COOPER VS. STATE OF NEV. (FAMILY)

Key holdings

Practitioner summary

The clerk's order dismisses the appeal for failure to pay the filing fee or comply with NRAP 24, citing NRAP 3(e) (filing fee requirement) and NRAP 3(a)(2) (authority to dismiss for noncompliance). The court issued a 14-day cure notice on the date of docketing; appellant neither paid nor responded. No merits review was undertaken.

In plain language

When someone files an appeal in the Nevada Supreme Court, they generally must pay a filing fee or, if they cannot afford it, file paperwork asking the court to let them proceed without paying (this is called proceeding "in forma pauperis"). In this case, the appellant docketed his appeal but did not pay the filing fee. The court issued a notice the same day the appeal was docketed, telling the appellant he had 14 days either to pay the fee or to show that he qualified to proceed without paying under the court's rules. The notice warned that if he did neither, his appeal would be dismissed. The appellant did not pay the fee and did not respond to the notice. Because of that, the court dismissed the appeal. The order does not address the underlying merits of the family-division case.