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2026 cost estimates for bankruptcy in Nevada, including attorney fees, court costs, and other expenses.
As of June 29, 2026, a bankruptcy in Nevada costs on average $3,800, typically $2,700-$5,400 for a moderate-complexity case, based on sourced attorney-fee and court-cost data. Typical attorney rates run $175 to $325 per hour. A moderate-complexity case typically takes 3-5 years to resolve. Common related costs include chapter 13 filing fee ($313) and credit counseling course ($25-$50).
Data verified: June 29, 2026
| Complexity | Low | Median | High | Typical Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Simple | $1,000 | $1,500 | $2,500 | 3-4 months |
| Moderate | $2,700 | $3,800 | $5,400 | 3-5 years |
| Complex | $2,800 | $4,650 | $7,400 | 3-5 years |
Last verified: June 2026
$175 – $325/ hour
Median: $250/hr
3-5 years
For moderate complexity cases
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</script>Bankruptcy cost formation splits along the two most common filing types. Chapter 7 (liquidation) is a shorter federal process, so attorney fees are usually charged as a flat fee covering the whole case. Chapter 13 (repayment plan) requires the attorney to stay involved for the full 3-5 year repayment period, so the fee is higher and is often split into an upfront portion plus ongoing amounts paid through the repayment plan itself.
On top of the attorney fee, every filer pays a federal court filing fee (set by statute, the same nationwide regardless of state) plus mandatory credit counseling and debtor education course fees. Case complexity within either chapter — multiple creditors, contested exemptions, business assets, or a means-test dispute — adds attorney hours beyond the base flat fee, which is why complex-case costs run well above the simple-case median shown on this page.
Take a moderate-complexity bankruptcy matter in Nevada. The recorded median total is $3,800, with reported quotes clustering between $2,700 and $5,400. Each statutory line below is sized against that median.
Added together the itemised lines come to $363–$413, which leaves roughly $3,387–$3,437 of the Nevada median as professional time — the part that differs between quotes. One further recorded fee is not itemised above and is not in that total.
At $3,800, the median bankruptcy cost in Nevada runs 9% above the $3,479 national average across all 50 states and DC.
Nevada carries 3 rows — simple, $1,000–$2,500 at $150–$275/hr over 3-4 months; moderate, $2,700–$5,400 at $175–$325/hr over 3-5 years; complex, $2,800–$7,400 at $200–$400/hr over 3-5 years — on 5 shared citations. They put it above the midpoint, short of the top quarter.
$3,800 is a median, not the middle of the band — $1,100 above the $2,700 floor, $1,600 under the $5,400 ceiling. Every rank below is out of 47.
At 17th of 47, Nevada sits above the midpoint of the bankruptcy table: $200 more than the $3,600 median state, or 6%, with 16 states recording a higher median.
Maryland ($3,800) and New Jersey ($3,800) bracket Nevada inside a $0 window — narrow enough that 17th is close to arbitrary.
7 tracked states — Illinois, Wisconsin, Maryland, New Jersey among them — record a median within three percent of Nevada's $3,800. The figure sits in the densest part of the bankruptcy distribution, where a rank change of several rows costs only a few hundred dollars.
The total is doing something the rate does not explain. Nevada sits 27th of 47 on rate at $250 an hour but 17th on total bankruptcy cost, 10 places higher — a signal that recorded matters here run long rather than dear.
| Rank | State | Median | Against Nevada |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | Minnesota | $4,050 | +$250 |
| 12 | New Hampshire | $4,050 | +$250 |
| 13 | Texas | $3,950 | +$150 |
| 14 | Illinois | $3,900 | +$100 |
| 15 | Wisconsin | $3,900 | +$100 |
| 16 | Maryland | $3,800 | −$0 |
| 17 | Nevada | $3,800 | — |
| 18 | New Jersey | $3,800 | −$0 |
| 19 | Pennsylvania | $3,800 | −$0 |
| 20 | Alaska | $3,700 | −$100 |
| 21 | Colorado | $3,700 | −$100 |
| 22 | Delaware | $3,650 | −$150 |
| 23 | Arizona | $3,600 | −$200 |
The 17th position is not a stable fact about Nevada: $0 up or $0 down moves Nevada a row, and a ten percent revision in either direction would cross 14 rows, 7 above and 7 below in near-equal numbers.
Climbing five places would mean passing New Hampshire, Texas, Illinois, Wisconsin, Maryland and adding $250 to the $3,800 recorded here.
Five places down means passing under New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Alaska, Colorado, Delaware: $150.
$600 short of Hawaii ($4,400), $1,450 clear of Kentucky ($2,350).
At $250 an hour, the $3,800 median represents about 15 hours of attorney time — a matter measured in days of work, not weeks. The peer median is 14 hours, so 1 more hours of work sit behind the Nevada figure than behind the typical state's.
The escalation is comparatively shallow on hours. A complex bankruptcy costs 3.1x a simple one in Nevada, but the implied workload only rises 2x — 8 hours at $200 becomes 16 hours at $300 — meaning the senior-rate premium of 1.5x carries an unusually large share of the increase.
From $2,700 to $5,400 the moderate band is $2,700 wide, close to the $2,550 peer median. End to end that is 11 hours at $250.
A third ordering: by implied hours Nevada is 5th of 47 at 15 hours, 12 places above its cost rank of 17th on cost — more work behind the same bankruptcy money.
33% up the $2,700–$5,400 band sits the $3,600 table midpoint, buying 14 hours at $250 against the 15 the local bankruptcy median implies — 1 hour apart.
| Measure | Nevada | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Moderate median | $3,800 | 17th |
| Hourly median | $250 | 27th |
| Implied hours | 15 | 5th |
| Simple median | $1,500 | 24th |
| Complex median | $4,650 | 29th |
$250 an hour puts Nevada between Michigan ($250) and Florida ($240) — not the bankruptcy cost pairing.
