Amount of payment: Determination
Applied in 31 court decisions — leading case Rivero v. Rivero (2009)
Most recently applied in BACKMAN v. GELBMAN (February 2025)
(Added to NRS by 1987, 2267; A 1989, 859; 1991, 1334; 1993, 486; 1997, 2295; 2001, 1866; 2017, 2284)
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
A court of this State shall apply the guidelines established by the Administrator of the Division of Social Services of the Department of Human Services pursuant to NRS 425.620 to:
1. Determine the required support in any case involving the support of children; or
2. Change the amount of the required support of children.
Official source: Nevada Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Nevada statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.