Nevada Judgments & Liens Search

Nevada judgments and liens: the court file, recorded instrument and enforcement history

A Nevada judgment search can produce several records about the same obligation: the court's judgment and docket, a certified judgment or abstract recorded against real estate, a writ directed to an employer or bank, and a later satisfaction or release. Those records answer different questions. Start with the court and case number, then examine the county recording index where the property lies. Compare the actual documents, their dates and the parties' identities before treating an index hit as an unpaid claim against a particular parcel.

The research below was checked on November 6, 2026. County recording charges, court copy prices and federal access charges are identified by product and office. Nevada statutes can contain a base charge while a county's published schedule adds authorized assessments. A court clerk's certification and a recorder's certification also have different prices. The local sections identify the offices for all seventeen county jurisdictions and the justice-court locations in the Nevada Judiciary directory.

Locate the court judgment before calculating its effect

Nevada's district courts and justice courts maintain their own case records. The monetary limits explain why a modest debt can appear in a township court while a larger civil dispute is in district court. NRS 4.370 gives justice courts jurisdiction over specified civil matters within a $15,000 limit, including the listed contract claims and qualifying mechanic's-lien foreclosure matters. Jurisdiction also depends on the kind of dispute; the statute contains exceptions involving title, boundaries and mining claims. The dollar amount alone does not settle the proper court.

The separate small-claims procedure is for recovery of money within the $10,000 ceiling in NRS 73.010. That section supplies venue choices tied to the defendant's residence, employment or business, the place of injury and the place where the contractual obligation was to be performed. A search should distinguish a small-claims case from a general civil case in the same justice court. The local filing schedules below price those two products separately. Neither a municipal traffic search nor an appellate opinion index supplies the complete civil docket of every Nevada trial court.

For a district-court case, NRCP 58 distinguishes an announced decision from an entered judgment. Entry requires a signed judgment filed with the clerk. The designated party ordinarily must serve notice of entry, with a copy, within fourteen days. Failure to serve that notice does not invalidate the judgment, but execution cannot issue until notice has been served. Ask for the filed judgment, the notice of entry and its proof of service when the enforcement timeline matters. A calendar entry saying that judgment was granted is not a substitute for those papers.

Read the judgment's principal award, costs, attorney fees, interest terms and any installment provision. Under NRS 17.130, where the governing contract or other applicable provision does not fix the rate, the statutory rate uses the Nevada Financial Institutions Commissioner's prime rate plus two percentage points and is adjusted at the statutory half-year intervals. The section distinguishes damages incurred before judgment from future damages when determining the starting point. Do not apply a displayed annual rate to every dollar from the filing date without checking that distinction.

The Second Judicial District Court's interest table gives 8.75% for ordinary judgment interest from July 1 through December 31, 2026. The Commissioner publishes the underlying prime-rate document through the Financial Institutions Division's rate page. Its linked July 1, 2026 prime-rate table shows 6.75%. These dates matter when a calculation spans January or July. Construction-lien interest has a different statutory addition, explained below; the ordinary judgment table should not be used indiscriminately.

How an ordinary money judgment becomes a real-property lien

NRS 17.150 requires the clerk to docket the judgment and record the time of docketing. A certified copy of a Nevada court judgment, or a judgment of the federal district court in Nevada, may then be recorded with the county recorder. The resulting lien reaches the judgment debtor's nonexempt real property in that county, including qualifying property acquired while the lien remains effective. Recording in one county does not create a recording entry in every other county where the debtor may own land.

The same section permits an abstract containing the court and action information, judgment entry date, parties, amount and docket location. It also requires an affidavit from a person with personal knowledge when the lien is created. The affidavit identifies the debtor and address, includes the specified last four digits of a driver's license or identification number and issuing state or Social Security number, and supplies the applicable property information. For existing real property, that includes the assessor's parcel number, address and confirmation of ownership. Manufactured-home information has its own location, serial-number and ownership requirements. A certified judgment and a suitable affidavit therefore belong on the recording checklist together.

The ordinary lien period is six years from docketing, subject to renewal and the section's exceptions. It is not six years from a later recorder stamp. The statute treats support arrearages differently, and it excludes the period of a qualifying suspension of execution when computing the lien period. It also addresses the effect of an appeal stay supported by the required undertaking. Examine the docket date, the recorded instrument, any stay and the renewal history before calculating an expiration date from an index's recording column.

A useful search record includes the debtor's exact name, the creditor's name, court case number, judgment date, docket date, recording number and county. Add the parcel number only as a second search path. A parcel field may be missing from an older index or added later through assessor information. Search assignments, renewal affidavits, releases, satisfactions and court orders under the original parties and any successor creditor. The statutory affidavit helps connect a judgment to property, but the recorder's acceptance does not adjudicate ownership or resolve competing claims.

NRS 247.110 governs reception, endorsement and recording order. It specifies the recording information and document-format rules, including page size, margins, readable printing and the first-page recording space. A document already filed in court and conforming to court requirements has a stated exception to the ordinary format requirements. The recorder also has limited discretion concerning a nonconforming instrument. Ask the receiving recorder how the certified court document and accompanying affidavit should be presented; a free watermarked research image is not automatically suitable for recording.

For a document the recorder determines to be unlawful or falsified, NRS 247.145 sets a two-judicial-day determination period and a written denial notice within the specified period. The notice must explain the reasons, judicial-review route and potential penalty. The applicant can seek review in the district court for that county, with priority treatment and the stated filing-fee remedy if successful. Repeatedly submitting the same rejected instrument without the required change or court direction is not a method of resolving the defect.

Renewal, payment and correcting a court judgment

Renewal under NRS 17.214 is an affidavit procedure with a ninety-day window before expiration. The affidavit identifies the original judgment, parties, court and entry, gives the unpaid balance after credits and setoffs, identifies outstanding executions and supplies the required recording and succession information. The amount should be reconstructed from the judgment and payment history, rather than copied from the original face amount. A payment receipt does not show what interest or allowed costs were credited unless the accounting says so.

Where the judgment was recorded, a renewal affidavit must also be recorded within three days after filing. Within three days after filing, the creditor must send the required copy to the debtor by certified mail with return receipt requested at the debtor's last known address. Successive renewals use the statutory window again. The section contains an exception referring to NRS 484A.7047, so its procedure should not be treated as a universal rule for every type of court assessment. Keep the court filing receipt, recorder receipt and mailing proof together when verifying a renewal.

NRS 17.200 provides for entry of satisfaction on the court docket through the appropriate acknowledgment or other authorized basis. It also permits court relief when a person entitled to satisfaction cannot obtain the acknowledgment. Search for a satisfaction in the court file and for a release or other terminating instrument in the county where the judgment lien was recorded. A creditor's private payoff letter, an electronic payment confirmation and the public satisfaction entry perform different functions. Retain all three when available.

A clerical mistake or disputed judgment belongs before the court that issued it. NRCP 60 permits correction of clerical mistakes and provides separate grounds for relief from a judgment. Mistake, newly discovered evidence and fraud are subject to the rule's six-month outer limit and reasonable-time requirement, with the specified trigger involving the proceeding or service of written notice of entry. Other grounds and the special default provisions have their own conditions. Filing a Rule 60 motion does not by itself suspend the judgment's operation. After an appeal is docketed, correcting a clerical error can require appellate leave.

For an appeal permitted from district court, NRAP 4(a) generally requires the notice within thirty days after service of written notice of entry, unless a statute supplies a different period. The rule identifies timely postjudgment motions that alter that calculation and explains premature and amended notices. Appeal time, lien duration and a collection stay are separate issues. Under NRCP 62, the ordinary district-court execution pause lasts thirty days after service of notice of entry, subject to court direction and exceptions. A later stay pending appeal can require security; the existence of an appeal alone should not be read as proof that enforcement is suspended.

Judgments from another state or another country

Nevada's Uniform Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act appears in NRS 17.330 through 17.400. It covers the judgments described in that Act, with exclusions for matters such as support enforcement under Chapter 130 and the specified protection orders. A creditor files the required authenticated judgment with the district-court clerk. That filing should be identified as a foreign-judgment proceeding rather than confused with a new Nevada trial deciding the underlying debt.

The address and notice requirements in NRS 17.360 include an affidavit and certified mailing of the judgment and affidavit to the debtor and the debtor's attorney, with proof filed. Execution cannot issue until thirty days after the required mailing. NRS 17.370 addresses stays where an appeal is pending or enforcement has been stayed elsewhere, and where a Nevada ground for staying enforcement is established. The receiving clerk's civil filing total is a separate charge from obtaining an exemplified copy in the originating court and recording a resulting Nevada lien.

