NRS 130.401
Issuance of support order by tribunal with personal jurisdiction.

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.

Source: Section 130.401 — Issuance of support order by tribunal with personal jurisdiction., https://www.­leg.­state.­nv.­us/NRS/NRS-130.­html#NRS130Sec401.

Last Updated

Feb. 5, 2021

§ 130.401’s source at nv​.us