2013 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 130 - Interjurisdictional Enforcement of Support
NRS 130.201 - Bases for jurisdiction over nonresident. [Effective until 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. In a proceeding to establish or enforce a support order or to determine parentage, a tribunal of this State may exercise personal jurisdiction over a nonresident if:

(a) The nonresident is personally served with a summons or other notice of the proceeding within this State;

(b) The nonresident submits to the jurisdiction of this State by consent in a record, by entering a general appearance or by filing a responsive document having the effect of waiving any contest to personal jurisdiction;

(c) The nonresident resided with the child in this State;

(d) The nonresident resided in this State and provided prenatal expenses or support for the child;

(e) The child resides in this State as a result of the acts or directives of the nonresident;

(f) The nonresident engaged in sexual intercourse in this State, and the child may have been conceived by that act of intercourse; or

(g) There is any other basis consistent with the Constitution of this State and the Constitution of the United States for the exercise of personal jurisdiction.

2. The bases of personal jurisdiction set forth in subsection 1 or in any other law of this State may not be used to acquire personal jurisdiction for a tribunal of the State to modify a child support order of another state unless the requirements of NRS 130.611 or 130.6115 are met.

(Added to NRS by 1997, 2313; A 2007, 120)

NRS 130.201 Bases for jurisdiction over nonresident. [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. In a proceeding to establish or enforce a support order or to determine parentage of a child, a tribunal of this State may exercise personal jurisdiction over a nonresident if:

(a) The nonresident is personally served with a summons or other notice of the proceeding within this State;

(b) The nonresident submits to the jurisdiction of this State by consent in a record, by entering a general appearance or by filing a responsive document having the effect of waiving any contest to personal jurisdiction;

(c) The nonresident resided with the child in this State;

(d) The nonresident resided in this State and provided prenatal expenses or support for the child;

(e) The child resides in this State as a result of the acts or directives of the nonresident;

(f) The nonresident engaged in sexual intercourse in this State, and the child may have been conceived by that act of intercourse; or

(g) There is any other basis consistent with the Constitution of this State and the Constitution of the United States for the exercise of personal jurisdiction.

2. The bases of personal jurisdiction set forth in subsection 1 or in any other law of this State may not be used to acquire personal jurisdiction for a tribunal of this State to modify a child support order of another state unless the requirements of NRS 130.611 are met or, in the case of a foreign support order, unless the requirements of NRS 130.6115 are met.

(Added to NRS by 1997, 2313; A 2007, 120; 2009, 127, 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)