A foreign-country money judgment uses the recognition rules beginning with NRS 17.740. Those rules require the specified finality and enforceability and exclude taxes, fines or penalties and certain domestic-relations judgments. Recognition is subject to the grounds and procedures in the Act. NRS 17.770 identifies an original action or the allowed pleading in a pending action as the route for obtaining recognition. The limitation in NRS 17.800 is the earlier of the foreign enforceability period and fifteen years after the judgment became effective abroad. A translated foreign judgment uploaded to a local case file does not itself establish that recognition has been granted.

Execution, debtor examinations and protected property

NRCP 69 provides for enforcement of a money judgment by writ of execution and permits discovery in aid of enforcement. The applicable Nevada execution statutes then govern the property and process involved. NRS 21.010 ties ordinary execution to the period before the judgment expires, with a separate support provision. A writ, a bank levy and a recorded judgment lien should be tracked individually. An unsuccessful levy does not necessarily satisfy or cancel the underlying judgment.

The statutory notice of execution and the debtor's notice rights appear in NRS 21.075. NRS 21.076 requires mailing the notice by the next business day after service of the writ in the circumstances stated there. Preserve the date of service and the notice envelope. Exemption deadlines depend on those events; a later online docket update may not be the starting date.

NRS 21.270 permits an order requiring the judgment debtor to answer under oath about property. The examination may be before the judge, a master or an attorney representing the creditor, as authorized by the order. The debtor cannot be required under that section to appear outside the county of residence. When the examination is before someone other than a judge or master, a notary must administer the oath and the proceedings must be transcribed or electronically recorded and preserved for two years. This court-authorized process differs from a recorder's name search, which cannot disclose unrecorded bank accounts or determine the debtor's current ability to pay.

Nevada's principal execution exemptions are listed in NRS 21.090. The categories include a $15,000 vehicle exemption, $12,000 for specified household property, a $10,000 general exemption and $10,000 for the stated tools or equipment of a trade. Other categories have different limits and conditions, including specified retirement and education accounts, support, public benefits and injury recoveries. The statute's $16,150 personal-injury category excludes the portions described in that provision. Do not combine every listed figure as though each protects any kind of asset against every kind of creditor; purchase-price and other statutory exceptions matter.

The homestead exemption is addressed by NRS 115.010 and related sections. The current amount is $605,000, subject to the statute's conditions and exceptions. NRS 115.020 sets the declaration requirements. A homestead declaration is a recorded instrument, not a general promise that all creditors are excluded. Purchase-money obligations, taxes, qualifying improvement claims and secured obligations require separate analysis. The proceeds rules in NRS 115.055 concern the specified forced-sale situation and include deadlines for identifying and obtaining a replacement homestead; they should not be restated as a universal rule for every voluntary sale.

Medical debt has an additional primary-dwelling protection in NRS 21.095. Its application depends on the kind of debt, dwelling and persons described by the statute. A real-property lien search therefore does not establish that an immediate forced sale is available. Read the exemption and the judgment together rather than treating a recorded lien as an eviction order or a sale notice.

The exemption claim procedure in NRS 21.112 generally gives the debtor ten days after the specified notice to claim exempt property, with a separate opportunity associated with each withholding as stated in the section. No filing fee is charged for the claim. The creditor's objection period is eight judicial days; hearing notice and hearing timing have their own statutory requirements. The section also provides for release where no objection is made and transfer where no timely claim is filed. Calendar judicial days separately from calendar days and identify which notice triggered each deadline.

For a personal bank account, NRS 21.105 supplies an automatic protection calculation. Where the bank identifies the qualifying federally exempt electronic deposit during the preceding forty-five days, the protected amount is generally $2,000 or the account balance, whichever is lower. In the other stated situation the amount is generally $400 or the balance, with an exception for support collection. The rule aggregates accounts at the institution and does not eliminate the debtor's ability to claim a larger exemption under the proper procedure. NRS 21.107 addresses a court order involving accounts at multiple institutions. These rules are more specific than a statement that a bank account is entirely exempt or entirely available.

Ordinary earnings garnishment is limited by NRS 31.295. The calculation uses the lesser of the applicable percentage of disposable earnings and the amount exceeding fifty times the federal minimum hourly wage. The percentage is 18% when gross weekly earnings are $770 or less and 25% above that threshold. Support, tax and bankruptcy-related orders have stated exceptions. Under NRS 31.296, a continuing earnings garnishment can operate for 180 days or until paid, as provided there. The creditor must furnish the required accounting at 180-day intervals, and the garnishee's processing deduction is separately limited. Ask for the current accounting rather than estimating the balance from the amount originally awarded.

Mechanic's liens: eligibility, notices and the actual deadlines

Construction claims in NRS 108.2214 and NRS 108.222 depend on the claimant's qualifying work, materials, equipment or services and the licensing requirements. The definitions include a $500 threshold for the described lien claimant. The amount may depend on the agreed contract price or the reasonable value allowed by law, with permitted overhead and profit. A recorded notice states a claim; it is not a court finding that the full amount is owed or that every required preliminary step occurred.

The notice of right to lien under NRS 108.245 is different from the recorded notice of lien. For claimants who must give it, the notice generally protects the work or supplies within the thirty-one-day lookback and thereafter, subject to the section's exceptions. The statute specifies service on the owner and the required copy to the prime contractor. Direct-contract and laborer exceptions must be checked rather than assuming every participant uses the same notice. Preserve the contract, first and last work dates, preliminary notice and proof of service as separate records.

Priority may relate to visible commencement of construction rather than the later date of the lien notice. NRS 108.225 addresses priority over later encumbrances and the treatment of specified earlier unrecorded interests. The definitions of commencement and completion affect that analysis. Photographs, permits or a recorder index date are not interchangeable evidence of the statutory commencement event. A searcher should record the claimed construction dates and identify the competing mortgage or other instrument before drawing a priority conclusion.

NRS 108.226 ordinarily requires recording within ninety days after the latest applicable event described there, including completion of the work of improvement and the claimant's last furnishing of work, materials or equipment. A valid notice of completion can produce a forty-day period. The statute is not a thirty-day-after-last-work rule. It prescribes the contents and verification of the notice and does not require an acknowledgment merely because the notice is verified. The description, owner, contracting party, amount and credits must be evaluated against the actual statutory requirements.

Residential work has a further notice of intent to lien requirement. Subject to the laborer exception, the claimant must give the owner and prime contractor the statutory notice at least fifteen days before recording. The provision extends the recording period in the specified manner. Residential construction includes the categories defined by the statute, so the protection should not be reduced to a rule only about a detached owner-occupied house. Keep the preliminary notice of right, the residential notice of intent and the recorded lien distinct; their names, recipients and timing are different.

After recording, NRS 108.227 generally requires service on the owner within thirty days by the permitted method, with the stated alternative where ordinary service cannot be completed. A claimant other than the prime contractor also has a copy requirement involving the prime contractor. Service proof can be missing from the recorder's index even when it exists elsewhere. Request it from the court file or the person relying on the lien when deciding whether a recorded notice was properly pursued.

An owner's completion notice must satisfy NRS 108.228. Recording alone does not settle whether it shortened a particular claimant's period. The owner must give the required certified-mail notice within ten days to the prime contractor and the claimants described in the section. Failure to serve a claimant can make the completion notice ineffective against that claimant. An index showing a notice of completion should therefore lead to examination of the instrument and its service history, not an automatic forty-day calculation for every subcontractor.

Amendments are governed by NRS 108.229, including the service requirement and limits involving fraud or prejudice. For multiple buildings or claims, the allocation rules in NRS 108.231 can determine the property against which an amount is asserted. An amended notice is not proof that every original defect has been cured. Compare the original and amended recording numbers, the descriptions, the claim amount and the dates, and retain both versions in the search record.

The lien ordinarily must be enforced within six months under NRS 108.233. A written, acknowledged and recorded extension made within the permitted period can extend the time for the interests of those who sign, subject to the one-year limit and restriction on a second extension. The six-month enforcement period is separate from the ninety-day recording deadline. Under NRS 108.239, the enforcement action has its own county, lis-pendens, publication, notice and participation requirements. An arbitration agreement does not dispense with preserving the lien through the procedure the statute requires.

