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NRS 130.0904 Uniformity of application and construction. In applying and construing the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act, consideration must be given to the need to promote uniformity of the law with respect to its subject matter among states that enact it. (Added to NRS by …

NRS 130.101 Definitions. As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, the words and terms defined in NRS 130.10103 to 130.10191, inclusive, have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections. (Added to NRS by 1997, 2311; A 2009, 124; 2015, 895)

NRS 130.10103 “Child” defined. “Child” means a natural person, whether over or under the age of majority, who is or is alleged to be owed a duty of support by his or her parent or who is or is alleged to be the beneficiary of a support order directed to the parent. (Added to NRS …

NRS 130.10107 “Child-support order” defined. “Child-support order” means a support order for a child, including a child who has attained the age of majority under the law of the issuing state or foreign country. (Added to NRS by 1997, 2311; A 2015, 890)

NRS 130.10109 “Convention” defined. “Convention” means the Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance, concluded at The Hague on November 23, 2007. (Added to NRS by 2009, 119; A 2015, 895)

NRS 130.10111 “Duty of support” defined. “Duty of support” means an obligation imposed or imposable by law to provide support for a child, spouse or former spouse, including an unsatisfied obligation to provide support. (Added to NRS by 1997, 2311)

NRS 130.10115 “Employer” defined. “Employer” includes, but is not limited to, any person or other entity required to withhold income pursuant to NRS 31A.010 to 31A.190, inclusive. (Added to NRS by 1997, 2311)

NRS 130.10116 “Foreign country” defined. “Foreign country” means a country, including a political subdivision thereof, other than the United States, which authorizes the issuance of support orders and: 1. Which has been declared under the law of the United States to be a foreign …

NRS 130.10117 “Foreign support order” defined. “Foreign support order” means a support order of a foreign tribunal. (Added to NRS by 2009, 119; A 2015, 895)

NRS 130.10118 “Foreign tribunal” defined. “Foreign tribunal” means a court, administrative agency or quasi-judicial entity of a foreign country which is authorized to establish, enforce or modify support orders or to determine parentage of a child. The term includes a competent a…

NRS 130.10119 “Home state” defined. “Home state” means the state or foreign country in which a child lived with a parent or a person acting as a parent for at least 6 consecutive months immediately preceding the time of filing a petition or comparable pleading for support and, if…

NRS 130.10123 “Income” defined. “Income” includes earnings or other periodic entitlements to money from any source and any other property subject to withholding for support under the law of this state. (Added to NRS by 1997, 2311)

NRS 130.10127 “Income-withholding order” defined. “Income-withholding order” means an order or other legal process directed to an obligor’s employer, as defined in NRS 130.10115, to withhold support from the income of the obligor. (Added to NRS by 1997, 2311; A 2015, 890)

NRS 130.10135 “Initiating tribunal” defined. “Initiating tribunal” means the tribunal of a state or foreign country from which a petition or comparable pleading is forwarded or in which a petition or comparable pleading is filed for forwarding to another state or foreign country.…

NRS 130.10137 “Issuing foreign country” defined. “Issuing foreign country” means the foreign country in which a tribunal issues a support order or a judgment determining parentage of a child. (Added to NRS by 2009, 119; A 2015, 895)

NRS 130.10139 “Issuing state” defined. “Issuing state” means a state in which a tribunal issues a support order or a judgment determining parentage of a child. (Added to NRS by 1997, 2312; A 2009, 125; 2015, 895)

NRS 130.10143 “Issuing tribunal” defined. “Issuing tribunal” means a tribunal of a state or foreign country that issues a support order or a judgment determining parentage of a child. (Added to NRS by 1997, 2312; A 2009, 125; 2015, 895)

NRS 130.10147 “Law” defined. “Law” includes decisional and statutory law and rules and regulations having the force of law. (Added to NRS by 1997, 2312)

NRS 130.10151 “Obligee” defined. “Obligee” means: 1. A natural person to whom a duty of support is or is alleged to be owed or in whose favor a support order or a judgment determining parentage of a child has been issued; 2. A foreign country, state or political subdivision of a …

NRS 130.10155 “Obligor” defined. “Obligor” means a natural person, or the estate of a decedent, that: 1. Owes or is alleged to owe a duty of support; 2. Is alleged but has not been adjudicated to be a parent of a child; 3. Is liable under a support order; or 4. Is a debtor in a p…

NRS 130.101555 “Outside this State” defined. “Outside this State” means a location in another state or a country other than the United States, whether or not the country is a foreign country. (Added to NRS by 2009, 119; A 2015, 895)

NRS 130.10156 “Person” defined. “Person” means a natural person, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited-liability company, association, joint venture, government or governmental subdivision, agency or instrumentality, public corporation or any other lega…

