1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, domestic partners who wish to terminate a domestic partnership registered pursuant to NRS 122A.100 or is recognized pursuant to NRS 122A.500 must follow the procedures set forth in chapter 125 of NRS.
2. If a domestic partnership meets the criteria specified in subsection 3, domestic partners in a domestic partnership registered pursuant to NRS 122A.100 may terminate the domestic partnership by:
(a) Filing with the Office of the Secretary of State, on a form prescribed by the Secretary of State, a signed and notarized statement declaring that both persons have chosen of their own free will to terminate the domestic partnership; and
(b) Paying to the Office of the Secretary of State a reasonable filing fee established by the Secretary of State, which filing fee must not exceed the total of any administrative costs incurred by the Secretary of State.
3. For a domestic partnership to qualify for the simplified termination proceedings set forth in subsection 2, all of the following conditions must exist at the time of the filing pursuant to that subsection:
(a) The domestic partnership has been registered for 5 years or less.
(b) There are no minor children of the relationship of the parties born before or during the domestic partnership or adopted by the parties during the domestic partnership and no female member of the domestic partnership, to her knowledge, is pregnant, or the parties have executed an agreement as to the custody of any children and setting forth the amount and manner of their support.
(c) There is no community or joint property or the parties have executed an agreement setting forth the division of community property and the assumption of liabilities of the community, if any, and have executed any deeds, certificates of title, bills of sale or other evidence of transfer necessary to effectuate the agreement.
(d) The parties waive any rights to support or the parties have executed an agreement setting forth the amount and manner of support.
(e) The parties waive any right to the conduct of more comprehensive proceedings pursuant to chapter 125 of NRS.
(Added to NRS by 2009, 2186; A 2017, 290)
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