A property owner challenging a frivolous or excessive lien can use NRS 108.2275. The provision describes the application or motion, service, hearing window, proof and possible fee awards. Its $85 charge when no action is pending is a statutory component; a court's total can include other assessments. Washoe's currently published total is identified in the court section below. If the court orders release or reduction, the certified order must be recorded within the stated five-day period unless stayed. A favorable hearing result should be followed through to the recorder's index.

Bonding a lien off the property is another distinct event. NRS 108.2415 specifies the amount and conditions, including the alternative involving one and one-half times the lien and the whole-contract bond described by the statute. Recording and service are part of the procedure. A bond does not mean that the underlying debt was paid; it can shift the security from land to the bond. NRS 108.2421 supplies the action deadline on the bond, including the nine-month rule and the stated whole-project alternative. Search for the bond and the subsequent action before labeling the dispute resolved.

Interest on a qualifying construction-lien amount is governed by NRS 108.237. Where the agreement does not provide the applicable rate, that section uses the Commissioner's prime rate plus four percentage points. With the published July 1, 2026 prime rate of 6.75%, the formula yields 10.75% for that half-year; this is a calculation from the statute and rate table, not the ordinary 8.75% judgment rate. The payment-due date and the section's fee provisions must also be considered. A lien's face amount is therefore not necessarily its current payoff amount.

Payment releases have four statutory forms under NRS 108.2457: conditional and unconditional releases for progress payments, and conditional and unconditional releases for final payment. A conditional release depends on the specified payment, including clearance of the check. Progress releases contain exclusions such as retention and the identified unpaid or disputed items. Joint checks and dishonored checks have express rules. Read the form's payment amount, covered period and reservations instead of treating every signed waiver as a final release of the entire job.

NRS 108.2437 requires a release within ten days after full payment in the circumstances stated there and provides a remedy for failure. NRS 108.2433 addresses discharge in the record, including the method where records are maintained on microfilm. A release should identify the original lien sufficiently for the county index to connect them. The construction dispute may also have a court judgment, bond or settlement; clearing one recorded notice does not automatically establish the status of all those separate obligations.

Nevada tax liens and federal tax notices

A Nevada Department of Taxation claim can reach the public record through different statutory routes. NRS 360.420 permits the specified summary judgment procedure within its four-year period. A recorded judgment under NRS 360.450 creates the described lien on real and personal property in the county, with a five-year duration measured from the judgment. NRS 360.460 supplies the extension procedure. This tax-specific five-year rule should not be substituted for the ordinary six-year judgment-lien rule.

The Department's alternative certificate route in NRS 360.473 has its own filing deadline and a five-year duration measured from filing, with a new certificate used for the statutory extension. For a release or subordination, NRS 360.475 identifies the Department's certificate and its effect. The distinction between a tax judgment and a filed certificate is material to calculating the period. Record the instrument type, not just the generic index label "tax lien."

County property taxes follow Chapter 361. NRS 361.450 makes the tax, penalty and interest a continuing lien until paid, with the priority and attachment rules stated there. The ordinary attachment date is July 1, with special treatment for the listed property situations. This lien can exist without a separate ordinary civil judgment. A recorder search should therefore be paired with the treasurer's tax-account information when the question is whether property taxes remain owing.

NRS 361.570 governs the certificate-to-trust process after the statutory delinquency period, including the different abandoned-property provision. The recorded certificate amount is not necessarily a current redemption quote. NRS 361.585 addresses the later deed and the qualified reconveyance opportunity before sale, with the specified timing. Obtain the treasurer's calculation and identify whether the property is in the certificate, deed, redemption or sale stage; a tax-deed index entry alone does not explain every remaining right.

Nevada also permits the tax-lien assignment transaction described in NRS 361.7311. It requires the owner's written, notarized authorization and the statutory agreement and recording steps. The provision limits specified fees to $600 for the described owner-occupied single-family property and limits interest to 15%. NRS 361.7326 permits redemption without the prohibited prepayment penalty and requires release within twenty business days after the amount is paid. An assignment to a private holder should be traced through its recorded agreement and release, rather than mistaken for the county's direct tax-sale procedure.

Federal tax filing offices depend on the property and taxpayer category. NRS 108.827 directs federal real-property lien notices to the county recorder and specifies Secretary of State or county filing for the described personal-property categories. The active-lien certificate described in NRS 108.831 costs $20 for the written request or $15 through the authorized other medium. Some older county sheets show different IRS-search figures; those should be reconciled with the current statute and the actual product being requested.

The IRS federal tax lien instructions, reviewed September 14, 2026, distinguish release, discharge of specific property, subordination and withdrawal of the public notice. Full payment ordinarily leads to release within thirty days. Withdrawal does not itself cancel the underlying tax debt. For lien verification, payoff or release questions, the Centralized Lien Operation publishes 800-913-6050. The recorded notice and any subsequent certificate should be read together; a levy is the separate collection action that takes property. Bankruptcy can affect collection without automatically removing every federal tax lien.

UCC financing statements and county fixture filings

NRS 104.9501 separates the filing offices. Most Article 9 financing statements go to the Secretary of State, while the specified fixture filings, timber-to-be-cut and as-extracted collateral filings use the real-property recording office. Transmitting-utility filings have their own rule. A county lien search therefore does not replace a Secretary of State UCC search, and a statewide UCC result does not eliminate the need to inspect county fixture records.

The debtor-name requirements in NRS 104.9503 differ for registered organizations, individuals and trusts. The individual rule uses the qualifying Nevada driver's license or identification record in the circumstances described there. A trade name by itself is insufficient. NRS 104.9506 addresses seriously misleading names and the exception tied to the filing office's standard search logic. Search the legally required name and inspect amendments; a familiar business nickname can miss the relevant filing.

Under NRS 104.9515, the ordinary financing statement lasts five years, with a continuation filed during the six months before lapse extending effectiveness for another five-year period. Public-finance and manufactured-home transactions can have a thirty-year period when properly indicated, transmitting-utility statements follow a different duration, and a mortgage operating as a fixture filing has its own termination rule. A filing's age alone does not prove it has lapsed. Read the transaction designation and every continuation or termination associated with the original number.

NRS 104.9513 distinguishes consumer-goods termination duties from other termination requests and sets the relevant one-month or twenty-day conditions. An information statement under NRS 104.9518 does not itself invalidate the original filing. That is a significant distinction where a debtor disputes an unauthorized or inaccurate statement. The filing office records the permitted document; it does not resolve the underlying secured transaction by accepting an objection.

The current statutory charges in NRS 104.9525 include $60 for a written financing statement of one or two pages and $90 for more than two pages, with $2 for each page above twenty. The authorized other-medium charge is $30. Additional debtor or trade-name charges and the $2-per-page copy charge have their own scope. A search request is $60 in writing or $30 through the authorized other medium. Mortgage-as-fixture-filing exceptions use the applicable recording provision. These are statute-based figures, not a claim that every current online interface displayed a price during this review.

NRS 104.9523 describes the filing-office search response and certificate, including the currency of the search and the treatment of retained lapsed filings when requested. The refusal provisions in NRS 104.9520 require the reason and time information for a rejected filing. Retain the office's response, search date and requested name. The Secretary of State application bodies encountered in this review did not establish a current interactive price or historical-coverage table; the statutory search and local fixture routes remain the verified basis here.

Mortgage releases, reconveyances and old recorded obligations

An assignment or subordination should be checked before assuming the original lender remains the party entitled to act. NRS 106.210 addresses recording an assignment before the stated enforcement action or exercise of power of sale. NRS 106.220 addresses recording the specified subordination before enforcement. Search the original security instrument, assignments, substitutions where relevant, modifications, default notices and the final release or reconveyance as a sequence.

NRS 106.240 uses a ten-year period after the secured debt becomes wholly due under its terms or a recorded extension. It is not a ten-year period beginning with the mortgage's original recording date. The maturity and extension documents can therefore be decisive for an older instrument. An index's brief description may not disclose the maturity term, and an apparent absence of a release should not be converted into a payoff figure.

For a paid mortgage, NRS 106.290 sets the discharge duty following the written notice and satisfaction of the stated conditions. The section includes a twenty-one-day requirement and the specified $1,000, actual-damages and fee remedies. It also provides a qualified title-insurer procedure with its own waiting and notice requirements. The written notice and evidence of payment matter; a borrower should not have to infer from an old recorder entry whether the discharge request was ever made.

