NRS130.6115. Modification of child-support order of foreign country. [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.  Except as otherwise provided in NRS 130.711, if a foreign country lacks or refuses to exercise jurisdiction to modify its child-support orders pursuant to its laws, a tribunal of this State may assume jurisdiction to modify the child-support order and bind all natural persons subject to the personal jurisdiction of the tribunal whether or not the consent to modification of a child-support order otherwise required of the natural person pursuant to NRS 130.611 has been given or whether the natural person seeking modification is a resident of this State or of the foreign country.

      2.  An order issued by a tribunal of this State modifying a foreign child-support order pursuant to this section is the controlling order.

      (Added to NRS by 2007, 118; A 2009, 140, 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)