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)
Structure Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 130 - Interjurisdictional Enforcement of Support
NRS 130.025 - Jurisdiction by arrest.
NRS 130.0904 - Uniformity of application and construction.
NRS 130.10103 - "Child" defined.
NRS 130.10107 - "Child-support order" defined.
NRS 130.10109 - "Convention" defined.
NRS 130.10111 - "Duty of support" defined.
NRS 130.10115 - "Employer" defined.
NRS 130.10116 - "Foreign country" defined.
NRS 130.10117 - "Foreign support order" defined.
NRS 130.10118 - "Foreign tribunal" defined.
NRS 130.10119 - "Home state" defined.
NRS 130.10123 - "Income" defined.
NRS 130.10127 - "Income-withholding order" defined.
NRS 130.10135 - "Initiating tribunal" defined.
NRS 130.10137 - "Issuing foreign country" defined.
NRS 130.10139 - "Issuing state" defined.
NRS 130.10143 - "Issuing tribunal" defined.
NRS 130.10147 - "Law" defined.
NRS 130.10151 - "Obligee" defined.
NRS 130.10155 - "Obligor" defined.
NRS 130.101555 - "Outside this State" defined.
NRS 130.10156 - "Person" defined.
NRS 130.10158 - "Record" defined.
NRS 130.10159 - "Register" defined.
NRS 130.10163 - "Registering tribunal" defined.
NRS 130.10167 - "Responding state" defined.
NRS 130.10171 - "Responding tribunal" defined.
NRS 130.10175 - "Spousal-support order" defined.
NRS 130.10179 - "State" defined.
NRS 130.10183 - "Support-enforcement agency" defined.
NRS 130.10187 - "Support order" defined.
NRS 130.10191 - "Tribunal" defined.
NRS 130.102 - Tribunals and support enforcement agencies of State.
NRS 130.103 - Remedies cumulative and not exclusive.
NRS 130.201 - Bases for jurisdiction over nonresident.
NRS 130.202 - Continuation of personal jurisdiction.
NRS 130.203 - Initiating and responding tribunal of State.
NRS 130.204 - Simultaneous proceedings in another state or foreign country.
NRS 130.2055 - Continuing, exclusive jurisdiction over spousal-support order.
NRS 130.208 - Multiple child-support orders for two or more obligees.
NRS 130.209 - Credit for payments.
NRS 130.301 - Proceedings under act.
NRS 130.302 - Action by minor parent.
NRS 130.303 - Application of law of State.
NRS 130.304 - Duties of initiating tribunal.
NRS 130.305 - Duties and powers of responding tribunal.
NRS 130.306 - Inappropriate tribunal.
NRS 130.307 - Duties of support-enforcement agency.
NRS 130.308 - Duties of Attorney General.
NRS 130.309 - Private counsel.
NRS 130.310 - Duties of State Information Agency.
NRS 130.311 - Pleadings and accompanying documents.
NRS 130.312 - Nondisclosure of information in exceptional circumstances.
NRS 130.314 - Limited immunity of petitioner.
NRS 130.315 - Nonparentage as defense.
NRS 130.316 - Special rules of evidence and procedure.
NRS 130.317 - Communication between tribunals.
NRS 130.318 - Assistance with discovery.
NRS 130.319 - Receipt and disbursements of payments.
NRS 130.401 - Issuance of support order by tribunal with personal jurisdiction.
NRS 130.402 - Becoming responding tribunal in proceeding to determine parentage.
NRS 130.502 - Employer’s compliance with income-withholding order of another state.
NRS 130.503 - Employer’s compliance with multiple income-withholding orders.
NRS 130.504 - Immunity from civil liability.
NRS 130.505 - Penalties for noncompliance.
NRS 130.506 - Contest by obligor.
NRS 130.507 - Administrative enforcement of orders.
NRS 130.601 - Registration of orders issued in other jurisdictions.
NRS 130.602 - Procedure to register order for enforcement; exceptions.
NRS 130.603 - Effect of registration for enforcement.
NRS 130.604 - Choice of law; statute of limitation; prospective application of law.
NRS 130.605 - Notice of registration of order.
NRS 130.606 - Procedure to contest validity or enforcement of registered order.
NRS 130.607 - Contest of registration or enforcement.
NRS 130.608 - Confirmed order.
NRS 130.609 - Procedure to register child-support order of another state for modification.
NRS 130.610 - Effect of registration for modification.
NRS 130.6115 - Modification of child-support order of foreign country.
NRS 130.612 - Effect of order modified by tribunal of another state.
NRS 130.614 - Notice to issuing tribunal of modification.
NRS 130.7012 - "Application" defined.
NRS 130.7013 - "Central authority" defined.
NRS 130.7014 - "Convention support order" defined.
NRS 130.7015 - "Direct request" defined.
NRS 130.7016 - "Foreign central authority" defined.
NRS 130.7017 - "Foreign support agreement" defined.
NRS 130.7018 - "United States central authority" defined.
NRS 130.702 - Proceedings under Convention; limitations.
NRS 130.706 - Registration of Convention support order.
NRS 130.707 - Contest of registered Convention support order.
NRS 130.708 - Recognition and enforcement of registered Convention support order.
NRS 130.709 - Partial enforcement.
NRS 130.710 - Foreign support agreement.
NRS 130.711 - Modification of Convention child-support order.
NRS 130.712 - Personal information; limit on use.
NRS 130.713 - Record in original language; English translation.