NRS 130.10158 “Record” defined. “Record” means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. (Added to NRS by 2007, 118)

NRS 130.10159 “Register” defined. “Register” means to file in a tribunal of this State a support order or judgment determining parentage of a child issued in another state or foreign country with the clerk of a district court of this State. (Added to NRS by 1997, 2312; A 2009, 12…

NRS 130.10163 “Registering tribunal” defined. “Registering tribunal” means a tribunal in which a support order or judgment determining parentage of a child is registered. (Added to NRS by 1997, 2312; A 2009, 125; 2015, 895)

NRS 130.10167 “Responding state” defined. “Responding state” means a state in which a petition or comparable pleading for support or to determine parentage of a child is filed or to which a petition or comparable pleading is forwarded for filing from another state or foreign coun…

NRS 130.10171 “Responding tribunal” defined. “Responding tribunal” means an authorized tribunal in a responding state or foreign country. (Added to NRS by 1997, 2312; A 2009, 125; 2015, 895)

NRS 130.10175 “Spousal-support order” defined. “Spousal-support order” means a support order for a spouse or former spouse of an obligor. (Added to NRS by 1997, 2312)

NRS 130.10179 “State” defined. “State” means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. The term includes an Indian nation or tribe.…

NRS 130.10183 “Support-enforcement agency” defined. “Support-enforcement agency” means a public official, governmental entity or private agency authorized to: 1. Seek enforcement of support orders or laws relating to the duty of support; 2. Seek establishment or modification of c…

NRS 130.10187 “Support order” defined. “Support order” means a judgment, decree, order, decision or directive, whether temporary, final or subject to modification, issued in a state or foreign country for the benefit of a child, spouse or former spouse, which provides for monetar…

NRS 130.10191 “Tribunal” defined. “Tribunal” means a court, administrative agency or quasi-judicial entity authorized to establish, enforce or modify support orders or to determine parentage of a child. (Added to NRS by 1997, 2313; A 2009, 126; 2015, 895)

NRS 130.102 Tribunals and support enforcement agencies of State. 1. The district court and, within the limitations of authority granted pursuant to NRS 3.405, 125.005 or 425.381 to 425.3852, inclusive, a judicial officer or referee appointed pursuant to any of those sections, are…

NRS 130.103 Remedies cumulative and not exclusive. 1. Remedies provided by this chapter are cumulative and do not affect the availability of remedies under other law or the recognition of a foreign support order on the basis of comity. 2. This chapter does not: (a) Provide the ex…

NRS 130.105 Applicability to support proceedings involving foreign orders, foreign tribunals or certain persons residing in foreign country; limitations. 1. A tribunal of this State shall apply this chapter to a support proceeding involving: (a) A foreign support order; (b) A for…

NRS 130.201 Bases for jurisdiction over nonresident. 1. In a proceeding to establish or enforce a support order or to determine parentage of a child, a tribunal of this State may exercise personal jurisdiction over a nonresident if: (a) The nonresident is personally served with a…

NRS 130.202 Continuation of personal jurisdiction. Personal jurisdiction acquired by a tribunal of this State in a proceeding under this chapter or other law of this State relating to a support order continues as long as a tribunal of this State has continuing and exclusive juris…

NRS 130.2025 Procedure when exercising jurisdiction over nonresident in proceeding relating to foreign support order. A tribunal of this State exercising personal jurisdiction over a nonresident in a proceeding under this chapter or under other law of this State relating to a sup…

NRS 130.203 Initiating and responding tribunal of State. Under this chapter, a tribunal of this state may serve as an initiating tribunal to forward proceedings to a tribunal of another state and as a responding tribunal for proceedings initiated in another state or foreign count…

NRS 130.204 Simultaneous proceedings in another state or foreign country. 1. A tribunal of this State may exercise jurisdiction to establish a support order if the petition or comparable pleading is filed after a petition or comparable pleading is filed in another state or a fore…

NRS 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…

NRS 130.2055 Continuing, exclusive jurisdiction over spousal-support order. 1. A tribunal of this State issuing a spousal-support order consistent with the law of this State has continuing and exclusive jurisdiction to modify the spousal-support order throughout the existence of …

NRS 130.206 Enforcement and modification of child-support order by tribunal having continuing jurisdiction. 1. A tribunal of this State that has issued a child-support order consistent with the law of this State may serve as an initiating tribunal to request a tribunal of another…

NRS 130.207 Recognition of controlling child-support order; determination of which order controls; request for determination; issuance of new controlling order. 1. If a proceeding is brought under this chapter and only one tribunal has issued a child-support order, the order of t…

NRS 130.208 Multiple child-support orders for two or more obligees. In responding to registrations or petitions for the enforcement of two or more child-support orders in effect at the same time with regard to the same obligor and different obligees who are natural persons, at le…

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…