1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 130.706, a support order or income-withholding order of another state or a foreign support order may be registered in this State by sending the following records to the appropriate tribunal of this State:
(a) A letter of transmittal requesting registration and enforcement;
(b) Two copies, including one certified copy, of the order to be registered, including any modification of the order;
(c) A sworn statement by the person requesting registration or a certified statement by the custodian of the records showing the amount of any arrearage;
(d) The name of the obligor and, if known:
(1) The address and social security number of the obligor;
(2) The name and address of the employer of the obligor and any other source of income of the obligor; and
(3) A description and the location of property of the obligor in this State that is not exempt from execution; and
(e) Except as otherwise provided in NRS 130.312, the name and address of the obligee and, if applicable, the person to whom support payments are to be remitted.
2. On receipt of a request for registration, the registering tribunal shall cause the order to be filed as an order of a tribunal of another state or a foreign support order, together with one copy of the documents and information, regardless of their form.
3. A petition or comparable pleading seeking a remedy that must be affirmatively sought under other law of this State may be filed at the same time as the request for registration or later. The pleading must specify the grounds for the remedy sought.
4. If two or more orders are in effect, the person requesting registration shall:
(a) Furnish to the tribunal a copy of every support order asserted to be in effect in addition to the documents specified in this section;
(b) Specify the order alleged to be the controlling order, if any; and
(c) Specify the amount of consolidated arrears, if any.
5. A request for a determination of which is the controlling order may be filed separately or with a request for registration and enforcement or for registration and modification. The person requesting registration shall give notice of the request to each party whose rights may be affected by the determination.
(Added to NRS by 1997, 2324; A 2007, 132; 2009, 136; 2015, 893, 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.