Legal Question in Family Law in Nevada
I have a 12 year old son and a 10 year old daughter. I work a graveyard shift from 11pm to 7am. Question is are they old enough to be left home alone during these hours or is there any violation in doing this?
1 Answer from Attorneys
You are going to have to use your best judgment regarding your children. I advise you have a trusted female family member stay overnight without a man around. You have to comply with the following law:
CONTRIBUTORY DELINQUENCY AND NEGLECT OF CHILDREN
����� NRS 201.090 ��Neglected child,� �delinquent child� and �child in need of supervision� defined. �As used in NRS 201.100 and 201.110, unless the context otherwise requires, a �neglected child,� �delinquent child� or �child in need of supervision� means any person less than 18 years of age:
����� 1. �Who is found begging, receiving or gathering alms, or who is found in any street, road or public place for the purpose of so doing, whether actually begging or doing so under the pretext of selling or offering for sale any article, or of singing or playing on any musical instrument, or of giving any public entertainment or accompanying or being used in aid of any person so doing.
����� 2. �Who has no parent or guardian, who has no parent or guardian willing to exercise or capable of exercising proper parental control, or who has no parent or guardian actually exercising such proper parental control, and who is in need of such control.
����� 3. �Who is destitute, or who is not provided with the necessities of life by his or her parents, and who has no other means of obtaining such necessities.
����� 4. �Whose home is an unfit place for the child, by reason of neglect, cruelty or depravity of either of his or her parents, or of his or her guardians or other person in whose custody or care the child is.
����� 5. �Who is found living in any house of ill fame, or with any disreputable person.
����� 6. �Who is found wandering and either has no home, no settled place of abode, no visible means of subsistence or no proper guardianship.
����� 7. �Who frequents the company of criminals, vagrants or prostitutes, or persons so reputed, or who is in any house of prostitution or assignation.
����� 8. �Who unlawfully visits a saloon where any spirituous, vinous or malt liquors are sold, bartered, exchanged or given away.
����� 9. �Who habitually uses intoxicating liquors or who uses opium, cocaine, morphine, or other similar drug without the direction of a competent physician.
����� 10. �Who persistently or habitually refuses to obey the reasonable and proper orders or directions of his or her parents, guardian or custodian, or who is beyond the control of such person.
����� 11. �Who is a habitual truant from school.
����� 12. �Who is leading, or from any cause is in danger of leading, an idle, dissolute, lewd or immoral life.
����� 13. �Who writes or uses vile, obscene, profane or indecent language, or is guilty of indecent, immoral or lascivious conduct.
����� 14. �Who violates any law of this State or any ordinance of any town, city or county of this State defining crime.
� Any child who is a runaway, unmanageable or a habitual truant is a child in need of supervision as that term is used in title 5 of NRS, and is not a delinquent child.
����� [Part 1:165:1909; A 1911, 382; 1921, 21; 1955, 152]�(NRS A 1973, 1350; 2003, 1125)
����� NRS 201.100 �How offense may be termed. �When the charge against any person under NRS 201.090, 201.100 and 201.110 concerns the neglect of a child or children, or the problems of a child in need of supervision, the offense, for convenience, may be termed �contributory neglect,� and when it concerns the delinquency of a child or children, for convenience it may be termed �contributory delinquency.�
����� [Part 1:165:1909; A 1911, 382; 1921, 21; 1955, 152]�(NRS A 1973, 1351)
����� NRS 201.110 �Definition; penalties; exception.
����� 1. �Except as otherwise provided in this section, any person who commits any act or omits the performance of any duty, which act or omission causes or tends to cause or encourage any person under the age of 18 to become a �neglected child,� �child in need of supervision� or �delinquent child,� as defined in NRS 201.090, 201.100 and 201.110 or which act or omission contributes thereto, or any person who, by any act or omission, or by threats, command or persuasion, induces or endeavors to induce any person under the age of 18 to perform any act or to follow any course of conduct or to so live as would cause or manifestly tend to cause any such person to become or to remain a person who is a �neglected child,� �child in need of supervision� or �delinquent child,� as defined in NRS 201.090, is guilty of contributory neglect or contributory delinquency. Contributory neglect or contributory delinquency is a misdemeanor.
����� 2. �A person does not commit a violation of subsection 1 by virtue of the sole fact that the person delivers or induces the delivery of a child to a provider of emergency services pursuant to NRS 432B.630.
����� [Part 1:165:1909; A 1911, 382; 1921, 21; 1955, 152]�(NRS A 1967, 474; 1973, 1351; 2001,