Legal Question in Family Law in California

I am not an Nevada attorney, and cannot give you advice on Nevada law, but it appears to me that you must live in Nevada for six weeks, as you say, before filing for divorce, and then there is no waiting period for the divorce to be processed to finality. I am told that can take as little as two weeks. If you file in California, you already meet the six-months California residency requirement, so you can file immediately, but California requires you to wait six months after you serve the respondent spouse, before your actual judgment of dissolution can be entered. If you file in California and move to Nevada, there is no reason you cannot just complete your case in California, travelling from Nevada if necessary (not likely since an uncontested divorce can usually be done without court appearances), but you would still be subject to California law. So if statutory time limits are all you care about, then simple math says NV would be the place for a quicker divorce. The big caveat in all this, is that if your spouse does not want the divorce to proceed in Nevada for any reason, just because Nevada has jurisdiction over you doesn't mean it has jurisdiction over them. So unless they voluntarily respond to the Nevada case and proceed there rather than contesting jurisdiction, Nevada may not be able to give you a divorce and you would then have to start over in California.