Practice Areas

A prenup sets out how property, income, debt, and business interests are treated if a marriage ends. Nevada is a community property state, so without one a court decides instead of the two of you. We draft prenuptial and postnuptial agreements for couples in Reno, Las Vegas, and across Nevada, built to survive the scrutiny they get later.

Family law covers the decisions that change how a household runs: who the children live with, how support gets calculated, how property is divided. We handle those matters across Nevada. Marshall Lyon came to family law from public defense work, which shows up as disciplined preparation and a realistic read on your options rather than an optimistic one.

We represent clients in divorce throughout Nevada, contested and uncontested. Some cases turn on a single disputed asset and some on years of tangled finances. Either way you get guidance at every stage, from the first filing through final orders, and an honest estimate of how long it is likely to take.

When spouses agree on every required issue, the process gets considerably shorter and cheaper. It still has to be precise. Nevada has specific filing requirements, and a petition that misses one comes back. We handle the paperwork and the court filings so that an agreement you already reached actually holds.

A joint petition is the filing two spouses submit together once everything is settled. No service of process, and in most cases no hearing. We offer it two ways: drafting only, for couples who want the documents prepared properly, or full service if you would rather hand the whole thing over.

When a divorce involves a business, commercial property, retirement accounts, or compensation that is not simply a salary, the work shifts. Before anything gets divided it has to be valued. We handle that valuation work and the negotiation that follows, with the aim of keeping a business intact where that is possible.

Nevada decides custody in two parts, legal and physical, and they are decided separately. We help parents build parenting plans, argue custody where agreement is not possible, and return to court for modifications when circumstances change. The standard is the child’s best interest, and the case gets built around that.

Nevada calculates child support by formula, but the inputs are where the arguments happen: income that varies month to month, self-employment, a parent who is underemployed. We handle initial calculations, enforcement when payments stop, and modifications when income changes on either side.