Nevada Revised Statutes 130.205 – Continuing, exclusive jurisdiction of tribunal that has issued child-support order; becoming initiating tribunal to request modification of child-support order
1. A tribunal of this State that has issued a child-support order consistent with the law of this State has and shall exercise continuing and exclusive jurisdiction to modify its child-support order if the order is the controlling order and:
Terms Used In Nevada Revised Statutes 130.205
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- person: means a natural person, any form of business or social organization and any other nongovernmental legal entity including, but not limited to, a corporation, partnership, association, trust or unincorporated organization. See Nevada Revised Statutes 0.039
(a) At the time of the filing of a request for modification, this State is the residence of the obligor, the obligee who is a natural person or the child for whose benefit the support order is issued; or
(b) Even if this State is not the residence of the obligor, the obligee who is a natural person or the child for whose benefit the support order is issued, the parties consent in a record or in open court that the tribunal of this State may continue to exercise jurisdiction to modify its order.
2. A tribunal of this State that has issued a child-support order consistent with the law of this State may not exercise continuing and exclusive jurisdiction to modify its child-support order if:
(a) All of the parties who are natural persons file consent in a record with the tribunal of this State that a tribunal of another state that has jurisdiction over at least one of the parties who is a natural person or that is located in the state of residence of the child may modify the order and assume continuing and exclusive jurisdiction; or
(b) Its order is not the controlling order.
3. If a tribunal of another state has issued a child-support order pursuant to the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act or a law substantially similar to that Act which modifies a child-support order of a tribunal of this State, tribunals of this State shall recognize the continuing and exclusive jurisdiction of the tribunal of the other state.
4. A tribunal of this State that lacks continuing and exclusive jurisdiction to modify a child-support order may serve as an initiating tribunal to request a tribunal of another state to modify a support order issued in that state.
5. A temporary support order issued ex parte or pending resolution of a jurisdictional conflict does not create continuing and exclusive jurisdiction in the issuing tribunal.