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NV Rev Stat § 130.209 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 130 - Interjurisdictional Enforcement of Support|NRS 130.209 - Credit for payments.

A tribunal of this State shall credit amounts collected for a particular period pursuant to any child-support order against the amounts owed for the same period under any other child-support order for support of the same child issued by a tribunal of this State, another state or a foreign country.  (Added to NRS by 1997, 2316; A 2007, 123; 2009, 130; 2015, 895)
NV Rev Stat § 130.301 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 130 - Interjurisdictional Enforcement of Support|NRS 130.301 - Proceedings under act.

  1. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, NRS 130.301 to 130.319, inclusive, apply to all proceedings under the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act.  2. A petitioner who is a natural person or a support-enforcement agency may initiate a proceeding authorized under this chapter by filing a petition in an initiating tribunal for forwarding to a responding tribunal or by filing a petition or a comparable pleading directly in a tribunal of another state or a foreign country which has or can obtain personal jurisdiction over the respondent.  (Added to NRS by 1997, 2316; A 2007, 123; 2009, 130; 2015, 895)
NV Rev Stat § 130.302 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 130 - Interjurisdictional Enforcement of Support|NRS 130.302 - Action by minor parent.

A minor parent, or a guardian or other legal representative of a minor parent, may maintain a proceeding on behalf of or for the benefit of the minor’s child.  (Added to NRS by 1997, 2317)
NV Rev Stat § 130.303 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 130 - Interjurisdictional Enforcement of Support|NRS 130.303 - Application of law of State.

Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, a responding tribunal of this State:  1. Shall apply the procedural and substantive law generally applicable to similar proceedings originating in this State and may exercise all powers and provide all remedies available in those proceedings; and  2. Shall determine the duty of support and the amount payable in accordance with the law of this State.  (Added to NRS by 1997, 2317; A 2007, 124)
NV Rev Stat § 130.304 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 130 - Interjurisdictional Enforcement of Support|NRS 130.304 - Duties of initiating tribunal.

  1. Upon the filing of a petition authorized by this chapter, an initiating tribunal of this State shall forward the petition and its accompanying documents:  (a) To the responding tribunal or appropriate support-enforcement agency in the responding state; or  (b) If the identity of the responding tribunal is unknown, to the state information agency of the responding state with a request that they be forwarded to the appropriate tribunal and that receipt be acknowledged.  2. If requested by the responding tribunal, a tribunal of this State shall issue a certificate or other document and make findings required by the law of the responding state. If the responding tribunal is in a foreign country, upon request the tribunal of this State shall specify the amount of support sought, convert that amount into the equivalent amount in the foreign currency under the applicable official or market exchange rate as publicly reported and provide any other documents necessary to satisfy the requirements of the responding foreign tribunal.  (Added to NRS by 1997, 2317; A 2007, 124; 2009, 130; 2015, 891, 895)
NV Rev Stat § 130.305 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 130 - Interjurisdictional Enforcement of Support|NRS 130.305 - Duties and powers of responding tribunal.

  1. When a responding tribunal of this State receives a petition or comparable pleading from an initiating tribunal or directly pursuant to subsection 2 of NRS 130.301, it shall cause the petition or pleading to be filed and notify the petitioner where and when it was filed.  2. A responding tribunal of this State, to the extent not prohibited by other law, may do one or more of the following:  (a) Establish or enforce a support order, modify a child-support order, determine the controlling child-support order or determine parentage of a child;  (b) Order an obligor to comply with a support order, specifying the amount and the manner of compliance;  (c) Order the withholding of income;  (d) Determine the amount of any arrearages and specify a method of payment;  (e) Enforce orders by civil or criminal contempt, or both;  (f) Set aside property for satisfaction of the support order;  (g) Place liens and order execution on the obligor’s property;  (h) Order an obligor to keep the tribunal informed of his or her current residential address, electronic mail address, telephone number, employer, address of employment and telephone number at the place of employment;  (i) Issue a bench warrant for an obligor who has failed after proper notice to appear at a hearing ordered by the tribunal and enter the bench warrant in any local and state computer systems for criminal warrants;  (j) Order the obligor to seek appropriate employment by specified methods;  (k) Award reasonable attorney’s fees and other fees and costs; and  (l) Grant any other available remedy.  3. A responding tribunal of this State shall include in a support order issued under this chapter, or in the documents accompanying the order, the calculations on which the support order is based.  4. A responding tribunal of this State may not condition the payment of a support order issued under this chapter upon compliance by a party with provisions for visitation.  5. If a responding tribunal of this State issues an order under this chapter, the tribunal shall send a copy of the order to the petitioner and the respondent and to the initiating tribunal, if any.  6. If requested to enforce a support order, arrears or judgment or modify a support order stated in a foreign currency, a responding tribunal of this State shall convert the amount stated in the foreign currency to the equivalent amount in dollars under the applicable official or market exchange rate as publicly reported.  (Added to NRS by 1997, 2317; A 2007, 125; 2009, 130; 2015, 895)
NV Rev Stat § 130.306 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 130 - Interjurisdictional Enforcement of Support|NRS 130.306 - Inappropriate tribunal.

