How to Fill Out the Nevada Family Court Financial Disclosure Form

If you’re a party in a Nevada divorce, legal separation, or family support case, you must complete the Nevada family court financial disclosure form, file it with the clerk of court, and serve a copy on the other side within 30 days of receiving the summons and complaint. The standard version is called the General Financial Disclosure Form (GFDF), it runs seven pages plus instructions, and you sign it under penalty of perjury rather than in front of a notary.¹

Which Version You Fill Out

The GFDF is the default form under Nevada Rule of Civil Procedure 16.2 for contested divorces, legal separations, and disputes over child support or alimony. You can download the fillable PDF from the Nevada Self-Help Center or pick up a paper copy at a regional office such as the Clark County Family Law Self-Help Center.²

A Detailed Financial Disclosure Form (DFDF) replaces the general one only when a party files a Request to Opt-in and certifies that at least one of these applies: either party’s individual gross income (or the parties’ combined gross income) exceeds $250,000 per year; either party owns, is a partner in, or is a managing or majority shareholder or member of a business, or is self-employed; or the combined gross value of assets exceeds $1,000,000.¹ Once served, both parties have 45 days to file the DFDF unless the court orders otherwise. If none of those triggers is filed against you, the general form is what you complete.

Filling Out the GFDF Section by Section

Before you start, pull together your recent pay stubs, bank and investment statements, credit card bills, mortgage or lease documents, and any self-employment records. Guessing on a form signed under penalty of perjury is a bad idea.³

Monthly Income

Page 2 asks for gross monthly income before taxes or voluntary deductions. If you’re paid hourly, the form walks you through the calculation: hourly wage times hours per week times 52 weeks divided by 12 months. You also enter year-to-date gross pay as of your most recent pay period.³

Below wages, list other income: annuity or trust income, bonuses, commissions or tips, net rental income, overtime, pension or retirement payments, Social Security disability, spousal support, child support, and workers’ compensation. Convert quarterly or annual payments to a monthly average.

Monthly Deductions

Page 3 captures payroll deductions that take you from gross to net pay: federal income tax, Social Security, Medicare, health insurance, life or disability premiums, retirement contributions (pension, IRA, or 401(k)), court-ordered child support, union dues, and federal health savings plan contributions.³ Pull these figures directly from your most recent pay stub.

Business and Self-Employment Income

If you run a business or freelance, the bottom of page 3 has a separate schedule. Enter your average gross monthly revenue before expenses, then itemize business expenses across categories like advertising, vehicle costs, commissions and wages paid, travel, insurance, rent, repairs, supplies, taxes and licenses, and utilities. Each expense gets a frequency, an amount, and a 12-month average.

Attach a copy of your most recent year-to-date income statement or profit-and-loss statement.³ Self-employment income draws closer scrutiny than W-2 wages, and if your IRS Schedule C shows figures that don’t line up with your disclosure, expect questions.

Personal Monthly Expenses

Page 4 itemizes household living costs: mortgage or rent, property taxes, homeowner’s insurance, HOA fees, electric, gas, water, sewer, phone, internet and cable, food, clothing, auto insurance, car payments, fuel, dry cleaning, lawn care, pest control, pool service, pet expenses, security, student loans, credit card payments, unreimbursed medical expenses, and membership fees. Each line takes a monthly dollar figure.

Judges use these numbers alongside your income to calculate disposable income available for support. Inflating expenses to look strapped or understating them to minimize the other party’s need both damage your credibility, and the perjury declaration makes either approach risky.

Household and Children

Page 5 collects information about children and other people in your household. For each child, list name, date of birth, current living arrangement, your relationship, and whether the child has special needs. Below that, break out monthly costs per child: cell phone, child care, clothing, education, entertainment, extracurricular activities and sports, health insurance, summer programs, transportation for visitation, vehicle costs, and other expenses.

If other adults live with you, list each one’s name, age, relationship to you, and monthly contribution to household expenses.

Assets and Debts

Page 6 has two charts. The first covers secured assets and their attached debts: real estate, vehicles, bank accounts, investment accounts, retirement funds, and other property. For each item, enter gross value, total owed, net value, and whose name is on the account.³

The second chart is for unsecured debts: credit cards, personal loans, medical bills, and anything else without collateral. List the creditor, the balance, and whose name is on the account.³ Use current statements, not memory.

For real estate, use a reasonable fair market value from a recent appraisal or a comparative market analysis. For retirement accounts, use the most recent statement value. If the case eventually involves dividing a pension or defined-benefit plan, the court may need a present-value calculation later, but reporting the current balance is what the form calls for.

