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NRS 123.190 — Earnings of either spouse appropriated to own use pursuant to written authorization of other spouse deemed gift.
Nevada Revised Statutes, Chapter 123 — RIGHTS OF MARRIED COUPLES
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When a spouse has given written authority to his or her spouse to appropriate to his or her own use the spouse’s earnings, the same, with the issues and profits thereof, is deemed a gift from one spouse to the other, and is, with such issues and profits, the latter spouse’s separate property.
[15:119:1873; B § 165; BH § 513; C § 524; RL § 2169; NCL § 3369]—(NRS A 1973, 1036; 2017, 762)