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NRS 41.370 – Public policy against causes of action for breach of promise, alienation of affections and criminal conversation.

The remedies provided by law for the enforcement of actions based upon alleged alienation of affections and breach of contract to marry before March 5, 1943, and for alleged criminal conversation before July 1, 1979, having been subjected to grave abuses, caused extreme annoyance, embarrassment, humiliation and pecuniary damage to many persons wholly innocent and […]

NRS 41.380 – Causes of action abolished.

All civil causes of action for breach of promise to marry, alienation of affections, and criminal conversation, are hereby abolished; but this section does not abolish any cause of action for criminal conversation which accrued before July 1, 1979. [2:53:1943; 1943 NCL § 4071.01]—(NRS A 1979, 1172)

NRS 41.400 – Act or contract gives no right of action.

No act done within this state operates to give rise, either within or without this state, to any of the rights of action abolished by NRS 41.370 to 41.420, inclusive. No contract to marry made or entered into in this state operates to give rise, either within or without this state, to any cause or […]

NRS 41.410 – Unlawful to file actions after July 1, 1979.

After July 1, 1979, it is unlawful for any person, either as litigant or attorney, to file, cause to be filed, threaten to file, or threaten to cause to be filed, in any court of this state, any pleading or paper setting forth or seeking to recover upon any cause of action abolished or barred […]

NRS 41.420 – Penalty.

Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of NRS 41.370 to 41.420, inclusive, upon conviction, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. [6:53:1943; 1943 NCL § 4071.05]