125.500  Award of custody to person other than parent.

1.  Before the court makes an order awarding custody to any person other than a parent, without the consent of the parents, it shall make a finding that an award of custody to a parent would be detrimental to the child and the award to a nonparent is required to serve the best interest of the child.

2.  No allegation that parental custody would be detrimental to the child, other than a statement of that ultimate fact, may appear in the pleadings.

3.  The court may exclude the public from any hearing on this issue.

(Added to NRS by 1981, 284)—(Substituted in revision for NRS 125.138)