Checklist for Establishing Nevada Residency

1. Change your driver’s license to your new state and cancel your old state’s driver’s license.

2. Change your passport to reflect your new state.

3. Register your car in your new state and notify your insurance company of the change.

4. Register to vote in your new state and cancel your old state’s registration.

5. Move your religious affiliation and membership to a local group or house of worship in your new state; make local contributions.

6. Buy a home in your new state — and if possible, sell your home in your old state (or transfer it to family members or other entities). If you can’t buy a home right away, rent with a long-term lease.

7. Claim a homestead exemption in your new state (if applicable) and relinquish any homestead claim in your old state.

8. Revise your estate planning documents (wills, trusts, powers of attorney, health care powers of attorney, advance care directives, etc.) to recite your new state, and use your new state’s forms.

9. Change your bank accounts to your new state without retaining bank accounts in your former state.

10. Move your safe deposit box to your new state.

11. If you plan on working, secure employment in your new state.

12. Obtain a library card in your new state.

13. Change social clubs and service clubs (Rotary, country club, Kiwanis, golf club, etc.) to your new state; serve on local charitable boards.

14. If you have school-age children, enroll them in your new state’s school as soon as possible.

15. Engage local medical professionals; send your medical records to them.

16. Change your address with the IRS — list your new address on your returns.

17. Notify vendors (credit cards, etc.) of your new address.

18. Change other local service providers to your new state, such as tax advisors and attorneys.

19. Have your family visit your new home state for important occasions, or have other family members move to the new state, too. The more family activities in the new state, the stronger the evidence that the new state is really your new domicile. Be careful of supporting a spouse or children located in your old state, which could be used as evidence against you in an audit.

20. Active business involvement in your old state is evidence that there has been no change in domicile. Work as much as possible in the new state, and set up a “real” office in the new state, not just a home office. If you own the business, consider moving the principal place of business to the new state and withdrawing any business registration in the old state. Consider reorganizing the business entity in the new state.

21. Funeral and burial arrangements should be made in the new state.

22. Keep a daily calendar (with receipts, if possible) showing that you were outside your former state for each day.

As a general rule, you want to stay out of your former state for more than 183 days in each calendar year.