Your state’s pack. New issues arrive periodically on Mondays. Bookmark it. I built this for the Nevada T&E solo who knows Nevada’s own probate code (NRS Title 12) cold but still loses an afternoon a week hunting the current homestead number, the Nevada Medicaid posture, whether the latest opinion from the State Bar of Nevada changes how you scope an engagement, or whether a recent Nevada Court of Appeals decision just moved the law on capacity, undue influence, or a trustee’s duties. What’s below is what mattered in Nevada lately — the week’s developments and the recent rulings from the bench.
For licensed attorneys. This pack is general legal information and professional commentary for practicing attorneys — it is not legal advice, does not apply to any specific matter, and creates no attorney-client relationship. Verify every authority against the cited primary source before relying on it with a client. Published by Mike Moss, a Utah-admitted attorney, as an AI-enablement information product; it is not an offer of legal services and is not a representation that the author is admitted to practice in your jurisdiction.
Three developments from the last seven days that I think actually matter to a Nevada T&E solo. Each one has a read that lands on your practice specifically — and each one comes with the citation so you can verify the detail yourself before you use it with a client.
Per the official Nevada Medicaid provider announcement, SB494 (signed June 11, 2025) created the Nevada Health Authority and consolidated Medicaid, Medicaid eligibility, the Silver State Health Insurance Exchange, and PEBP. Effective July 1, 2025, the former Division of Health Care Financing and Policy operates as ‘Nevada Medicaid’ under the NVHA.
Nothing in the eligibility or estate-recovery statutes changed in substance, but the agency name, masthead, and contact points did. Update client letters, intake checklists, and authorization forms that still name ‘DHCFP’ to ‘Nevada Medicaid / Nevada Health Authority’ so the paperwork is not bounced as out of date.
Nevada Medicaid · Web Announcement 3661 · MEDICAID.NV.GOV
The 83rd Session convened Feb. 3, 2025 and adjourned sine die June 3, 2025. The State Bar Probate & Trust Law Section advanced amendments to Title 12 that broadened who may be appointed to administer an intestate estate and raised the dollar thresholds for summary administration versus full probate, easing small-estate handling.
Re-check your summary-administration intake math against the new thresholds before steering a small estate toward full probate — an estate that needed formal administration last year may now qualify for the lighter track, saving the family time and fees.
Nevada Legislature · 83rd (2025) Session · Signed by Governor · LEG.STATE.NV.US
NRS 115.010 protects up to $605,000 of equity in a claimant’s primary dwelling (unlimited where allodial title is established and not relinquished). This is a fixed statutory figure, not CPI-indexed — last raised from $550,000 by S.B. 197 (2021), effective July 1, 2021.
In a community-property state with no elective share, the homestead is a primary creditor-protection lever for a married couple’s residence. Confirm the figure against the live statute each cycle, since it moves only by legislative amendment and a stale number understates the protection.
Nevada Revised Statutes · NRS 115.010 · LEG.STATE.NV.US
Decisions from the courts that bind a Nevada practitioner — the Nevada Supreme Court and the Nevada Court of Appeals, the U.S. District Court for Nevada, and the Ninth Circuit — read for what actually changes how you draft, advise, and plan. Trusts and estates broadly, not Medicaid alone: wills and capacity, undue influence, fiduciary duty, trust construction, and estate recovery. One read, the holding, and the official cite.
Across the Nevada Supreme Court, the Nevada Court of Appeals, the U.S. District Court for Nevada, and the Ninth Circuit, no qualifying trusts-and-estates or estate-recovery decision surfaced for this period that the lane could verify against an official reporter. Per the lane’s no-invent rule, this row says so plainly rather than inflating a holding.
Nothing to re-paper from the bench this period; controlling authority is unchanged.
Awaiting verified weekly signal — CourtListener used for discovery only, never cited as authority.
No qualifying Nevada Supreme Court, Nevada Court of Appeals, U.S. District Court, or Ninth Circuit trusts-and-estates or estate-recovery decision was verified against an official reporter during the trailing window. The lane reads-and-discards Medicaid program/provider litigation as not T&E.
There is nothing new from the bench to re-paper into your forms or advice this period; rely on existing controlling authority until the next verified decision lands.
Official Nevada reporters · nvcourts.gov — CourtListener used for discovery only, never cited as authority.
This week in Nevada for the T&E solo with Nevada Medicaid clients: the developments from the State Bar of Nevada and Nevada Medicaid (Nevada Health Authority) that actually moved your practice this period — each one primary-source verified.
Bar and Medicaid changes land on different schedules and aren’t indexed by practice focus. Every item here was checked against its primary source, with the link, so you can verify before relying on it.