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Nevada · Through 2025 session (NRS as revised 2026-08-25) · Newer source version available

NRS 31A.050: Hearing to contest withholding; grounds; exceptions.

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  1. TITLE 3 — REMEDIES; SPECIAL ACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS
  2. CHAPTER 31A - ENFORCEMENT OF OBLIGATIONS FOR SUPPORT OF CHILDREN
  3. WITHHOLDING OF INCOME

1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2:

(a) If an obligor, within 15 days after a notice of withholding is mailed to the obligor pursuant to NRS 31A.040, requests a hearing to contest the withholding, the enforcing authority shall apply for a hearing before the court.

(b) The obligor may contest the withholding on the following grounds:

(1) The court which issued the order for support lacked personal jurisdiction over the obligor;

(2) There is a mistake of fact as to:

(I) Whether the obligor has been delinquent in the payment of support;

(II) The amount of the arrearages or support; or

(III) The custody of the child; or

(3) The order of support was obtained by fraud.

Ê No other issues or defenses may be presented to or determined by the court.

2. The provisions of subsection 1:

(a) Are applicable only to an obligor against whom there is entered an order of a kind described in subsection 4 of NRS 31A.025.

(b) Do not apply to an obligor who requests a hearing pursuant to NRS 130.606 to contest the enforcement, through the withholding of income, of an order for support that is registered pursuant to chapter 130 of NRS.

Collected 2026-09-03T05:51:30Z. Source file · JSON

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