1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, a tribunal of this State shall recognize and enforce a registered Convention support order.
2. The following grounds are the only grounds on which a tribunal of this State may refuse recognition and enforcement of a registered Convention support order:
(a) Recognition and enforcement of the order is manifestly incompatible with public policy, including the failure of the issuing tribunal to observe minimum standards of due process, which include notice and an opportunity to be heard;
(b) The issuing tribunal lacked personal jurisdiction consistent with NRS 130.201;
(c) The order is not enforceable in the issuing country;
(d) The order was obtained by fraud in connection with a matter of procedure;
(e) A record transmitted in accordance with NRS 130.706 lacks authenticity or integrity;
(f) A proceeding between the same parties and having the same purpose is pending before a tribunal of this State and that proceeding was the first to be filed;
(g) The order is incompatible with a more recent support order involving the same parties and having the same purpose if the more recent support order is entitled to recognition and enforcement under this chapter in this State;
(h) Payment, to the extent alleged arrears have been paid in whole or in part;
(i) In a case in which the respondent neither appeared nor was represented in the proceeding in the issuing foreign country:
(1) If the law of that country provides for prior notice of proceedings, the respondent did not have proper notice of the proceedings and an opportunity to be heard; or
(2) If the law of that country does not provide for prior notice of the proceedings, the respondent did not have proper notice of the order and an opportunity to be heard in a challenge or appeal on fact or law before a tribunal; or
(j) The order was made in violation of NRS 130.711.
3. If a tribunal of this State does not recognize a Convention support order under paragraphs (b), (d), (f) or (i) of subsection 2:
(a) The tribunal may not dismiss the proceeding without allowing a reasonable time for a party to request the establishment of a new Convention support order; and
(b) The governmental entity identified pursuant to NRS 130.703 shall take all appropriate measures to request a child-support order for the obligee if the application for recognition and enforcement was received under NRS 130.704.
(Added to NRS by 2009, 122; A 2015, 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.