Nevada Code § 225.400

Contents of registry not required to be verified for accuracy or legal validity; lack of presumptions concerning documents filed in registry; effect of registration, failure to register and failure to notify Secretary of State of revocation of will or other document
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If
the Nevada Lockbox is established pursuant to NRS
225.360 :
1. The provisions of NRS 225.300 to 225.440 , inclusive, do not require that the
Secretary of State determine whether the contents of a will or other document
submitted for registration are accurate or whether the execution or issuance of
the will or other document complies with the requirements necessary to make the
will or other document valid.
2. The registration of a will or other
document does not establish or create a presumption that the contents thereof
are accurate or that the execution or issuance of the will or other document
complies with the requirements necessary to make the will or other document
valid.
3. The registration of or the failure to
register a will or other document does not otherwise affect the validity of the
will or other document.
4. Failure to notify the Secretary of
State of the revocation of a will or other document does not affect the validity
of the will or other document.
5. The existence or nonexistence of the
registration of a will must not be considered an evidentiary fact in a
proceeding relating to the will.
6. The failure to register a document
related to a will must not be considered in determining the validity of the
will.
7. An attorney is not subject to liability
for malpractice for failing to register a will, or any document related to the
will, of a client.

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