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NRS 130.401

Issuance of support order by tribunal with personal jurisdiction

Known as the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act

The act spans §§ 130–130 (116 sections).

(Added to NRS by 1997, 2321; A 2007, 129; 2009, 135; 2015, 895; 2017, 250)

1. If a support order entitled to recognition under this chapter has not been issued, a responding tribunal of this State with personal jurisdiction over the parties may issue a support order if:

(a) The natural person seeking the order resides outside this State; or

(b) The support-enforcement agency seeking the order is located outside this State.

2. The tribunal may issue a temporary child-support order if the tribunal determines that such an order is appropriate and the natural person ordered to pay is:

(a) A presumed father of the child under subsection 1 of NRS 126.051;

(b) Petitioning to have his paternity adjudicated;

(c) Identified as the father of the child through genetic testing;

(d) An alleged father who has declined to submit to genetic testing;

(e) Shown by clear and convincing evidence to be the father of the child;

(f) An acknowledged father or acknowledged parent as provided by NRS 126.053;

(g) The mother of the child; or

(h) A natural person who has been ordered to pay child support in a previous proceeding and the order has not been reversed or vacated.

3. Upon finding, after notice and opportunity to be heard, that an obligor owes a duty of support, the tribunal shall issue a support order directed to the obligor and may issue other orders pursuant to NRS 130.305.

Official source: Nevada Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Nevada statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.