NRS130.401. Issuance of support order by tribunal with personal jurisdiction. [Effective on the date that the provisions of The Hague Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance is ratified by the President and the United States deposits its instrument of ratification.]

      1.  If a support order entitled to recognition under this chapter has not been issued, a responding tribunal of this State with personal jurisdiction over the parties may issue a support order if:

      (a) The natural person seeking the order resides outside this State; or

      (b) The support-enforcement agency seeking the order is located outside this State.

      2.  The tribunal may issue a temporary child-support order if the tribunal determines that such an order is appropriate and the natural person ordered to pay is:

      (a) A presumed father of the child under subsection 1 of NRS 126.051;

      (b) Petitioning to have his paternity adjudicated;

      (c) Identified as the father of the child through genetic testing;

      (d) An alleged father who has declined to submit to genetic testing;

      (e) Shown by clear and convincing evidence to be the father of the child;

      (f) An acknowledged father as provided by NRS 126.053;

      (g) The mother of the child; or

      (h) A natural person who has been ordered to pay child support in a previous proceeding and the order has not been reversed or vacated.

      3.  Upon finding, after notice and opportunity to be heard, that an obligor owes a duty of support, the tribunal shall issue a support order directed to the obligor and may issue other orders pursuant to NRS 130.305.

      (Added to NRS by 1997, 2321; A 2007, 129; 2009, 135, effective on the date that the provisions of The Hague Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance is ratified by the President and the United States deposits its instrument of ratification)