If a petition or comparable pleading is received by an inappropriate tribunal of this State, the tribunal shall forward the pleading and accompanying documents to an appropriate tribunal of this State or another state and notify the petitioner where and when the pleading was sent.  (Added to NRS by 1997, 2318; A 2007, 125; 2009, 131; 2015, 895)
NV Rev Stat § 130.307 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 130 - Interjurisdictional Enforcement of Support|NRS 130.307 - Duties of support-enforcement agency.

  1. A support-enforcement agency of this State, upon request, shall provide services to a petitioner in a proceeding under this chapter.  2. A support-enforcement agency of this State that is providing services to the petitioner shall:  (a) Take all steps necessary to enable an appropriate tribunal of this State, another state or a foreign country to obtain jurisdiction over the respondent;  (b) Request an appropriate tribunal to set a date, time and place for a hearing;  (c) Make a reasonable effort to obtain all relevant information, including information as to the income and property of the parties;  (d) Within 5 days, exclusive of Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays, after receipt of notice in a record from an initiating, responding or registering tribunal, send a copy of the notice to the petitioner;  (e) Within 5 days, exclusive of Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays, after receipt of communication in a record from the respondent or his or her attorney, send a copy of the communication to the petitioner; and  (f) Notify the petitioner if jurisdiction over the respondent cannot be obtained.  3. A support-enforcement agency of this State that requests registration of a child-support order in this State for enforcement or for modification shall make reasonable efforts:  (a) To ensure that the order to be registered is the controlling order; or  (b) If two or more child-support orders exist and the identity of the controlling order has not been determined, to ensure that a request for such a determination is made in a tribunal having jurisdiction to do so.  4. A support-enforcement agency of this State that requests registration and enforcement of a support order, arrears or judgment stated in a foreign currency shall convert the amounts stated in the foreign currency into the equivalent amounts in dollars under the applicable official or market exchange rate as publicly reported.  5. A support-enforcement agency of this State shall request a tribunal of this State to issue a child-support order and an income-withholding order that redirect payment of current support, arrears and interest if requested to do so by a support-enforcement agency of another state pursuant to a law similar to NRS 130.319.  6. This chapter does not create or negate a relationship of attorney and client or other fiduciary relationship between a support-enforcement agency or the attorney for the agency and the natural person being assisted by the agency.  (Added to NRS by 1997, 2318; A 2007, 125; 2009, 131; 2015, 895)
NV Rev Stat § 130.308 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 130 - Interjurisdictional Enforcement of Support|NRS 130.308 - Duties of Attorney General.

  1. If the Attorney General determines that a support-enforcement agency is neglecting or refusing to provide services to a natural person, the Attorney General may order the agency to perform its duties under this chapter or may provide those services directly to the person.  2. The Attorney General may determine that a foreign country has established a reciprocal arrangement for child support with this State and take appropriate action for notification of the determination.  (Added to NRS by 1997, 2318; A 2007, 126; 2009, 132; 2015, 895)
NV Rev Stat § 130.309 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 130 - Interjurisdictional Enforcement of Support|NRS 130.309 - Private counsel.

A natural person may employ private counsel to represent him or her in proceedings authorized by this chapter.  (Added to NRS by 1997, 2319)
NV Rev Stat § 130.310 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 130 - Interjurisdictional Enforcement of Support|NRS 130.310 - Duties of State Information Agency.

  1. The central unit established pursuant to NRS 425.400 is the State Information Agency under this chapter.  2. The State Information Agency shall:  (a) Compile and maintain a current list, including addresses, of the tribunals in this State which have jurisdiction under this chapter and any support-enforcement agencies in this State and transmit a copy to the state information agency of every other state;  (b) Maintain a register of names and addresses of tribunals and support-enforcement agencies received from other states;  (c) Forward to the appropriate tribunal in the county in this State in which an obligee who is a natural person or obligor resides, or in which an obligor’s property is believed to be located, all documents concerning a proceeding under this chapter received from another state or a foreign country; and  (d) Obtain information concerning the location of an obligor and the obligor’s property within this State that is not exempt from execution, by such means as postal verification and federal or state locator services, examination of telephone directories, requests for the obligor’s address from employers and examination of governmental records, including, to the extent not prohibited by other law, records relating to real property, vital statistics, law enforcement, taxation, motor vehicles, driver’s licenses and social security.  (Added to NRS by 1997, 2319; A 2007, 126; 2009, 132; 2015, 895)
NV Rev Stat § 130.311 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 130 - Interjurisdictional Enforcement of Support|NRS 130.311 - Pleadings and accompanying documents.

