• JUSTICE / MUNICIPAL CIVIL COURT COVER SHEET

  • I. Party Information (provide both home and mailing addresses if different)

  • Plaintiff(s) name/address/phone
    Name:   
             
    Address:      
    Phone:      
    E-mail Address:      

    Plaintiff(s) Attorney name/address/phone
    Name:      
    Address:      
    Phone:      
    Law Firm/Bar #:      
    E-mail Address:      

  • Defendant(s) name/address/phone:
    Name:
                
    Address:      
    Phone:      
    E-mail Address:      

    Defendant(s) Attorney name/address/phone:
    Name:      
    Address:      
    Phone:      
    Law Firm/Bar #:      
    E-mail Address:      

  • II. Nature of Controversy (please select the one most applicable filing type below)

    Civil Case Filing Types
  • Date:   Pick a Date   
    Signature of initiating party or representative:      

  • Civil Case Filing Types - Definitions:

  • Landlord/Tenant (Summary Eviction): A case for exclusion of a tenant for default of rent or other deficiency following as in NRS 40.253 and 40.254. These are eviction cases where a landlord cannot get a money judgment.
  • Unlawful Detainer Complaint (Writs of Restitution): A case involving a formal complaint alleging the occupant's right to possess a property has been terminated after the foreclosure or sale of a property. This category includes evictions of commercial tenants on any basis other than nonpayment of rent.
  • Other Real Property: A case involving disputes of real property that does not fit within the definitions of Landlord/Tenant or Unlawful Detainer Complaint.
  • Credit Card Collection: A debt collection case where the petitioner is a credit card company.
  • Payday Loan Collection: A debt collection case where the petitioner is a payday loan company.
  • Debt Collection Agency: A debt collection case where the petitioner is a debt collection agency.
  • Other Debt Collection: A debt collection case that does not fit within the definitions of any other debt collection case category. This category includes tax collection cases.
  • Contract Buyer Plaintiff: A contract case (expressed or implied) involving a buyer of goods or services alleging that a seller of goods or services has failed to either deliver said goods or services or honor a warranty.
  • Other Contract Case: A contract case (expressed or implied) that does not fit within the definitions of a Contract Buyer Plaintiff case.
  • Auto: A negligence case resulting from personal injury, property damage, or wrongful death arising out of a party's alleged negligent operation of a motor vehicle.
  • Premises Liability: A negligence case involving liability resulting from alleged negligence on property that results in damages or injuries to persons or property occupying said property.
  • Other Negligence: A negligence case that does not fit within the definitions of Auto negligence or Premises Liability.
  • Intentional Misconduct: A case involving issues of an alleged intentional misconduct. Examples include assault, battery, fraud, punitive damages, defamation, libel, and slander.
  • Other Torts: A case that does not fit within the definitions of any other negligence case type or Intentional Misconduct.
  • Contested Liens Case: A case that contests the validity of liens, or requests the enforcement of liens. Examples include the enforcement of mechanics' liens (NRS 108.239) and liens of owners of storage facilities, or to contest the validity of liens on mobile and manufactured homes.
  • District Court Order to Seal Records: An order from the District Court to the Justice or Municipal Court which directs the Justice or Municipal Court to seal their records. Original Petitions to Seal Records should be counted as "Other Civil Matters."
  • Petition to Seal Records: A case that involves a request to seal records of a previous court case or other matters under the courts jurisdiction. Orders by the district courts to seal records should selec the District Court Order to Seal Records case type instead.
  • Other Civil Matters: A case that involves a matter that does not fit within the definitions of any other civil case category. This includes "Confessions of Judgment" and Petitions to Seal Records.
  • Request for Domestic Violence Protective Order: A protection order application for a temporary order for protection from a person who has committed or may commit an act of domestic violence (including battery). (Refer to NRS 33.020, 33.030, 33.080, 33.100, and 200.481.)
  • Request for Protection Order (Non-Domestic Violence): A protection order application for a temporary order for protection from a person who has or may commit an act of harassment, stalking, or threat to life not related to domestic violence or sexual assault.
  • Sexual Assault Protection Orders: A protection order application for an order for protection against a person who has or may commit an act related to sexual assault. (Refer to NRS 193.166 and 200.378).
  • Requests for Extended Domestic Violence Protective Orders: A protection order case involving a request for an extended order for protection against domestic violence (including battery). (Refer to NRS 33.020, 33.030, 33.080, 33.100, and 200.481.)
  • Requests for Extended Protective Orders (Non- Domestic Violence): A protection order case involving a request for an extended order for protection against harassment, stalking, or threat to life not related to domestic violence.
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    Pursuant to JCRCP 3

    Ver. 3.1

  • APPLICATION FOR PROTECTION

  • IN THE JUSTICE COURT OF THE SPARKS TOWNSHIP
    COUNTY OF WASHOE, STATE OF NEVADA

  • Applicant (print your name),

                         

  • vs.
  • Adverse Party (print the name of the person you want protection from).

