Nevada § 161.010 - Appointment

§ 161.010. Appointment

Whenever a person, referred to in this chapter as an absentee, serving in or with

the Armed Forces of the United States, or a person serving as a merchant seaman, has

been reported or listed as missing, or missing in action, or interned in a neutral

country, or beleaguered, besieged or captured by an enemy, has an interest in any

form of property in this state or is a legal resident of this state and has not provided

an adequate power of attorney authorizing another to act in his or her behalf in regard

to such property or interest, then the district court of the county of the absentee's

legal domicile or of the county where such property is situated, upon petition alleging

the foregoing facts and showing the necessity for providing care of the property of

such absentee made by any person who would have an interest in the property of the

absentee were such absentee deceased, or on the court's own motion, after notice to,

or on receipt of proper waivers from, the heirs and next of kin of the absentee as

provided by law for the administration of an estate, and upon good cause being shown,

may, after finding the facts to be as aforesaid, appoint a conservator to take charge

of the absentee's estate, under the supervision and subject to the further orders

of the court.