Deeds of trust use the reconveyance procedure in NRS 107.077. For the covered instruments, the beneficiary's twenty-one-calendar-day duty follows the specified written notice of payment, and the trustee's forty-five-day period depends on payment and receipt of a proper request. The statute supplies remedies and a qualified title-insurer route. A trustee charge of $100 or less is presumed reasonable under the stated provision; it is not the recorder's recording fee. Partial reconveyance under NRS 107.078 applies to the described later deeds that authorize partial release and has its own conditions. Read the release's legal description to determine which property it actually clears.

Public access, redaction, sealed records and denied requests

For county recorder inspection, NRS 247.090 provides free inspection during office hours, subject to the stated restrictions on protected information. Obtaining a certified copy is a separate service. NRS 247.305 contains the $25 base recording charge, mandatory components and permitted local additions, along with the ordinary $1-per-page record-copy and $4 certification provisions. The published local totals below should be used for the particular office and instrument instead of adding those components a second time.

For a covered public-record request to a governmental custodian, NRS 239.0107 requires a response by the end of the fifth business day. Depending on the circumstances, the response provides the record, identifies that the office lacks custody and the known custodian, explains the earliest availability date, or gives a written denial with the legal basis. Five business days is a response requirement, not a promise that every extensive request will be completed in that time. Describe the desired instrument, date range and format, and distinguish a missing record from a record withheld as confidential.

NRS 239.010 addresses access to nonconfidential records and separation of confidential information. NRS 239.052 governs actual-cost charging unless another law fixes the price and requires the applicable fee policy. A recorder's statutory copy tariff and a court's copy tariff should not be replaced with a generic electronic-record estimate. Ask for the legal basis and an itemized estimate where the requested service involves research, extensive redaction or a nonstandard format.

For a denial, unreasonable delay or excessive charge within the public-records statute, NRS 239.011 provides the district-court application route and the stated fee consequences. NRS 239.0113 places the burden concerning confidentiality on the governmental entity. Court case records require attention to judicial rules and the particular court's policy; they should not automatically be assigned the recorder's statutory request process. Sparks, for example, expressly distinguishes court records from administrative records and publishes a court-specific reconsideration procedure.

The Rules Governing Sealing and Redacting Court Records address the covered civil records and exclude categories governed by separate law or rules. They require a sufficient basis and written findings for restricting access, favor the least restrictive means and preserve the prescribed public index information. A private agreement to keep a dispute confidential does not alone supply the required judicial basis. The rules also address service of a sealing motion, treatment while the motion is pending and motions to unseal. Their five-year provision is tied to the stated final-judgment or remittitur event; it should not be turned into a promise that every sealed file automatically opens after five years.

Family-law records now have the specific framework in NRS 121.110. The summons, proof of service, pleadings, decrees, orders and judgments are among the records the section opens to inspection. Financial disclosure forms, confidential exhibits, custody evaluations, medical records and the listed sealed or legally protected materials are restricted unless the required court order permits access. Other records are presumptively open, with sealing or redaction available on the statutory showing. The court must consider the identified interests when deciding whether to unseal. A public divorce judgment therefore does not make the parties' underlying financial disclosure forms public.

That framework was enacted in 2025 Senate Bill 432, Chapter 505, which also repealed the former NRS 125.110. NRS 121.100 separately governs closing a family-law proceeding and the confidentiality of a closed portion's transcript or recording. The court must exercise discretion under the compelling-interest standard and make the prescribed findings. Use the current section and actual court order when interpreting an older family file; a historical reference to the repealed divorce-record statute is not the current access rule.

Recorded-document privacy has a different system. NRS 247.530 describes the order or other qualifying process for protecting personal information in recorder records. The protected-information definition in NRS 247.520 excludes the assessor's parcel number. NRS 247.545 provides a petition route for the person who establishes the specified threat, with a five-year order and renewal notice. This protection does not rewrite the underlying lien or establish that the debt is invalid. A privacy request, an indexing correction and a judicial challenge to a lien are separate tasks.

The Supreme Court's fee-waiver instructions call for an application, request for submission and proposed order. The judge decides the request. The instructions state that a granted waiver lasts one year and describe the covered filing and sheriff-service costs. They also direct users to the local court's charges and specialized Clark or Washoe resources. A fee waiver for court filing should not be assumed to waive a county recorder charge, a vendor subscription or a federal record search.

Association assessment liens and the foreclosure record

A common-interest community assessment lien does not always begin with a separately recorded claim. Under NRS 116.3116, recording the declaration gives record notice and perfects the statutory lien. The association's claim can include the assessments and other qualifying charges described in that section. This means that finding no recent document labeled "HOA lien" is not enough to establish that a unit has no unpaid association obligation. The owner can request the statutory statement of unpaid assessments, which must be furnished within ten business days and, in the circumstances described, in recordable form.

The same section gives a limited portion of the association lien priority over the specified first security interest. That portion includes the described maintenance or abatement charges, qualifying common-expense assessments generally measured over nine months, and capped enforcement costs. The cost caps are $165 for the demand or intent letter, $325 for the delinquent-assessment notice, $90 for the intent-to-default letter, $400 for the default notice and $400 for one trustee's sale guaranty, subject to actual cost. Attorney fees do not join that priority component. The federal-regulation qualification and other priority exceptions remain material. The full association balance and the portion with priority are not necessarily the same sum.

NRS 116.31162 describes the collection and sale sequence. It includes the initial fee schedule, proposed repayment plan and hearing notice after the prescribed delinquency period; the opportunity to pay, arrange repayment or request a board hearing; a delinquent-assessment notice; and a recorded default and election to sell. The default notice generally follows at least thirty days after the delinquency notice. The ninety-day period associated with the default is measured using the later recording or required mailing or delivery event as the statute directs. The law also limits foreclosure based solely on fines or penalties and addresses pending foreclosure mediation.

Security-interest holders and people who requested notice have separate notice protections in NRS 116.31163. NRS 116.311635 then requires a recorded sale notice, posting, newspaper publication and the specified mailing and service. The sale notice must state the amount needed to satisfy the lien as of the proposed sale. A recorder image may show the notice but not all mailing or posting proof. When reviewing a completed foreclosure, include those proof documents and the affidavit identifying the security-interest holders who received notice.

The sale rules in NRS 116.31164 address the effect of timely payment of the priority portion, recording the satisfaction, postponements, disqualified purchasers and distribution of proceeds. NRS 116.31166 requires a recorded certificate of sale and provides the specified sixty-day redemption right. The redemption calculation includes the purchase price, interest at 1% per month and the additional amounts the section allows. The later deed and a redemption certificate represent different outcomes. Trace the certificate, redemption period and deed rather than treating the auction date as the only event affecting title.

A person with the stated interest can record a request for default or sale notices under NRS 116.31168. The request identifies the person, address, unit by legal description or parcel number, owner and community. The section prescribes the subsequent mailing periods. For an unpaid-assessment lien, the three-year enforcement rule in NRS 116.3116 also matters. These requirements explain why the association's account statement, declaration, notices and recorded termination or foreclosure documents must be assembled together.

Hospital liens can describe different property interests

A hospital lien on an injury recovery is not the same instrument as an ordinary judgment lien on a home. NRS 108.590 addresses the hospital's claim against the qualifying judgment or settlement recovery, subject to its exceptions. The protected attorney-fee and expense amounts are addressed in NRS 108.600. Under NRS 108.610, the notice is recorded where the hospital is located and, when different, where the injury occurred, with the specified service on the responsible person and known insurer. Those counties may differ from the patient's county of residence.

For care covered by a contracted third-party health insurer, NRS 108.605 adds the notice-of-intent and collection requirements, including the ninety-day and thirty-day periods described there. Public programs have an express exception. The separate real-property lien for a county or district hospital appears in NRS 108.662. It requires notice and recording in the property's county, prescribes the filing window and calls for an amended notice within ten days after the specified written notice of a reduction. That hospital cannot assign, sell or transfer its interest in the lien. Read the notice's statutory basis before deciding what asset it reaches.

Federal cases, bankruptcy and record charges after November 2026

The federal PACER service permits a search in the filing court or through the national Case Locator. On November 6, 2026, access is $0.10 per page, with the usual $3 ceiling for a qualifying document or case-specific report. Name-search results, non-case-specific reports and transcripts are outside that ceiling. Charges of $30 or less in a quarter are waived. Viewing a result can generate a charge even when nothing is printed, and a search returning no match can still count as one page. Establish the correct case number before ordering a long docket or repeated reports.

