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Nearly all household goods, furniture, family heirlooms, clothing, personal jewelry and retirement accounts are also exempt from creditors in bankruptcy. Life insurance policies are usually exempt, as well as 529 college savings plans. As to wages, Nevada law allows you to shield 75% of your income from creditors.
You can look at your credit report at .annualcreditreport or you can go to the local clerk for the courts and search the county database. If there are judgments in other jurisdictions you would have to look there as well.
Judgment is a court decision that settles a dispute between two parties by determining the rights and obligations of each party. Judgments are classified as in personam, in rem, or quasi in rem. Judgments are usually monetary, but can also be non-monetary, and are legally enforceable.
Nevada laws carve out a long list of property exempt from execution. Below are some examples of exemptions: Necessary household goods, furnishings, electronics, clothes, yard equipment, and other personal effects up to $12,000 in value.
If your debt judgment is unpaid, it will form an immediate lien if you buy a house. So no mortgage lender will lend. At closing time they'll find it you also need to disclose the judgment in the application. Failing to do so is misrepresentation.
You can go in person to the County Clerk Office in the County where you live to ask if a judgment has been entered against you. Most counties also allow you to search online.