Nevada Code § 130.401

Issuance of support order by tribunal with personal jurisdiction
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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 or acknowledged parent
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 .

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