42-729. Special rules of evidence and procedure.
(a) The physical presence of a nonresident party who is an individual 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.
(b) 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 if given in person, is admissible in evidence if given under penalty of perjury by a party or witness residing outside this state.
(c) 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 in it, and is admissible to show whether payments were made.
(d) 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 ten days before trial, are admissible in evidence to prove the amount of the charges billed and that the charges were reasonable, necessary, and customary.
(e) 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 shall not be excluded from evidence on an objection based on the means of transmission.
(f) In a proceeding under the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act, 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.
(g) If a party called to testify at a civil hearing refuses to answer on the ground that the testimony may be self-incriminating, the trier of fact may draw an adverse inference from the refusal.
(h) A privilege against disclosure of communications between spouses does not apply in a proceeding under the act.
(i) The defense of immunity based on the relationship of husband and wife or parent and child does not apply in a proceeding under the act.
(j) A voluntary acknowledgment of paternity, certified as a true copy, is admissible to establish parentage of the child.
Source
Structure Nebraska Revised Statutes
Chapter 42 - Households and Families
42-101 - Marriage a civil contract.
42-102 - Minimum age; affliction with venereal disease, disqualification.
42-103 - Marriages; when void.
42-104 - Solemnization; license; application; requirements.
42-105 - Marriage of minor; conditions upon which a license may be issued.
42-106 - License issued by county clerk; contents; marriage record; forms.
42-107 - License; issuance prohibited, when.
42-108 - Marriage ceremony; who may perform; return; contents.
42-109 - Ceremony; requirements.
42-110 - Marriage certificate; provided to parties; form.
42-114 - Want of jurisdiction; marriage not void, when.
42-116 - Marriage certificate and record as evidence.
42-117 - Marriage contracted out of state; when valid.
42-118 - Marriages; when voidable.
42-201 - Wife's separate property; not available for husband or his debts; exception.
42-202 - Married woman; capacity to contract; same as married man.
42-203 - Married woman; capacity to carry on business; earnings.
42-204 - Married woman; marriage solemnized out of state; property rights.
42-205 - Sections, how construed.
42-206 - Debts of wife contracted before marriage; husband not liable.
42-207 - Married woman; not bound by covenant in joint deed.
42-341 - Decree of another jurisdiction; no force or effect; when.
42-342 - Residence; prima facie evidence.
42-343 - Sections, how construed.
42-345 - Decree of divorce; prior to August 27, 1951; validity.
42-346 - Decree of divorce; validity.
42-348 - Proceedings; where brought; transfer of proceedings; orders; how treated.
42-349 - Dissolution; action; conditions.
42-350 - Legal separation; amendment of pleadings; when.
42-351 - County or district court; jurisdiction.
42-352 - Proceedings; complaint; filing; service.
42-355 - Defendant; proper service or appearance.
42-357 - Temporary and ex parte orders; violation; penalty.
42-358.01 - Delinquent support order payments; records.
42-358.03 - Permanent child support payments; failure to pay; work release program.
42-358.04 - Delinquent permanent child support payments; remarriage; effect.
42-358.05 - Child or spousal support; performance of decree; court powers.
42-358.06 - Delinquent permanent child or spousal support payments; lien.
42-358.07 - Clerk of the district court; nonperformance of duties; removal from office.
42-358.08 - Information regarding absent parent; duty to furnish; enforcement.
42-359 - Applications for spousal support or alimony; financial statements.
42-360 - Reconciliation; transfer of action; when; counseling; costs.
42-361 - Marriage irretrievably broken; findings; decree issued without hearing; when.
42-361.01 - Legal separation; findings.
42-362 - Spouse mentally ill; guardian ad litem; attorney; appointment; order for support.
42-364.01 - Child support; withholding of earnings; court; powers.
42-364.02 - Child support; withholding of earnings; application; who may file.
42-364.03 - Child support; withholding of earnings; hearing notice; interrogatories.
42-364.04 - Child support; withholding of earnings; service of documents.
42-364.05 - Child support; withholding of earnings; court; jurisdiction.
42-364.06 - Child support; withholding of earnings; court order.
42-364.07 - Child support; withholding of earnings; attorney's fee.
42-364.08 - Child support; withholding of earnings; limitations.
42-364.09 - Child support; withholding of earnings; priority.