                                       

  • 1. Your information ( you are the "Applicant").

    Your name:   
                       

  • 2. Who do you want to be protected from (this person is the "Adverse Party"):

    Name:   
                            

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  • 4. Why do you need to be protected from the person named above (you must check one)?

  • committed acts of stalking or aggravated stalking against me.
     Definition of stalking, aggravated stalking and harassment:

    Stalking: A person commits the crime of stalking when, without lawful authority, that person willfully or maliciously engages in a course of conduct directed towards a victim that would cause a reasonable person under similar circumstances to feel terrorized, frightened, intimidated, harassed or fearful for his or her immediate safety or the immediate safety of a family or household member, and that actually causes the victim to feel terrorized, frightened, intimidated, harassed or fearful for his or her immediate safety or the immediate safety of a family or household member. NRS 200.575(1)

    Aggravated Stalking: A person who commits the crime of stalking and in conjunction there with threatens the person with the intent to cause the person to be placed in reasonable fear of death or substantial bodily. NRS 200.575(2)

    Harassment: A person commits harassment when: (a) Without lawful authority, the person knowingly threatens: (1) To cause bodily injury in the future to the person threatened or to any other person; (2) To cause physical damage to the property of another person; (3) To subject the person threatened or any other person to physical confinement or restraint; or (4) To do any act which is intended to substantially harm the person threatened or any other person with respect to his or her physical or mental health or safety; and (b) The person by words or conduct places the person receiving the threat in reasonable fear that the threat will be carried out. NRS 200.571

  • committed a sexual assault on me.

     Definition of sexual assault: A person commits sexual assault if they subject another person to sexual penetration, or forces another person to make a sexual penetration on himself or herself or another, or on a beast, against the will of the victim or under conditions in which the perpetrator knows or should know that the victim is mentally or physically incapable of resisting or understanding the nature of his or her conduct. NRS 200.366

  •  The parent or guardian of a child may petition any court of competent jurisdiction on behalf of the child for a temporary or extended order against a person who is 18 years of age or older and who the parent or guardian reasonably believes has committed or is committing a crime involving: (a) Physical or mental injury to the child of a nonaccidental nature; or (b) Sexual abuse or sexual exploitation of the child. NRS 33.400

  • As you complete the application, please keep in mind that you are filling in the questions as they pertain to the actions/incident committed upon the child.

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  • 5. How do you know the person you need protection from (check all that apply)?
     Explain       
       
       
       
     (specify relationship):           

  • 6. Are there any other current or prior court cases that involve you and the Adverse Party in any court?

     
    If you know, please list the case type, county, state, and case number:         

  • 7. Firearms/Guns.
    Does the Adverse Party own a gun or have a gun in his/her possession or control?

                

  • 8. Most Recent Event. Think about the most recent event. These questions ask about the most recent event only.

    Approximate date it happened:         
    City/State/Location where it happened:      
    Did the other person use or threaten to use a weapon?         

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  • 9. Past Event(s).

    Think about any other times the person you want protection from threatened or abused you and/or the child/children. The following questions ask about any past events that may have happened.

  • 10. Law enforcement involvement.

    Was law enforcement informed?      

    a. If so, please provide a copy of the police/incident report.
    Was anyone arrested?       (Who):    
    Is the Adverse Party in jail?                

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  • 11. Temporary Protections requested (check all that apply).

    Do not list any confidential addresses.

    The other person will get a copy of this application and will see any addresses you write down.


    The Adverse Party should not threaten, physically injure, or harass me and/or the minor child, either directly or through someone acting on his/her behalf.   

    The Adverse Party should not contact me and/ or the minor child at all, either in person, by phone/text, by email or through social media.

    The Adverse Party should stay away from my current residence.

     Do you and the Adverse Party live together?    
    If yes, whose name is listed on the lease/title?      

    Does the Adverse Party know where you live?      
    If no, is your address confidential?     
    Address:    
    City, State, Zip:    
    County:       

  • Do you and the Adverse Party live in the same complex/property/trailer park?

     Should the Adverse Party stay away from the entire complex/property/trailer park?          

     If so, explain the distance and need for protection in that complex/property/trailer park:        

  •    

    I need to get my belongings. I want law enforcement to come with me to the Adverse Party's residence so I can pick up my belongings. The address I need to go to is (list street address, apartment number, city, state, zip):      


    The other party needs to get his/her belongings. Law enforcement should come with the Adverse Party to my residence to pick up his/her belongings.     

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  •  The Adverse Party should stay away from workplace.  

    Do you and the Adverse Party work at the same place?       
    Is your work address confidential?   (do not write details below)

    Employer:      
    Address:      
    City, State, Zip Code:      
    County:      

    Employer:      
    Address:      
    City, Sate, Zip Code:    
    County:       

  • The Adverse Party should stay away from my school and/or the child's school/daycare.

