement of adoption, and enter an order of adoption declaring that the person adopted is the child of the person adopting him or her and if requested, order a name change. Otherwise, the court shall withhold approval of the agreement and deny the prayer of the petition.

(Added to NRS by 1959, 606; A 1963, 892; 1967, 1148; 1973, 1406; 1993, 2684; 2025, 1546)—(Substituted in revision for NRS 127.210)