Keenan v. Keenan
Nevada Supreme Court
Appeal from Ninth Judicial District Court, White Pine County; C. J. MeFadden, Judge. Action by Emma G. Keenan against William M. Keenan and others. From a judgment for defendants, plaintiff appeals. The statute provides that upon the granting of a divorce the community property shall be divided equally. (Rev. Laws, 2166.) The complaint in partition must be recognized as stating a cause of .action, whether the State of Nevada recognizes appellant’s decree of divorce or not.
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Appeal from Ninth Judicial District Court, White Pine County; C. J. MeFadden, Judge. Action by Emma G. Keenan against William M. Keenan and others. From a judgment for defendants, plaintiff appeals. The statute provides that upon the granting of a divorce the community property shall be divided equally. (Rev. Laws, 2166.) The complaint in partition must be recognized as stating a cause of .action, whether the State of Nevada recognizes appellant’s decree of divorce or not. The decree finds that respondent refused to support appellant and her children, and that he advertised in the newspapers…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
McCarran, C. J.:
This action was presumably brought under the statute of this state (section 2166, Revised Laws of Nevada, 1912), which we find to be as follows:
“In case of the dissolution of the marriage by decree of any court of competent jurisdiction, the community property must be equally divided between the parties, and the court granting the decree must make such order for the division of the community property, or the sale and equal distribution of the proceeds thereof, as the nature of the cáse may require; provided, that when the decree *354of divorce is rendered on the…
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