  1. In a proceeding under this chapter, a petitioner seeking to establish a support order, to determine parentage of a child or to register and modify a support order of a tribunal of another state or a foreign country must file a petition. Unless otherwise ordered pursuant to NRS 130.312, the petition or accompanying documents must provide, so far as known, the name, residential address and social security number of the obligor and the obligee or the parent and alleged parent, and the name, sex, residential address, social security number and date of birth of each child for whose benefit support is sought or whose parentage is to be determined. Unless filed at the time of registration, the petition must be accompanied by a copy of any support order known to have been issued by another tribunal. The petition may include any other information that may assist in locating or identifying the respondent.  2. The petition must specify the relief sought. The petition and accompanying documents must conform substantially with the requirements imposed by the forms mandated by federal law for use in cases filed by a support-enforcement agency.  (Added to NRS by 1997, 2319; A 2007, 127; 2009, 133; 2015, 895)
NV Rev Stat § 130.312 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 130 - Interjurisdictional Enforcement of Support|NRS 130.312 - Nondisclosure of information in exceptional circumstances.

If a party alleges in an affidavit or a pleading under oath that the health, safety or liberty of a party or child would be jeopardized by the disclosure of specific identifying information, that information must be sealed and may not be disclosed to the other party or the public. After a hearing in which a tribunal takes into consideration the health, safety or liberty of the party or child, the tribunal may order disclosure of information that the tribunal determines to be in the interest of justice.  (Added to NRS by 1997, 2319; A 2007, 127)
NV Rev Stat § 130.313 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 130 - Interjurisdictional Enforcement of Support|NRS 130.313 - Costs and fees.

  1. Except as otherwise required pursuant to Section 16 of Article 6 of the Nevada Constitution, a petitioner must not be required to pay a filing fee or other costs.  2. If an obligee prevails, a responding tribunal of this State may assess against an obligor filing fees, reasonable attorney’s fees and other costs, expenses for necessary travel and other reasonable expenses incurred by the obligee and the witnesses of the obligee. The tribunal may not assess fees, costs or expenses against the obligee or the support-enforcement agency of either the initiating or the responding state or foreign country, except as otherwise provided by other law. Attorney’s fees may be taxed as costs and may be ordered to be paid directly to the attorney, who may enforce the order in his or her own name. Payment of support owed to the obligee has priority over fees, costs and expenses.  3. The tribunal shall order the payment of costs and reasonable attorney’s fees if it determines that a hearing was requested primarily for delay. In a proceeding pursuant to NRS 130.601 to 130.614, inclusive, a hearing is presumed to have been requested primarily for delay if a registered support order is confirmed or enforced without change. This presumption is subject to rebuttal.  4. All attorney’s fees and other costs and expenses awarded to and collected by a district attorney pursuant to this section must be deposited in the general fund of the county and an equivalent amount must be allocated to augment the county’s program for the enforcement of support obligations.  (Added to NRS by 1997, 2319; A 2007, 127; 2009, 133; 2015, 891, 895)
NV Rev Stat § 130.314 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 130 - Interjurisdictional Enforcement of Support|NRS 130.314 - Limited immunity of petitioner.

  1. Participation by a petitioner in a proceeding under this chapter before a responding tribunal, whether in person, by private attorney or through services provided by a support-enforcement agency, does not confer personal jurisdiction over the petitioner in another proceeding.  2. A petitioner is not amenable to service of civil process while physically present in this State to participate in a proceeding under this chapter.  3. The immunity granted by this section does not extend to civil litigation based on acts unrelated to a proceeding under this chapter committed by a party while present in this State to participate in the proceeding.  (Added to NRS by 1997, 2320; A 2007, 128)
NV Rev Stat § 130.315 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 130 - Interjurisdictional Enforcement of Support|NRS 130.315 - Nonparentage as defense.

A party whose parentage of a child has been previously determined by or pursuant to law may not plead nonparentage as a defense to a proceeding under this chapter.  (Added to NRS by 1997, 2320)
NV Rev Stat § 130.316 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 130 - Interjurisdictional Enforcement of Support|NRS 130.316 - Special rules of evidence and procedure.