PACER's June 26, 2026 announcement schedules a different rate for January 1, 2027: $0.12 per page, with the quarterly automatic exemption increased to $40. The announcement describes a five-year temporary increase. Those are future figures at the November research date. They should not be substituted for the current $0.10 charge in a request made before the effective date.

The Nevada Bankruptcy Court's PACER instructions identify its own electronic case system and explain that dockets beginning in 1989 may include images. That is not a promise that every 1989 document is imaged. Its copy-request instructions distinguish electronic case files from earlier closed files and describe requests by case number, debtor and particular document. The court's copy route calls for the required payment and return envelope when applicable. For an older matter, obtain the archive reference before assuming a missing electronic image means the document never existed.

The Bankruptcy Court's currently posted schedule, effective October 1, 2024, lists clerk-made copies at $0.50 per page and certification at $12 in addition to reproduction. Exemplification is $24, and the listed court-record search is $34. Public-terminal printing and an electronic court copy are separately priced products. A request for a certified discharge, a docket printout and an exemplified judgment should name the desired product instead of asking for an unspecified "official copy."

The court's November 4, 2026 announcement links the fee changes effective December 1, 2026. Certification rises from $12 to $13, exemplification from $24 to $27 and the listed record search from $34 to $38. The schedule also changes archive, electronic-copy and other specified miscellaneous charges. These December clerk-fee changes are separate from the January PACER per-page change. A request spanning either effective date should be priced for the service and date the court actually applies.

The Nevada Bankruptcy Court's post-filing guidance explains the automatic stay affecting most collection proceedings when a bankruptcy petition is filed. The docket may also contain orders granting relief from that stay. The federal judiciary's discharge explanation distinguishes release of personal liability from the survival of a valid lien that was not avoided in the bankruptcy case. A discharge order should therefore be checked with any lien-avoidance order, stay-relief order and county release. The word "discharged" in a case summary does not answer every property-lien question.

Justice-court judgments and the current appeal rules

The justice-court rules were amended effective October 29, 2024, and their deadlines should be checked separately from district-court practice. Under JCRCP 58, a judgment becomes effective when the judge-signed document is filed with the clerk. The prevailing party must serve the required copy and file the service certificate within fourteen days, subject to the stated default-party exception. Failure to serve notice does not erase the judgment, but execution cannot proceed until the required notice is served. Rule 62 generally prevents execution for thirty days after service of written notice of entry unless the court orders otherwise, and addresses separate stays and security during later motions or an appeal.

For an ordinary appealable justice-court civil determination, Rule 72B generally sets twenty-one days after service of written notice of entry, subject to a different statutory deadline and the listed tolling motions. Rule 72A identifies the judgments and orders that can be appealed, including specified post-judgment, attachment and redemption decisions. A disagreement with an interlocutory ruling does not automatically create an immediate appeal. Under Rule 72, the notice is filed with the justice-court clerk, who forwards the required docket, judgment, notice, minutes and offered exhibits to the district court. That forwarding duty explains why the lower-court record matters to the appeal.

Small claims have a different, shorter rule. JCRCP 98 requires the notice of appeal within seven calendar days from service of the judgment, calculated under Rule 6, and does not require a formal notice of entry. The current rule supersedes local explanatory text that still describes five judicial days from entry. Rule 99 requires a brief basis for appeal and an acknowledgment of the bond requirement. Rule 100 states the bond components: a judgment debtor's undertaking includes the judgment and interest, $100 for the specified costs and $15 for the described attorney-fee allowance, while the appealing plaintiff's stated undertaking has its own components. Those amounts describe security, not a flat fee that purchases appellate review.

A small-claims file also has prescribed docket entries. Rule 94 calls for the claim amount, appearance or default, adjournments, judgment, payments made to the court or through execution, issuance of an abstract, and appeal notice or bond. A search of that docket can therefore locate payment or enforcement events that are absent from a recorder's image. Under Rule 88, related debts cannot simply be split to manufacture small-claims jurisdiction, and a claim exceeding that track's authority may require reclassification or transfer. The existence of a small-claims judgment says which procedure produced the result; it does not certify ownership of a parcel or automatically supply a recorded real-property lien.

The seventeen recorder jurisdictions and their local records

The Nevada State Library, Archives and Public Records referral guide links the Recorders Association of Nevada county directory. Its seventeen office entries were read for contact routes, then checked against the linked county pages where bodies were available. Carson City is included with the county recording jurisdictions. The notes distinguish an office's oldest holdings from the years searchable by name online and the years with document images.

Carson City

The directory identifies the recorder at 885 East Musser Street, Suite 1028, Carson City, NV 89701, telephone 775-887-2260. Its own link leads to the Carson City Recorder's Office. The office, forms and fee routes did not yield readable bodies in this review; the published fee-document candidate also returned an access refusal. No local total or online starting year is therefore assigned from those routes. Use the recorder contact for the current price of recording the certified judgment and affidavit, and identify the document by recording number when asking for a copy. The district-court clerk is a different office in Suite 3031, as shown in the court contact list.

Churchill County

The Churchill Recorder receives recording inquiries at 155 North Taylor Street, Suite 131, Fallon, NV 89406, telephone 775-423-6001, and publishes weekday hours of 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM. The office email is recorderclerks@churchillcountynv.gov. Its linked fee schedule is labeled effective January 1, 2020, but that document produced a redirect loop and the direct retrieval failed. The local recording total remains unestablished from that schedule. The office links Landmark recording-activity notifications. The free alert service matches the registered name exactly, so a middle-name variant can fail to trigger an alert. That registration form is not evidence of a historical document-image range. Ask separately about index years, scanned images and an older book or instrument that cannot be found online.

Clark County

The Clark Recorder links its Acclaim search interface, which exposes name, parcel, instrument, document-type, book-and-page, date and legal-description search choices. Those choices do not establish that every historical document has every index field. The recordation instructions require the applicable eleven-digit parcel number and explain document preparation, including the exception for qualifying court-filed documents.

The current fee parent links a schedule whose body is effective January 1, 2020. It lists $42 for a standard recorded document and an additional $250 for the covered default notice. Ordinary record copies are $1 per page and certification adds $4. UCC products have their separate statutory pricing. The payment instructions list a card charge of 2% plus $1.25 and distinguish the accepted check types. The PDF's older metadata title does not change the effective date printed in its body.

Clark's office-location instructions place the main counter at 500 South Grand Central Parkway, with mail to Box 551510, Las Vegas, NV 89155-1510. Main-counter hours are Monday through Thursday, 7:30 AM to 5:30 PM. The Northwest and Henderson satellite counters operate Monday through Thursday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, and apply a ten-document limit per customer per morning or afternoon period; they do not accept maps. Mail goes to the main office. The contact number is 702-455-4336. The instructions describe research from 1909 and a fifteen-minute limit when others are waiting, so a lengthy historical review needs a different plan from a brief counter copy request.

Douglas County

The Douglas Recorder distinguishes several collections: fully indexed images from 1967 forward, work to extend indexing back to 1960, and historical collections of official records from 1960 through 1972 and deeds, Kinsey and patents from 1855 through 1959. These are overlapping record series, not one complete online lien index beginning in 1855. The office is at 1616 Eighth Street, with mail to P.O. Box 218, Minden, NV 89423; call 775-782-9025. It publishes weekday hours of 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, open during lunch.

Douglas provides free watermarked research images and sells clean online copies at $1 per page; certified copies use the office's phone or email route. Its Digital Research Room expressly states that the displayed images are not certified. The recorder fee page links the January 1, 2020 schedule, listing a $40 standard-document charge, $1 per copied page and $4 certification. Its covered residential default notice is $40 plus $250. The sheet states a $3 debit-card fee and a credit-card fee of 2.5% with a $2 minimum. Older unscanned material can require microfilm research even when the index is accessible.

Douglas also links a document research assistant disclaimer. The office identifies the assistant as an independent third-party tool and says it cannot validate its algorithms or data. Treat its answer as a lead for finding the recorded instrument; the recorded image, index details and recorder-certified copy serve different evidentiary purposes.

Elko County

The Elko Recorder's own instructions describe holdings beginning in March 1869, which should not be treated as an online image promise. The counter is at 571 Idaho Street, Suite 103, Elko, NV 89801, telephone 775-738-6526, with recordersoffice@elkocountynv.net for office inquiries. Weekday counter hours are 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, while electronic recording ends at 4:45 PM. Its Landmark application supplies the record-search interface; no uniform online starting date was established from that interface.