42-364.11 - Child support; withholding of earnings; terms, defined.
42-364.13 - Support order; requirements.
42-364.14 - Parent-employee; consent to withholding of earnings; procedure.
42-364.15 - Enforcement of parenting time, visitation, or other access orders; procedure; costs.
42-364.16 - Child support guidelines; establishment; use.
42-364.18 - Individuals with disabilities; legislative findings.
42-365 - Decree; alimony; division of property; criteria; modification; revocation; termination.
42-366 - Property settlements; effect; enforcement; modification.
42-367 - Temporary allowance; costs; payment.
42-368 - Decree of separation; support order; modification; revocation.
42-370 - Contempt proceedings; attorney's fees; costs.
42-372.01 - Decree; when final.
42-372.02 - Decree; assignment of real estate; affidavit and certificate; filing.
42-372.03 - Legal separation decree; application to set aside decree.
42-373 - Annulments; procedure.
42-374 - Annulment; conditions.
42-375 - Annulments; persons under disability; who may bring action; denial, when.
42-376 - Doubted marriage; procedure.
42-377 - Legitimacy of children.
42-378 - Nullity of marriage; procedure; costs.
42-380 - Restoration of former name; procedure.
42-381 - Minor child; rights of parents.
42-402 - Children; when deemed legitimate.
42-403 - Marriages and divorces; void, when unlawful.
42-404 - Marriages; how contracted.
42-405 - Divorces; how obtained.
42-406 - Bigamy; when; penalty.
42-407 - Marriages; record of county judge; legal and competent evidence.
42-408 - Sections, how construed.
42-501 - Mortgage; procedure for authorization; limitation.
42-502 - Complaint; verification; service; guardian ad litem; costs.
42-603 - Property acquired; presumption.
42-617 - Property acquired, definition.
42-618 - Receipt, management, control, and disposition of property.
42-619 - Claims; limitation; affidavit asserting ownership; filing and recording.
42-703 - Tribunal of this state; support enforcement agency.
42-704 - Remedies cumulative; applicability of act.
42-704.01 - Application of act to resident of foreign country and foreign support proceeding.
42-705 - Basis for jurisdiction over nonresident.
42-706 - Continuing personal jurisdiction.
42-707 - Initiating and responding tribunal of this state.
42-708 - Simultaneous proceedings.
42-709 - Continuing, exclusive jurisdiction.
42-710 - Enforcement of support order by tribunal having continuing jurisdiction.
42-711 - Recognition of controlling child support order.
42-712 - Child support orders for two or more obligees.
42-713 - Credits for payments.
42-713.01 - Application of act to nonresident subject to personal jurisdiction.
42-713.02 - Continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify spousal support order.
42-714 - Proceedings under the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act.
42-715 - Action by minor parent.
42-716 - Application of law of this state.
42-717 - Duties of initiating tribunal.
42-718 - Duties and powers of responding tribunal.
42-719 - Inappropriate tribunal.
42-720 - Duties of support enforcement agency.
42-721 - Attorney General; powers.
42-723 - Duties of state information agency.
42-724 - Pleadings and accompanying documents.
42-725 - Nondisclosure of information in exceptional circumstances.
42-727 - Limited immunity of petitioner.
42-728 - Nonparentage as defense.
42-729 - Special rules of evidence and procedure.
42-730 - Communications between tribunals.
42-731 - Assistance with discovery.
42-732 - Receipt and disbursement of payments.
42-733 - Establishment of support order.
42-733.01 - Proceeding to determine parentage.
42-734 - Employer's receipt of income withholding order of another state.
42-734.01 - Employer's compliance with income withholding order of another state.
42-734.02 - Compliance with two or more income withholding orders.
42-734.03 - Immunity from civil liability.
42-734.04 - Penalties for noncompliance.
42-734.05 - Contest by obligor.
42-735 - Administrative enforcement of orders.
42-736 - Registration of order for enforcement.
42-737 - Procedure to register order for enforcement.
42-738 - Effect of registration for enforcement.
42-740 - Notice of registration of order.
42-741 - Procedure to contest validity or enforcement of registered support order.
42-742 - Contest of registration or enforcement.
42-744 - Procedure to register child support order of another state for modification.
42-745 - Effect of registration for modification.