  1. The physical presence of a nonresident party who is a natural person in a tribunal of this State is not required for the establishment, enforcement or modification of a support order or the rendition of a judgment determining parentage of a child.  2. An affidavit, a document substantially complying with federally mandated forms or a document incorporated by reference in any of them, which would not be excluded under the hearsay rule in NRS 51.065 if given in person, is admissible in evidence if given under penalty of perjury by a party or witness residing outside this State.  3. A copy of the record of child-support payments certified as a true copy of the original by the custodian of the record may be forwarded to a responding tribunal. The copy is evidence of facts asserted therein and is admissible to show whether payments were made.  4. Copies of bills for testing for parentage of a child, and for prenatal and postnatal health care of the mother and child, furnished to the adverse party at least 20 days before trial are admissible in evidence to prove the amount of the charges billed and that the charges were reasonable, necessary and customary.  5. Documentary evidence transmitted from outside this State to a tribunal of this State by telephone, telecopier or other electronic means that do not provide an original record may not be excluded from evidence on an objection based on the means of transmission.  6. In a proceeding under this chapter, a tribunal of this State shall permit a party or witness residing outside this State to be deposed or to testify under penalty of perjury by telephone, audiovisual means or other electronic means at a designated tribunal or other location. A tribunal of this State shall cooperate with other tribunals in designating an appropriate location for the deposition or testimony.  7. In a civil proceeding under this chapter, if a party called to testify refuses to answer a question on the ground that the testimony may be self-incriminating, the trier of fact may draw an adverse inference from the refusal.  8. A privilege against the disclosure of communications between a married couple does not apply in a proceeding under this chapter.  9. The defense of immunity based on the relationship of a married couple or parent and child does not apply in a proceeding under this chapter.  10. A voluntary acknowledgment of paternity developed by the State Board of Health pursuant to NRS 440.283 or a voluntary acknowledgment of parentage developed by the State Board of Health pursuant to NRS 440.285, certified as a true copy, is admissible to establish parentage of the child.  (Added to NRS by 1997, 2320; A 2007, 128; 2009, 133; 2015, 892, 895; 2017, 249, 774)
NV Rev Stat § 130.317 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 130 - Interjurisdictional Enforcement of Support|NRS 130.317 - Communication between tribunals.

A tribunal of this State may communicate with a tribunal outside this State in a record, or by telephone, electronic mail or other means, to obtain information concerning the laws, the legal effect of a judgment, decree or order of that tribunal, and the status of a proceeding. A tribunal of this State may furnish similar information by similar means to a tribunal outside this State.  (Added to NRS by 1997, 2321; A 2007, 129; 2009, 134; 2015, 892, 895)
NV Rev Stat § 130.318 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 130 - Interjurisdictional Enforcement of Support|NRS 130.318 - Assistance with discovery.

A tribunal of this State may:  1. Request a tribunal outside this State to assist in obtaining discovery; and  2. Upon request, compel a person over which it has jurisdiction to respond to a discovery order issued by a tribunal outside this State.  (Added to NRS by 1997, 2321; A 2009, 134; 2015, 895)
NV Rev Stat § 130.319 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 130 - Interjurisdictional Enforcement of Support|NRS 130.319 - Receipt and disbursements of payments.

  1. A support-enforcement agency or tribunal of this State shall disburse promptly any amounts received pursuant to a support order, as directed by the order. The agency or tribunal shall furnish to a requesting party or tribunal of another state or a foreign country a certified statement by the custodian of the record of the amounts and dates of all payments received.  2. If neither the obligor, nor the obligee who is a natural person, nor the child resides in this State, upon request from a support-enforcement agency of this State or another state, a tribunal of this State shall:  (a) Direct that the support payment be made to the support-enforcement agency in the state in which the obligee is receiving services; and  (b) Issue and send to the employer of the obligor a conforming income-withholding order or an administrative notice of change of payee, reflecting the redirected payments.  3. A support-enforcement agency of this State receiving redirected payments from another state pursuant to a law similar to subsection 2 shall furnish to a requesting party or tribunal of the other state a certified statement by the custodian of the record of the amount and dates of all payments received.  (Added to NRS by 1997, 2321; A 2007, 129; 2009, 134; 2015, 895)
NV Rev Stat § 130.401 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 130 - Interjurisdictional Enforcement of Support|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.  (Added to NRS by 1997, 2321; A 2007, 129; 2009, 135; 2015, 895; 2017, 250)