Attorney Fees and Signature

Page 7 asks whether you’ve retained an attorney, how much you’ve paid, any remaining credit, and any amounts still owed, including fees to a prior attorney. You then sign a declaration under penalty of perjury affirming the information is true and correct.³ No notary is required.

Supporting Documents You Must Serve

The form alone isn’t enough. NRCP 16.2(d) requires you to serve mandatory initial disclosures at the same time. For every line item on the GFDF, you must provide the statement, receipt, or other evidence you relied on. Where no documentary evidence exists, provide a written explanation of how you arrived at the number.¹

Beyond line-item support, the rule specifically requires:

All monthly or periodic statements for bank, checking, savings, brokerage, investment, cryptocurrency, and security accounts in which either party has or had an interest, from six months before service of the summons through the date of disclosure.
All credit card and debt statements for both parties over the same period.
Deeds, deeds of trust, purchase agreements, escrow documents, settlement sheets, and any other documents showing real property ownership, legal description, and purchase price.
W-2, 1099, and K-1 forms for the past two completed calendar years, plus year-to-date pay stubs and similar income records from six months before service through the disclosure date.
All personal and business tax returns, balance sheets, and profit-and-loss statements for the last five completed calendar or fiscal years for any business either party has had an interest in within the past 12 months.

Start collecting these records the day you’re served. Waiting until day 25 to track down six months of statements and five years of business returns is how deadlines get missed.¹

Redacting Personal Information Before You File

Scrub sensitive identifiers from every document. In the Eighth Judicial District (Clark County), you must redact the following from all filings, including exhibits:⁴

Social Security numbers — last four digits only.
Financial account numbers — last four digits only.
Tax identification numbers — last four digits only.

The same restrictions apply to anything said aloud in open hearings. The clerk does not check compliance; redaction is on you or your attorney. Filing a document with a full Social Security number without a sealing request waives the protection. Other Nevada judicial districts follow similar rules, so check local rules if your case is outside Clark County.

Filing and Serving

Once the form is complete and signed, file it and all supporting documents with the clerk of court. Clark County’s Eighth Judicial District uses the Odyssey File & Serve system for electronic filing.⁵ Washoe County and other jurisdictions increasingly require or accept e-filing, though some rural courts still take paper filings at the clerk’s window. In Nye County, general instructions call for the original plus three copies filed with the Legal Filing Department at the clerk’s office.⁶

After filing, serve a copy of the disclosure and all mandatory initial disclosures on the opposing party, or on their attorney if they are represented. NRCP 5 governs service, which can happen electronically through the e-filing system, by mail, or by hand delivery, depending on what your jurisdiction allows. File proof of service afterward; a certificate of service or acknowledgment of receipt satisfies the requirement.⁷

Your Continuing Duty to Update

Filing once doesn’t end the obligation. NRCP 16.2(f) makes disclosure a continuing duty. When you learn your disclosure is materially incomplete or incorrect (a raise, a job loss, a new debt, a sold asset), you must file and serve an amended disclosure within 14 days. If a hearing or other court event is scheduled less than 14 days away, the update is due within 24 hours of discovering the change.¹

Cases that stretch on can involve multiple supplemental disclosures. If income or expenses shift meaningfully before final judgment, update rather than wait to be asked.

Penalties for Late, Incomplete, or False Disclosure

Under NRCP 16.2(g), if you fail to file or serve the disclosure on time, or you leave out required information, the court must impose sanctions unless you show both good cause and that another remedy fully compensates the other side for the resulting delays and expenses.¹

Available sanctions include:

A finding of civil contempt for failing to comply.
An order requiring you to pay the other side’s reasonable expenses caused by the failure.
Prohibiting you from introducing certain evidence or from supporting or opposing designated claims.
Striking pleadings, or any other sanction the court considers appropriate, for repeat or egregious violations.

Intentionally misreporting income triggers a separate provision. If the other party proves by a preponderance of the evidence that you deliberately understated or failed to report income, the court must sanction you, again including contempt and attorney fee awards.¹ Because the form is signed under penalty of perjury, a knowingly false statement can also expose you to criminal perjury charges, though courts more commonly address the problem through civil sanctions.

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Nevada Legislature. Nevada Rules of Civil Procedure
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State of Nevada Self-Help Center. Miscellaneous Forms
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Nevada Supreme Court Law Library. Nevada General Financial Disclosure Form
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Nevada Legislature. Rules of Practice for the Eighth Judicial District Court of the State of Nevada
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Eighth Judicial District Court. Electronic Filing
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Nye County, Nevada. General Instructions for Completing NRCP 16.2 Financial Disclosure Form
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Nevada Judiciary. Nevada Rules of Civil Procedure 5 – Serving and Filing Pleadings and Other Papers