    Is the school/daycare address confidential?     (do not write details below) 

    School/Daycare:      
    Address:      
    City, State, Zip Code:      
    County:      

    School/Daycare:      
    Address:      
    City, State, Zip Code:      
    County:      

  •  The Adverse Party should stay away from the following places that I and/or the minor children go to regularly.
     
    Location:      
    Why?      
    Address:      
    City, State, Zip Code:     
    County:         

    Location:      
    Why?      
    Address:      
    City, State, Zip Code:      
    County:      

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  • About Extended Protection Orders:

    This application automatically asks the jduge to issue up to a 45-day temporary protection order

    without notifying the other person first. 

    You can also ask for an extended order that could last for up to 2 years. 

    If you do, the judge will set a hearing. You and the other person will have to appear in court and explain your side before the judge can extend the protection order. 

  • 13. Other Exhibits. You may attach documents, pictures, or anything else that you would like the judge to look at and consider when reviewing your application. The Adverse Party will receive a copy of all documents/evidence you provide.

    Describe what you are attaching:      

  • 14. This document does not contain the personal information of any person as defined by NRS 603A.040.

  • I declare under penalty of perjury under the law of the State of Nevada that the foregoing is true and correct.

    Date:   Pick a Date   
    Submitted by:         
    Print Name:      

  • VERIFICATION

    I declare that I am the applicant in the above-entitled action; that I have read the foregoing application and know the contents thereof; that the pleading is true of my own knowledge, except for those matters therein contained stated upon information and belief, and that as to those matters, I believe them to be true. I declare under penalty of perjury under the law of the State of Nevada that the foregoing is true and correct. 

  • Dated:   Pick a Date   
    Submitted by:      
    Print Name:      

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  • WASHOE COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE

    CIVIL SECTION

    INSTRUCTIONS FOR SERVICE

    PLEASE FILL OUT COMPLETELY

  • Name of Person Being Served

    Name:    
                      

  •       

  • Last Known Address

    Street:      
    City:      
    State:      
    Zip:      

    Phone(s) w/Area Code
          

    Need Interpreter?         
    Language:      

    Employer Name
       

    Employer Address
    Street:      
    City:      
    State:      
    Zip:      

    Work
    Hours:      
    Phone:               

    Vehicle License Number:      
    Vehicle Make and Model:      
    Vehicle Color:      
    Vehicle Year:      
    Driver's License Number:      
    State:      

  • Does the restrained person have a disability, brain injury, or impairment requiring special assistance when law enforcement serves the order?
       
    If yes, describe:         

  • Location of Weapons:
       

       
    Describe in detail:         

  • Plaintiff/Applicant Information

    Name:   
                      

  •       

  • If your information is not confidential, you must enter your address and phone number(s)

    Current Address
    Street:      
    City:      
    State:      
    Zip:      

    Phone(s) w/Area Code
          

    Need Interpreter?        
    Language:      

    If your information is confidential, you must provide the name, address, and phone number of someone willing to be your "contact".

    Contact Name:   

    Contact Address
    Street:      
    City:      
    State:      
    Zip:      

    Contact Phone:
          

  • CONFIDENTIAL PROTECTION ORDER INFORMATION

    Law Enforcement: Do not serve this sheet with documents to be delivered.

    Applicant: Print clearly all the information you know. This helps law enforcement locate and serve the Adverse Party. 

  • YOUR INFORMATION

  • Your Name (OBO Minor Child):

    Name:  
                      

  •             

  • Birthdate
    //   

    Social Security Number

    --   

    Race:      

    Address:                  

    Mailing Address (if different):      

    Home Phone:      
    Cell Phone:      
    Work Phone:      

    Email Address:      
    I prefer to be notified of future Court dates by         

  • ADVERSE PARTY INFORMATION

  • Adverse Party Name

    Name:  
                     

  •             

  • Birthdate:
    //         

    Social Security Number
    --         

  • Home Address:   

    Is this address difficult to find?
              Explain:        

    Mailing Address (if different):      

    Other Likely Address:      

    Home Phone:   
    Cell Phone:      
    Work Phone:      

    Employer:      
    Position:      
    Work Days:      
    Work Hours:      
    Work Address:      

    Scars/Marks/Tattoos (description and location):      

    Vehicle Make:      
    Model:      
    Year:      
    License Plate Number/State:      

  • Do you live with the Adverse Party now?
          

    Have you ever lived with Adverse Party?
             

    Does the Adverse Party speak English?
          What language does he/she speak?      

    Do you work for the same employer?
          

    Is the Adverse Party likely to act violently when served?
          

    Is the Adverse Party likely to avoid service?
          

    Does the Adverse Party have a CCW Permit?
          

    Does the Adverse Party have access to weapons?
          If yes, please describe type and location of weapon(s):
       

    Does the Adverse Party have a history of violent behavior or crimes?
          If yes, explain:      

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