HANSEN VS. HANSEN (CHILD CUSTODY)

Key holdings

Practitioner summary

The court dismissed the appeal under NRAP 3(a)(2) for failure to comply with NRAP 3(e)'s filing fee requirement. After the appeal was docketed without the requisite filing fee, the court issued a 14-day notice requiring payment or compliance with NRAP 24 (governing in forma pauperis proceedings). Appellant neither paid nor responded, and dismissal followed. The order does not address the merits of the underlying child custody dispute.

In plain language

When someone files an appeal with the Nevada Supreme Court, they generally must pay a filing fee. If they cannot afford it, there is a separate procedure (governed by a court rule called NRAP 24) for asking to proceed without paying. In this case, Irina Hansen filed an appeal in a child custody dispute against Donovan Hansen but did not pay the filing fee when the appeal was docketed on April 15, 2025. The court sent her a notice the same day giving her 14 days either to pay the fee or to follow the NRAP 24 procedure for proceeding without paying. The notice warned that if she did neither, the appeal would be dismissed. She did not pay and did not respond. The Supreme Court therefore dismissed the appeal without reaching any of the underlying child custody issues.