Clark County Department of Family Services v. Eighth Judicial District Court of the State of Nevada ex rel. County of Clark

OPINION

By the Court,

Gibbons, J.:

In this opinion, we address the juvenile court’s1 role when reviewing an objection to a dependency master’s findings of fact and recommendation in an abuse and neglect proceeding. Although the juvenile court may adopt the master’s findings of fact unless they *766are clearly erroneous, a master’s findings and recommendations are only advisory, and the juvenile court is not obligated to adopt them. The juvenile court ultimately must exercise its own independent judgment when deciding how to resolve a case. In the underlying matter, the juvenile court sustained the…