1.  Money deposited in escrow is not subject to execution or attachment on any claim against the escrow agent or agency.

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Terms Used In Nevada Revised Statutes 645A.170

  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • Client: means a person that has engaged an escrow agent or escrow agency to administer an escrow related to a transaction. See Nevada Revised Statutes 645A.010
  • Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
  • Escrow: means any transaction wherein one person, for the purpose of effecting or closing the sale, purchase, exchange, transfer, encumbering or leasing of real or personal property to another person or persons, delivers any written instrument, money, evidence of title to real or personal property, or other thing of value to a third person to be held by such third person until the happening of a specified event or the performance of a prescribed condition, when it is then to be delivered by such third person, in compliance with instructions under which he or she is to act, to a grantee, grantor, promisee, promisor, obligee, obligor, lessee, lessor, bailee, bailor or any agent or employee thereof. See Nevada Revised Statutes 645A.010
  • Escrow agent: means any natural person employed by and associated with an escrow agency engaged in the business of administering escrows for compensation. See Nevada Revised Statutes 645A.010

2.  An escrow agent or agency shall not knowingly keep or cause to be kept any money in any bank, credit union or other financial institution under any name designating the money as belonging to the clients of any escrow agent or agency, unless the money was actually entrusted to the agent or agency by the client for deposit in escrow.