42-746 - Modification of child support order of another state.
42-747 - Recognition of order modified in another state; enforcement.
42-747.02 - Notice to issuing tribunal of modification.
42-747.03 - Jurisdiction to modify child support order of foreign country.
42-747.04 - Procedure to register child support order of foreign country for modification.
42-748.06 - Registration of Convention support order.
42-748.07 - Contest of registered Convention support order.
42-748.08 - Recognition and enforcement of registered Convention support order.
42-748.09 - Partial enforcement.
42-748.10 - Foreign support agreement.
42-748.11 - Modification of Convention child support order.
42-748.12 - Personal information; limit on use.
42-748.13 - Record in original language; English translation.
42-749 - Grounds for rendition.
42-750 - Conditions of rendition.
42-751 - Uniformity of application and construction.
42-751.01 - Transitional provision.
42-801 - Purposes of sections.
42-803 - Applicability of law.
42-804 - County court and district court; jurisdiction.
42-805 - Designation of judge.
42-807 - Acting judge; appointment.
42-810 - Hearings; conferences; files; confidentiality.
42-811 - Controversy between spouses; jurisdiction of court.
42-812 - Petition; filing; effect.
42-815 - Forms; furnished by county; petitions; complaints; refer to court.
42-817 - Petition; hearing; notice; citation; compel attendance of witnesses.
42-818 - Hearing; time; place; objection; effect.
42-820 - Hearing; orders; effect; reconciliation agreement.
42-823 - Application for proceedings; minor child not involved; jurisdiction.
42-904 - Department; programs and services; duties.
42-905 - Comprehensive support services; enumerated.
42-906 - Support services; to whom provided.
42-907 - Emergency services; enumerated.
42-908 - Department; victim; diagnostic assessment; referral; followup.
42-909 - Department; victim; provide support services; plan of action.
42-910 - Department; services for children; enumerated.
42-911 - Department; victims; provide resource information.
42-912 - Department; develop client feedback; collect statistical data.
42-913 - Department; person who commits domestic abuse; programs and services.
42-914 - Department; domestic violence; develop educational curriculum.
42-915 - Department; families; develop community support systems.
42-916 - Department; family program; prevent generational continuation of abuse.
42-917 - Delivery of services; cooperation; coordination of programs.
42-918 - Contact with victims of spouse abuse and families; confidentiality; violation; penalty.
42-919 - Programs; administered independent of welfare assistance programs.
42-920 - Department; contract for services.
42-921 - Department; power to accept gifts, grants, devises, and bequests; use.
42-922 - Department; adopt rules and regulations.
42-924.01 - Protection order; filed, issued, and served without payment of costs; when.
42-924.02 - Protection order; forms provided; State Court Administrator; duties.
42-924.03 - Protection order granted to respondent; when.
42-927 - Law enforcement agencies; education and training programs.
42-928 - Protection order; restraining order; violation; arrest, when.
42-929 - Arrest; peace officer; duties; conditions of release.
42-931 - Foreign protection order; enforcement.
42-934 - Judicial enforcement of order.
42-935 - Nonjudicial enforcement of order.
42-936 - Registration of order.
42-939 - Uniformity of application and construction.
42-940 - Applicability of act.
42-1007 - Enforcement; void marriage.
42-1008 - Limitation of actions.
42-1009 - Application and construction.
42-1011 - Time of taking effect.
42-1103 - Qualified domestic relations order; requirements.
42-1104 - Order; payment of benefits; alternate payee.
42-1105 - Order; form of benefit payment.
42-1106 - Death of alternate payee; effect.
42-1107 - Order; surviving spouse; payment option.
42-1108 - Order; alternate payee; file with board; notice.
42-1109 - Rules and regulations.
42-1110 - Qualified domestic relations order; how determined; procedure.
42-1111 - Director; separate accounting required; when; investment authority.
42-1112 - Order filed prior to July 19, 1996; applicability.
42-1205 - Certification; forfeiture or cancellation; when.
42-1206 - Address or substitute address; use; when.
42-1207 - Early voting; authorized.
42-1208 - Secretary of State; use of substitute address; exceptions.
42-1209 - Program participants; application assistance.
42-1210 - Rules and regulations.
42-1301 - Transferred to section 30-701.
42-1302 - Transferred to section 30-702.