Protected Early Lease-Termination Notice - Nevada
PROTECTED EARLY LEASE-TERMINATION NOTICE
State: Nevada
Safety first. Do not use an account, device, mailing address, or delivery method the adverse person can monitor. Call emergency services if there is immediate danger. This notice requests only information needed for the statutory route; do not add a detailed history of abuse.
1. Tenant, Landlord, and Lease
| Item | Information |
|---|---|
| Tenant giving notice | [________________________________] |
| Other protected person, only if needed to establish coverage | [________________________________] |
| Landlord / authorized recipient | [________________________________] |
| Rental premises | [________________________________] |
| Lease / rental agreement date | [__/__/____] |
| Current rent period | [________________________________] |
| Notice date | [__/__/____] |
2. Notice of Protected Termination
I notify the Landlord that I am using the protected early-termination route described in Section 10. I or a person covered through me meets the state-specific eligibility rule, and I reasonably request release from future obligations as provided by that rule.
I am not providing a perpetrator's name or incident narrative in this notice. Any state-required identifying or incident information appears only in the permitted supporting document and is redacted or limited as Section 10 directs.
3. Date and Deadline Calculator
| Event | Date / calculation |
|---|---|
| Notice delivered | [__/__/____] |
| Statutory minimum notice or effective-date rule | [________________________________] |
| Requested termination / release date | [__/__/____] |
| Planned or actual vacancy date | [__/__/____] |
| Keys / access devices returned | [__/__/____] |
| Separate follow-up notice due, if any | [__/__/____] |
| Documentation lookback or filing deadline | [________________________________] |
Do not use the requested date until Section 10 has been applied to the actual delivery method, rent interval, and documentation date.
4. Supporting Document
Attach only a document allowed by Section 10:
☐ Protection / no-contact order
☐ Law-enforcement or court record
☐ Qualified-third-party document
☐ Health-care or victim-services document expressly allowed by state law
☐ Other state-enumerated document: [________________________________]
Document date: [__/__/____]
Redactions completed: ☐ Yes ☐ Not permitted/needed
No medical record, diagnosis, therapy notes, full police file, or extra incident narrative is included unless the state-specific rule expressly requires it and counsel confirms the scope.
5. Vacancy, Rent, Deposit, and Property
I will surrender possession as required by the state route. I request a written ledger showing:
- rent through the lawful termination or release date;
- credits and prepaid rent;
- any security-deposit accounting;
- separately identified pre-termination balances; and
- no lease-break fee or future rent beyond what the state route permits.
Personal property left behind:
☐ None expected
☐ Instructions attached
☐ State-specific property instructions in Section 10 apply
6. Cotenants, Occupants, and Guarantors
Other tenants / occupants: [________________________________]
Guarantor, if any: [________________________________]
This notice does not guess whether another tenant, occupant, or guarantor is released. Apply the exact state rule and obtain a written account of who remains liable. Do not send this notice to an adverse cotenant unless the state rule or a court requires it and a safety plan is in place.
7. Safe Communications and Forwarding Address
Safe contact method:
☐ Email: [________________________________]
☐ Phone / text: [________________________________]
☐ Advocate or attorney: [________________________________]
☐ Mail to safe address: [________________________________]
Forwarding-address choice:
☐ Use the safe address above only for deposit/accounting mail.
☐ I will provide a forwarding address later.
☐ Send statutory financial notices through my attorney/advocate.
☐ Do not disclose my relocation address to any cotenant, occupant, adverse party, reference caller, or third party except with my written consent or as law requires.
8. Confidential Handling Request
Mark this notice and every attachment CONFIDENTIAL — RESTRICTED ACCESS. Limit access to personnel who must process the request. Do not place protected information in ordinary maintenance notes, tenant-screening comments, shared databases, or reference responses.
Return or securely destroy excess copies after the retention period required by law or counsel. These instructions supplement, and do not narrow, any mandatory state confidentiality rule.
9. Delivery Record
Method used:
☐ Hand delivery
☐ First-class mail
☐ Certified or tracked mail
☐ State-authorized electronic method
☐ Court-directed or other method: [________________________________]
Delivered to: [________________________________]
Delivery address / account: [________________________________]
Tracking, witness, receipt, or screenshot retained: ☐ Yes
10. Nevada Route — NRS §§ 118A.345 and 118A.347
This route covers a tenant, cotenant, or household member who is a victim of domestic violence, harassment, sexual assault, or stalking. Give written notice describing the reason. Termination is effective at the end of the current rental period or 30 days after notice, whichever occurs sooner.
Domestic-violence documentation may be a protection order, law-enforcement report, or the NRS 118A.347 qualified-third-party affidavit. Harassment, sexual assault, or stalking documentation may be a law-enforcement report or the applicable temporary or extended order under NRS 200.378 or 200.591.
The qualifying events must have occurred within 90 days immediately before notice. Rent and other obligations remain due through termination. The landlord may not disclose the protected person's whereabouts to the adverse party, and the termination may not be characterized to a prospective landlord as an early termination.
The statutory domestic-violence affidavit requires identification of the adverse party. Use that appendix only after safety planning with counsel or an advocate.
11. Tenant Signature
I certify that the statements I made in this notice are true to the best of my knowledge. I understand that the attached documentation and state-specific route control the effective date and financial result.
Tenant signature: ________________________________
Printed name: [________________________________]
Date: [__/__/____]
OPTIONAL NEVADA DOMESTIC-VIOLENCE AFFIDAVIT
This appendix is only for the qualified-third-party route under NRS 118A.347. The statute requires adverse-party identification.
Qualified third party and organization: [________________________________]
I, [________________________________], and/or [cotenant or household member: ________________________________], am a victim of domestic violence as defined in NRS 118A.345.
Brief description of incident(s): [________________________________]
Date(s), time(s), and location(s): [________________________________]
Person(s) who committed the incident(s): [________________________________]
I declare under penalty of perjury under Nevada law that the foregoing is true and correct.
Signed at [city], Nevada on [__/__/____].
Tenant/cotenant/household-member signature: ________________________________
I verify that the signer was a victim of domestic violence and informed me of the adverse party's name.
Qualified-third-party signature: ________________________________ Date: [__/__/____]
SOURCES AND REFERENCES
About this template
- Last updated
- July 23, 2026
- Citations checked
- July 23, 2026
- Jurisdiction
- Nevada
- Category
- Landlord & Tenant
Legal authority
- NRS §§ 118A.345, 118A.347 (protected termination and prescribed domestic-violence affidavit)
Landlord-tenant paperwork governs who can stay in a property, on what terms, and what happens when something goes wrong. Leases, notices to quit, security deposit demands, and habitability complaints all have state and often city-specific requirements for timing, content, and service. Getting the paperwork right is what makes an eviction actually succeed or a security deposit actually come back, because judges regularly dismiss cases over small procedural mistakes.
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Checked against the law it cites
A reviewer verified this template's legal citations against the official source on July 23, 2026.
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