The office-linked fee sheet effective January 1, 2020 gives $37 for ordinary recording and $287 for the covered default notice. Copies are $1 per page, with $4 added for certification. The card surcharge is 2.5% with a $2 minimum. A fixture filing uses the separately listed UCC tariff. The court administrator and district-court clerk have different contact routes from this recorder; a certified copy of the original judgment must be obtained from the court record before the recording step.

Esmeralda County

The Esmeralda Auditor/Recorder describes deeds from 1863, tax records from 1865 and mining records from 1866, while the online index begins January 1, 2008. The older holdings and the online index therefore require separate search methods. Contact the office at 403 Crook Avenue, P.O. Box 458, Goldfield, NV 89013, telephone 775-485-6337. Published hours are Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to noon and 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM. Electronic recording has a narrower 8:30 AM to noon and 1:00 PM to 4:30 PM schedule and is described for regular deeds, excluding mining documents.

The fee parent links a 2020 Word document, but its redirected body was not readable during the review. The Digital Research Room also failed to yield a substantive application body. A current recording total or image-coverage date should be confirmed with the recorder. The office text and embedded email link use different domains, so the telephone route is retained here rather than choosing one of the conflicting email addresses.

Eureka County

The Eureka Clerk/Recorder publishes a schedule effective January 5, 2026: Monday through Thursday, 7:00 AM to 5:30 PM, closed from 12:30 PM to 1:00 PM and on Friday. Its contact is 10 South Main Street, P.O. Box 540, Eureka, NV 89316, telephone 775-237-5263. The downloadable-documents page supplies the linking parent for the recording schedule labeled 2024. That schedule lists $37 ordinary recording, $287 for the covered default notice and $4 for certification.

The Eureka sheet contains separate miscellaneous photocopy and public-record request prices. Those rows should not be silently substituted for the statutory ordinary recorded-document copy price. Its official-document search parent links the county recording application, but the application body was not established here. For a book-and-page reference or an older lien, give the clerk the record series and approximate date instead of relying on a statewide date assumption.

Humboldt County

The Humboldt Recorder gives a precise distinction: full online index and images from January 1, 1996, intermittent material back to 1963, and historical microfilm spanning 1862 through 1996. A failed online search before 1996 therefore leaves a specific microfilm route. The office asks for a known book or document reference when requesting older material. Free online images are unofficial; official copies are $1 per page. Staff do not perform title, mineral-rights, water-rights or lien searches for the requester.

The office is at 25 West Fourth Street, Winnemucca, NV 89445, telephone 775-623-6412, with recorder@humboldtcountynv.gov and weekday hours of 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM. The fee page currently links a schedule labeled effective January 1, 2020. Its PDF returned a redirect loop, and the separate direct attempt timed out. No ordinary recording total is assigned from that unread document. The established $1 copy figure comes from the recorder's readable office instructions, not from the failed PDF.

Lander County

The Lander Recorder describes county holdings from 1863. It is at 50 State Route 305, Battle Mountain, NV 89820, telephone 775-635-5173, with recorder@landercountynv.gov. The office's service-hours page distinguishes the weekday 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM office schedule from the 4:45 PM recording cutoff. Its motor-vehicle service hours should not be transferred to land recording.

The recorder FAQ gives $1 per page for official copies, requires prepayment and describes phone or email requests. Online watermarked images are for unofficial research, and staff do not conduct the search for the customer. The linked self-service application returned a disclaimer rather than a historical-coverage table. The office's 2020 fee PDF could not be read, so a current local recording total remains an office-confirmation item. The separate district-court office is discussed below; the county clerk states that it no longer administers district-court functions.

Lincoln County

The Lincoln Recorder publishes Monday-through-Thursday hours of 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM, effective August 1, 2022. Reach it at 181 North Main Street, Suite 202, P.O. Box 218, Pioche, NV 89043, telephone 775-962-8076. The linked January 2020 fee document lists $37 for an ordinary recorded instrument and $287 for the covered default notice. Recorded copies are $1 per page or digital image; certification adds $4. The miscellaneous ten-cent photocopy line is a different product.

Lincoln's sheet states a 2.5% card charge with a $2 minimum and a $3 electronic-check charge. Its UCC rows use the separate $60 and $90 filing categories and attachment charges. The office's document-inquiry labels did not establish a readable online date range in this review. For an older Clark-area court matter, Clark's court clerk separately directs records predating September 1909 to Lincoln County; that historical court referral does not itself prove where a particular older land instrument is held.

Lyon County

The Lyon Recorder is at 27 South Main Street, Yerington, NV 89447, telephone 775-463-6581, with records@lyon-county.org and weekday hours of 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Its online-record instructions describe images from 1970 forward and a last-name-first search without a comma. Maps and mining documents have additional indexing choices. The free view is unofficial; a clean record copy requires payment, and certification is a further service. Phone, email, fax and the office request form are listed routes.

Lyon's schedule effective July 1, 2024 lists a $43 flat recording fee, with the $250 state default-notice surcharge where applicable. Ordinary copies cost $1 per page and certification adds $4. Fixture filings through two pages are $60, three through twenty pages are $90, and the listed additional debtor and over-twenty-page charges are $2 each. UCC copies and miscellaneous nonrecord photocopies have different prices. The recorder's self-service link is the published application route; the office's description, rather than an inferred range from a blank search form, supplies the established image start year.

Mineral County

The Mineral Recorder describes county records beginning in 1911. Contact 105 South A Street, Suite 2, P.O. Box 1447, Hawthorne, NV 89415, telephone 775-945-3676. The office publishes Monday-through-Thursday hours of 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Its separate newspaper holdings do not establish land-record image coverage. The linked record application did not expose a readable coverage table, while the office's recording-information link resolved to a duplicated path and failed. The local tariff remains unestablished from those branches. Ask for the fee for the exact lien or certified-copy product and identify any older record by its book and page.

Nye County

The Nye Recorder publishes Monday-through-Thursday hours of 6:30 AM to 5:00 PM, closed from noon to 12:30 PM. Its notice states that Friday electronic recording ended September 18, 2026. The Tonopah contact is 101 Radar Road, P.O. Box 1111, Tonopah, NV 89049, telephone 775-482-8116. The Pahrump office is at 170 North Floyd Street, Suite 1, telephone 775-751-6340. Confirm the intended counter before sending an original document to a branch.

The linked January 1, 2020 schedule gives $37 ordinary recording, $287 for the covered default notice, $1 per page for recorded-document copies and $4 certification. Its lower letter, legal and computer-printout prices are explicitly unofficial products. The small-charge waiver on that portion of the sheet should not be applied to official certified copies. The schedule distinguishes the 3% card charge with a $2 minimum for the stated in-person or copy services from the online-recording charge of 3% plus $3 per document. The officially linked search portal returned an access refusal, so no online historical span is assigned from it.

Nye's recording FAQ describes the online index as extending from 1986 through the previous day and says images are added daily. It directs requests for earlier records to the Tonopah office. The index start does not establish that every image from 1986 is present, and the blocked application did not permit a live-result test. Use the office's desktop FAQ link even though its current response redirects to a mobile-formatted address.

Pershing County

The Pershing Recorder/Auditor identifies July 1, 1919 as the start of its county records and refers earlier material to Humboldt County. The office is at 398 Main Street, P.O. Box 736, Lovelock, NV 89419, telephone 775-273-2408. Weekday office hours are 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, while recording runs from 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM. A late-afternoon research visit and an original-document recording therefore have different cutoffs.

The retained office navigation includes a recording-fee document labeled March 2024, but the actual linked nested path redirected to an unavailable host; the direct attempt also failed. The office-linked portal was not readable. Those limits leave the current recording total and online image coverage unestablished. The known 1919 county boundary remains useful: searching only Pershing's modern index can miss a relevant earlier instrument retained in Humboldt. The court clerk in Lovelock is a separate custodian for the judgment itself.

Storey County

The Storey Recorder is at 26 South B Street, P.O. Box 493, Virginia City, NV 89440, telephone 775-847-0967, with recorder@storeycounty.org. Its counter hours are Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to noon and 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM. The local tariff gives $37 ordinary recording and $287 for the covered default notice. Record copies are $1 per page and certification adds $4. The card schedule is tiered, so its charge should be checked against the payment amount rather than treated as a single statewide percentage.

