Applicability to support proceedings involving foreign orders, foreign tribunals or certain persons residing in foreign country; limitations.

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  2. Nevada Revised Statutes
  3. Interjurisdictional Enforcement of Support
  4. Applicability to support proceedings involving foreign orders, foreign tribunals or certain persons residing in foreign country; limitations.

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1. A tribunal of this State shall apply this chapter to a support proceeding involving:

(a) A foreign support order;

(b) A foreign tribunal; or

(c) An obligee, obligor or child residing in a foreign country.

2. A tribunal of this State that is requested to recognize and enforce a support order on the basis of comity may apply the procedural and substantive provisions of this chapter.

3. NRS 130.7011 to 130.713, inclusive, apply only to a support proceeding under the Convention. In such a proceeding, if a provision of NRS 130.7011 to 130.713, inclusive, is inconsistent with any other provision of this chapter, NRS 130.7011 to 130.713, inclusive, control.

(Added to NRS by 2009, 119; A 2015, 895)


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