Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 136 - Probate of Wills and Petitions for Letters
NRS 136.030 - Disqualified judge required to transfer proceedings to qualified judge; duties, powers and jurisdiction of qualified judge.


1. If a district judge, who would otherwise be authorized to act, is precluded from acting from the causes mentioned in NRS 136.020, or if the judge is interested in any manner, the judge shall transfer all proceedings in the matter of the estate to another judge of the same county, if there is one, who is not disqualified to act in the settlement of the estate, or the judge shall request a judge of another district to hold the court in the other county.
2. The judge to whom the matter is transferred or the other district judge shall hold court and is vested with all the powers of the court and judge so disqualified, and retains jurisdiction as to all subsequent proceedings in regard to the estate.
[Part 97:107:1941; 1931 NCL § 9882.97]—(NRS A 1999, 2262)

Structure Nevada Revised Statutes

Nevada Revised Statutes

Chapter 136 - Probate of Wills and Petitions for Letters

NRS 136.010 - Determination of proper court.

NRS 136.020 - Disqualified judge.

NRS 136.030 - Disqualified judge required to transfer proceedings to qualified judge; duties, powers and jurisdiction of qualified judge.

NRS 136.040 - Transfer of proceedings back to original court.

NRS 136.050 - Delivery of will after death; liability for nondelivery; record of will; inspection of records.

NRS 136.060 - Order to produce will; penalty for failure to comply with order.

NRS 136.070 - Persons qualified to petition for probate.

NRS 136.090 - Petition for probate: Requirements; effect of defect.

NRS 136.100 - Petition for probate: Clerk to set for hearing; notice of hearing.

NRS 136.120 - Service of petition when petition presented by person other than named personal representative or by fewer than all named personal representatives.

NRS 136.130 - Attesting witnesses to will subpoenaed; unnecessary where self-proving affidavits.

NRS 136.140 - Proof of notice; witnesses to testify orally.

NRS 136.150 - Evidence of subscribing witnesses: Affidavits ex parte.

NRS 136.160 - Proof of will by affidavits of attesting witnesses.

NRS 136.170 - Proof of will when subscribing witnesses are unavailable.

NRS 136.180 - Proof of will by copy.

NRS 136.185 - Proof of electronic will.

NRS 136.190 - Proof of holographic will.

NRS 136.200 - Appointment of attorney to represent minors, unborn members of interested class or nonresidents; retention of other counsel.

NRS 136.210 - Translation and recording of will in foreign language.

NRS 136.220 - Admissibility of certified copy of will and order admitting will to probate.

NRS 136.225 - Applicability of provisions concerning revocation of certain transfers of real property based upon divorce or annulment to transfers of property pursuant to will.

NRS 136.230 - Jurisdiction of court to take proof of execution and validity of lost or destroyed will.

NRS 136.240 - Petition for probate; same requirement of proof as other wills; testimony of witnesses; rebuttable presumption concerning certain wills; prima facie showing that will was not revoked; order.

NRS 136.250 - Restraint of administration pending petition.

NRS 136.260 - Probate of foreign wills: Procedure.