Storey's search gateway separates Recorder records from Clerk records. That distinction is useful when the same person has both a civil judgment and a recorded instrument. The recorder's published FAQ describes records from 1859 and unofficial watermarked copies, but the linked application returned an access refusal during this review. Obtain clean or certified copies through the office and confirm the particular historical series. Staff do not supply a title opinion from the search result.

Washoe County

The Washoe Recorder operates at 1001 East Ninth Street, Building A, Reno, NV 89512, with recorder space identified as A140/A150 in the directory, telephone 775-328-3660 and record@washoecounty.gov. Weekday hours are 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Its fee schedule lists $43 for standard recording and $293 for the covered default notice. Ordinary copies cost $1 per page, certification $4 and UCC copies $2 per page. Bulk data has a separately dated January 1, 2026 schedule: $75 weekly for index data, $100 for images or $125 for both.

Washoe's parcel-search explanation says parcel indexing began in 2016 and describes later assessor-derived additions. A parcel number added to an index may not appear on the original document image. A parcel-only search is therefore incomplete for historical chain work. The official recorder application is the published search route. For a certified electronic copy, the digital-certification instructions direct the requester to the office by phone or mail and explain verification of the unmodified electronic file. A printed research image does not acquire that certification merely by being downloaded.

White Pine County

The White Pine Recorder is at 801 Clark Street, Suite 1, Ely, NV 89301, telephone 775-293-6507, with weekday hours of 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Its linked 2020 fee sheet lists $37 ordinary recording, $287 for the covered default notice, $1 per record-copy page and $4 certification. The older UCC and IRS search figures on that sheet conflict with the current statutory search provisions, so those particular search charges should be confirmed rather than reused as current statewide prices.

The office's public-record request form separately states fifty cents for a screen printout, $1 per recorded-copy page and an additional $4 per certified document. It asks for the names, approximate dates, parcel number and legal description and offers mail, in-person or email delivery. Email delivery can still involve a per-page charge when the document is not already electronic, and payment is required before release. This recorder remains at Clark Street; the district court's current Great Basin Boulevard location should not be substituted for the recording address.

Court searches, copies and local filing charges

A recorder can certify a recorded judgment, but the court clerk holds the case in which the judgment was entered. A requested packet might need the signed judgment, notice of entry, renewal affidavit, writ, return and satisfaction. State the case number and each required document when ordering. A request for every entry under a common name can incur a name-and-year search charge without producing proof that the person is the debtor. The court schedules below identify the charge for the particular service rather than treating a court's initial filing fee as the price of a judgment copy.

NRS 19.013 sets district-clerk components including $0.50 per page for copies, $3 for the stated certification service, $5 for certifying a copy prepared by someone else, and $0.50 per year searched. The statute has separate charges for a transcript of a judgment and other certificates or seals, and exemptions for specified services. These figures do not state the total to commence every civil case: additional statutory assessments and locally authorized charges can produce different filing totals. A certified copy prepared by the clerk and an externally prepared copy presented for certification are separate products.

Clark District Court: older files and different copy products

The Eighth Judicial District Court Clerk maintains records beginning in September 1909. Most records from 1990 forward can be searched online; older files generally require an in-person or mailed request. The clerk identifies service locations at the Regional Justice Center, 200 Lewis Avenue, third floor, and Family Court, 601 North Pecos Road, first floor. Published clerk hours are Monday through Friday, 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM. Records predating the county's 1909 establishment are referred to Lincoln County. An online failure therefore calls for a historical-file inquiry, not a conclusion that no case existed.

The court's record search and viewing instructions distinguish a $0.50-per-page copy from the additional $3 certification or $6 exemplification charge. A copy supplied by the requester has different certification and exemplification prices, $5 and $9 respectively. Certification requires an original record in the clerk's custody. Pre-1990 searches cost $0.50 per year per name, and microfilm or unusually large requests can take up to two weeks. Requests can be emailed to recordsrequest@clarkcountycourts.us or mailed to the Clerk of Court, Attention Records, 200 East Lewis Avenue, Las Vegas, NV 89155. Sealed civil and criminal records require the appropriate court order; family-file access also depends on party status, identification and the type of document.

Churchill, Elko and the district clerks outside Clark

The Churchill District Court office is at 73 North Maine Street, Suite B, Fallon, telephone 775-423-6088, email districtcourt@churchillcourts.org. Its filing counter is open on weekdays from 8:30 AM to noon and 1:00 PM to 4:30 PM. Those hours differ from the recorder's counter. The court's electronic filing instructions direct users to the Tybera e-flex service and give the office email for local procedure questions. A document submitted through that service belongs to the court case; it does not replace a required recording with Churchill's recorder.

Elko's district court office publishes a court administration location at 571 Idaho Street, telephone 775-753-4613, and the filing email dcfiling@elkocountynv.net. The state directory separately identifies the county clerk at 550 Court Street, third floor, telephone 775-753-4600. Preserve that distinction when arranging an in-person filing or ordering a case packet. The office-linked 2026 district filing schedule, revised December 12, 2025, lists $275 for a general civil commencement and $275 for a foreign judgment, $198 for the ordinary defendant's appearance, and $10 for the specified execution, garnishment or attachment writ. Copy and certification charges remain separate. The live links for the justice-court fee sheet and an additional copy-fee notice did not return readable documents, so their amounts are not inferred from the district schedule.

The Esmeralda clerk accepts inquiries at 403 East Crook Avenue, with mail to P.O. Box 547, Goldfield, NV 89013, telephone 775-485-6309. Weekday hours are 8:00 AM to noon and 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM. An older fee heading and inconsistent search-price wording on that office's returned page prevent treating those figures as a verified current court tariff. Humboldt's Sixth Judicial District Court identifies its clerk at 50 West Fifth Street, telephone 775-623-6343; the judicial chambers at 25 West Fifth Street are a different contact. The returned clerk-hours line contained an AM/PM inconsistency, so no corrected closing time is invented.

Lander County's own clerk notice states that district-court functions have moved to a separate office on the second floor near the elevator at 50 State Route 305 in Battle Mountain. It supplies 775-635-1332 and 775-635-1334 for those functions. The state directory's Lander entry instead repeats a Lovelock address and telephone associated with Pershing County; those details are not adopted for Lander. Mineral's state entry also repeats a Lovelock address. Its published telephone, 775-945-0738, is retained as a contact route, but the disputed street address is omitted until the local district clerk confirms it.

Nye, Washoe and White Pine District Court requests

Nye's district-clerk instructions specify Monday through Friday service from 8:00 AM to noon and 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM. The instructions describe paper filings with original signatures and single-sided documents, and say that district-court electronic filing is not available. Mailed copy requests should include a return envelope and postage. The Pahrump district clerk uses Suite 108 at 1520 East Basin Avenue, while the justice court uses Suite 104. Nye's linked district fee schedule updated March 25, 2026 lists $245 for an ordinary civil complaint or foreign judgment, $198 for the listed first appearance, $0.50 per page, $3 certification, $5 certification of an externally prepared copy and $0.50 for each year searched. A $10 enforcement writ is a separate service.

Washoe's court-copy service takes requests through its online payment process, by email at Records@washoecourts.us, by mail to 75 Court Street, Reno, NV 89501, or through the court's resource center at 1 South Sierra Street. Ordinary copies cost $0.50 per page and certification adds $3; a certified divorce decree has a separately stated flat $6 price. The office asks requesters to allow up to five business days for copies. A mailed request needs the indicated payment and return envelope, and an online transaction can add a processing fee. That copy-processing estimate is separate from the public-record response rules discussed earlier.

The Washoe District Court fee schedule, effective September 30, 2025, lists $255 for a general civil case or foreign judgment and $208 for the ordinary first appearance. Its $284 total for a proceeding to release a frivolous lien includes the $85 component found in the underlying statute; the base alone is not the complete local filing price. A certified transcript of judgment is listed at $3, while other filings and media products have their own charges. White Pine's current Seventh Judicial District Court contact is 1786 Great Basin Boulevard, Suite 3, Ely, NV 89301, telephone 775-289-7887, email ClerksOffice@whitepinecountynv.gov. This current local route supersedes the older Clark Street location in the state directory.