Maine, Michigan record the same $250: rate cannot separate them, totals do.
$3,800 buys 19 hours at $200, 15 at $250, 13 at $300.
| Rank | State | Median rate |
|---|---|---|
| 25 | Maine | $250 |
| 26 | Michigan | $250 |
| 27 | Nevada | $250 |
| 28 | Florida | $240 |
| 29 | Georgia | $240 |
Ranked tier by tier, Nevada slides 5 places downward: 24th at the simple tier, 17th at moderate, 29th at complex. Its headline moderate position sits between the two extremes rather than summarising them.
$1,500 is 24th of 47 on a straightforward bankruptcy, under Maine ($1,500) and over Ohio ($1,500), $0 over the $1,500 tier midpoint.
$4,650 is 29th of 47 once contested, between Texas ($4,800) and Wyoming ($4,600), $450 off the $5,100 tier midpoint.
$200 separates the simple ceiling of $2,500 from the moderate floor of $2,700, so the first escalation is a clean break, while the moderate and complex bands overlap from $2,800 upward. The expensive end of a routine bankruptcy and the cheap end of a contested one are the same money in Nevada.
| Tier | Nevada | Rank | Tier midpoint | Implied hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| simple | $1,500 | 24th | $1,500 | 8 |
| moderate | $3,800 | 17th | $3,600 | 15 |
| complex | $4,650 | 29th | $5,100 | 16 |
$1,500 drops Nevada to 24th of 47 on straightforward matters, 7 below its moderate position and $0 (0%) over the $1,500 tier midpoint.
8 implied hours at $200: 53% of the moderate tier's 15, over 3-4 months.
Maine ($1,500) and Ohio ($1,500) bracket it — a $0 window.
4 states sit within three percent of the $1,500 here, against 7 at the moderate row.
$4,650 drops Nevada to 29th of 47 on contested matters, 12 below its moderate position and $450 (9%) under the $5,100 tier midpoint.
16 implied hours at $300: 107% of the moderate tier's 15, over 3-5 years.
Texas ($4,800) and Wyoming ($4,600) bracket it — a $200 window.
1 states sit within three percent of the $4,650 here, against 7 at the moderate row.
| Rank | State | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 22 | Virginia | $1,550 |
| 23 | Maine | $1,500 |
| 24 | Nevada | $1,500 |
| 25 | Ohio | $1,500 |
| 26 | Texas | $1,500 |
| Rank | State | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 27 | Pennsylvania | $4,800 |
| 28 | Texas | $4,800 |
| 29 | Nevada | $4,650 |
| 30 | Wyoming | $4,600 |
| 31 | Missouri | $4,500 |
In Nevada a bankruptcy is 6th of 8 at $3,800, between Immigration and Real Estate Closing. At 38% of Criminal Defense ($10,000).
Across practice areas Nevada ranges from 17th of 47 for Bankruptcy to 28th for Criminal Defense — a 11-place spread, with its 17th on bankruptcy inside it.
Nevada is not equally priced in every practice area. Measured against each matter's own midpoint, Immigration runs 13% above its own midpoint while Criminal Defense runs 2% below its own midpoint — a 15-point spread between the extremes.
The largest tracked median in Nevada is 4.8x the smallest, effectively the 5.1x that the typical state records: the internal spread is ordinary even where the levels are not.
1 of 7 matter types rank Nevada in the upper third, 0 in the lower, 6 between; bankruptcy is 17th.
In percentile terms it sits at the 65th percentile of the 47 tracked states.
| Matter | Simple | Moderate | Complex | Hours | Rank | vs mid | Above |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Criminal Defense | $3,850 | $10,000 | $31,900 | 33 | 28th | −2% | Georgia |
| Divorce | $2,850 | $8,950 | $23,250 | 30 | 23rd | +5% | Georgia |
| DUI / DWI | $3,500 | $7,450 | $17,450 | 27 | 25th | level | Georgia |
| Personal Injury | $1,600 | $5,400 | $16,000 | — | — | +4% | — |
| Immigration | $1,800 | $5,350 | $10,350 | 19 | 18th | +13% | Maryland |
| Bankruptcy | $1,500 | $3,800 | $4,650 | 15 | 17th | +6% | Maryland |
| Real Estate Closing | $1,000 | $2,300 | $4,800 | 9 | 20th | +3% | Maryland |
| Estate Planning / Probate | $550 | $2,100 | $5,600 | 8 | 21st | +1% | Maryland |
Simple tier. $1,500 ÷ $200 = about 8 hours, spread over 3-4 months at roughly $429 a month. The $2,300 step to the moderate tier is 7 more hours at that rate.
Work against price. $3,800 to $4,650 is a $850 step weighted toward price: 1 more hours at $250 is $250, but $300 across 16 hours adds $800 — 76% of it.
Borrowing the wrong row. New Jersey ($3,800) is $0 light, Maryland ($3,800) is $0 heavy — but the $3,600 table midpoint is out by $200, 200x the neighbour error.
Contested against simple. At Nevada's own recorded figures, $4,650 buys 3.1 matters at the $1,500 simple median — or, counted in time, 16 implied hours against 8, a factor of 2 — the two ratios differing because the rate rises with the tier.
Verified June 2026. Filing fees change on the Nevadacourt's own schedule; billing models are covered in the legal fees guide.
This tool provides general cost estimates for informational purposes only. It is NOT legal advice. Costs vary significantly based on individual circumstances. Consult a licensed attorney in your jurisdiction for specific guidance.