Issuance of support order by tribunal with personal jurisdiction.

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 )