ANDERSON VS. MORALES (FAMILY)

Key holdings

Practitioner summary

The Nevada Supreme Court dismissed this appeal under NRAP 3(a)(2) for failure to pay the filing fee required by NRAP 3(e). After docketing on March 6, 2025, the clerk issued a 14-day notice to cure by paying the fee or demonstrating compliance with NRAP 24 (governing in forma pauperis procedures). Appellant did not respond, and the court dismissed accordingly. The order is administrative; it does not reach the merits.

In plain language

When someone files an appeal with the Nevada Supreme Court, they generally must pay a filing fee or, if they cannot afford it, follow a specific procedure to ask the court to waive the fee (that procedure is set out in a rule called NRAP 24). In this case, Travis Anderson filed an appeal in a family-law dispute involving Kerstin Morales but did not pay the filing fee when he docketed the appeal on March 6, 2025. The court sent him a notice the same day telling him he had 14 days either to pay the fee or to show that he had complied with the rule for proceeding without paying. The notice warned that if he did neither, his appeal would be dismissed. According to the order, Anderson did not pay the fee and did not otherwise respond. Because of that, the Nevada Supreme Court dismissed the appeal. The order does not address the underlying merits of the family-law dispute.