Las Vegas and the other Clark justice courts

The Las Vegas Justice Court civil division operates Monday through Thursday, 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM, with civil inquiries at 702-671-3478. It requires electronic filing for civil matters and describes free filing access at the courthouse. Its fee schedule effective February 8, 2024 lists general civil commencement tiers of $74, $124, $199 and $274 and small-claims tiers of $66, $86, $106, $146 and $196, depending on the claim amount. The same schedule lists $25 for a writ or renewal affidavit, $0.50 per page, $3 certification and $1 for a search per year. The online provider's listed filing-only, filing-and-service and service-only charges are separate, at $2.50, $5.50 and $4. Off-site retrieval is also distinct, with $10 ordinary and $35 expedited options.

The fee document linked from Laughlin Justice Court's rural-fee page carries an effective date of January 1, 2017. The published rural schedule uses the same listed commencement tiers of $74, $124, $199 and $274 for general civil claims and $66, $86, $106, $146 and $196 for small claims. It also lists $0.50 copies, $3 certification, $1 yearly searches and a $25 writ charge. The document contains color-coded qualifications that could not be resolved from the text extraction, so other highlighted charges are not adopted here. Laughlin, Mesquite, Moapa, Moapa Valley and Searchlight each have an office route in the contacts below; use the specific township rather than the Las Vegas civil counter for their cases.

The North Las Vegas civil division publishes a distinct court fee PDF whose filename says 2025 but whose body states an effective date of March 27, 2024. Its general and small-claim commencement tiers are those listed above, and it specifies a $25 execution writ, $25 renewal, $0.50 copies and $1 per name and year searched. It distinguishes a $3 certificate or seal from a listed $3.50 certified-copy product. The office says it does not take telephone payments. The proper physical contact is Building A at 2428 North Martin Luther King Boulevard, not the Regional Justice Center in downtown Las Vegas.

Douglas and Lyon justice-court products

The East Fork Justice Court home page links its court fee document, updated October 31, 2024, lists small-claim commencement tiers of $71, $91, $111, $151 and $201 and general civil tiers of $76, $126, $201 and $276. It lists an abstract-of-judgment service at $76, a figure that differs from the $25 entries in several other township schedules. Copies are $0.50 per page, certification $3, a yearly record search $1 and a writ $25. The associated record and document request form requests prepayment and sufficient names, years and case identifiers. Its statement about destruction of certain other files six years after closure is a local retention warning, not a statewide six-year limit on every judgment record.

The Fernley Justice Court office publishes separate PDFs for civil filing charges, small-claims filing and service and miscellaneous court services. General civil commencement amounts are $61, $111, $186 and $261. The displayed small-claims totals are $73, $93, $113, $153 and $203 and include the stated $17 service component; mileage or the specified mailed-service cost can change the amount actually required. The miscellaneous sheet lists $25 for an abstract, writ or renewal affidavit, $0.50 per copied page, $3 for certification and $1 per name and year searched. Avoid comparing a service-inclusive small-claims total with another court's filing-only figure.

The Tahoe Justice Court office links a record-search form that charges $1 for each year, name and case type searched, $0.50 per copied page and $3 for each certified document. It requests advance payment and a return envelope and asks that one week be allowed for processing. As with East Fork, the form warns that some other case files are destroyed six years after closure. A request spanning civil and criminal files therefore differs from a single named civil case. The court's published payment instructions also distinguish the payment methods accepted by mail from those available at the counter.

Reno, Sparks and Incline Village access

Reno Justice Court's current fee table identifies its civil fees as current in April 2026. General civil commencement tiers are $71, $121, $196 and $271, with small-claims tiers of $66, $86, $106, $146 and $196. An abstract, renewal affidavit or writ costs $25, copies $0.50 per page, certification $3 and the listed exemplified certificate $28. Record searching is separately priced at $1 per year and search. Civil inquiries go to 775-325-6501; the general directory number is 775-325-6500. An error in a private report is not corrected merely by asking the court to alter an accurate docket; obtain the actual filed satisfaction or corrective order for the reporting dispute.

Sparks links its civil fee schedule from the court's fee landing page. Although the filename contains an older date, the body is revised September 30, 2024. It uses general tiers of $71, $121, $196 and $271 and small-claims tiers of $66, $86, $106, $146 and $196. The schedule lists $25 abstracts, renewals and writs, $0.50 copies, $3 certification, $28 exemplified certificates and $1 per name and year searched. These are court charges; they do not include the recorder's later charge to record an instrument.

The Sparks records-request instructions lead to a separate public access policy effective April 15, 2024. That policy requires a sufficiently detailed written request, addresses redaction, and explains that court personnel need not create a new record to answer a question. Within five business days, the court provides the policy's written response about availability, cost, delay, nonexistence or the reason for denial. It may require prepayment and describes a possible indigency waiver. A requester disputing a denial can seek reconsideration by a letter to the chief judge within thirty calendar days. This is the court's stated procedure, distinct from assuming Nevada's executive-agency public-record statute supplies every rule for a court file.

Incline Village's case-information instructions refer registered users to Washoe's justice-court online service for certain records. The linked application timed out during this review, so no complete image range or promise of access to every case is assigned to it. Its civil guidance explains the formal civil track and says self-help forms for that track are not supplied by the local clerk. The small-claims instructions list filing charges from $66 to $196, with process-service charges separate. Those instructions also describe mandatory mediation before the small-claims hearing. Their loose description of judgment duration by the last docket action should not replace the statutory docketing and renewal requirements already explained.

Pahrump, New River and the remaining local routes

Pahrump Justice Court's records-request service supplies an online request form and a separate link for case information. It states that charges can apply to a document request. The fee landing page links a civil schedule revised September 3, 2025, carrying a January 1, 2017 effective-date heading. Its general civil tiers are $51, $101, $176 and $251 and small-claims tiers are $46, $66, $86, $126 and $176, with service charged separately. A writ is $26, renewal $25, copies $0.50 per page, certification $3 and a yearly search $1. The schedule's asterisk identifies included census-related amounts, which should not be added twice. The counter at 1520 East Basin Avenue, Suite 104, is open Monday through Thursday from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM without a midday closure.

New River's civil fee chart lists general tiers of $51, $101, $176 and $251 and small-claims tiers of $46, $66, $86, $126 and $176. It lists $50 for the combined execution and garnishment service and $25 for attachment. Copies cost $0.50 per page and a search costs $1 per name and year. The displayed certification entry says $3 per page, which conflicts with the certification unit in other court schedules; confirm the requested product with this clerk before paying. Its personnel charge is stated as $23.41 per hour after the identified ten-hour threshold, with a deposit based on the estimate and actual postage separately described. That threshold is material to the quoted labor charge.

The remaining justice-court contacts are retained below even where a fee PDF, historical image table or local application could not be read. Eureka's linked fee sheet was image-only in the available result, while fee routes for Lake, Union and Walker River did not yield usable bodies. Wadsworth's state-directory entry provides the office contact without a separate local website link. No neighboring court's amount is substituted for those gaps. Likewise, a Tuesday or Wednesday court session in a Lincoln County entry describes a hearing schedule, not necessarily the clerk's full weekly counter hours.

Federal district-court contact and electronic coverage

The federal district court's CM/ECF court-information record identifies a November 7, 2005 electronic-filing go-live date. That is a system deployment date, not proof that every earlier case was scanned. It lists clerk contacts at 333 South Las Vegas Boulevard, Las Vegas, NV 89101, telephone 702-464-5400, and 400 South Virginia Street, Reno, NV 89501, telephone 775-686-5800. The published hours are weekdays from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM, excluding federal holidays. A federal judgment entered in Nevada still needs the applicable state recording steps when the question is its lien against Nevada real estate.

District and justice-court contact directory

NRS 3.010 divides Nevada into eleven judicial districts. Carson City and Storey form the First; Washoe the Second; Lyon the Third; Elko the Fourth; Esmeralda and Nye the Fifth; Humboldt the Sixth; Eureka, White Pine and Lincoln the Seventh; Clark the Eighth; Douglas the Ninth; Churchill the Tenth; and Lander, Mineral and Pershing the Eleventh. District geography does not merge each county's recording office or make a county recorder the custodian of every court file.

The state district-court directory and justice-court directory supplied the sixty individually read entries below: nineteen district-clerk or division entries and forty-one justice-court entries. Local corrections described above are applied to Lander, Mineral, Nye and White Pine. Elko's county-clerk listing is retained as that particular office; court administration is separately described. Reno's apparent email spelling errors are omitted. Wells' conflicting physical ZIP is withheld while its mailing-box ZIP is retained. A listed office contact does not promise that its online service exposes sealed documents or a complete historical file.