IN RE: GUARDIANSHIP OF R.O. (CHILD CUSTODY)

Key holdings

Practitioner summary

The Nevada Supreme Court dismissed the appeal under NRAP 3(a)(2) for failure to pay the requisite filing fee under NRAP 3(e). After docketing on October 23, 2024, the court issued a same-day notice giving appellant 14 days to pay the filing fee or demonstrate compliance with NRAP 24 (governing in forma pauperis proceedings). Appellant neither paid nor responded, prompting dismissal.

In plain language

This is a one-page clerk's order from the Nevada Supreme Court dismissing an appeal before the court ever reached the merits. When someone files an appeal, they generally must pay a filing fee or qualify for a waiver of that fee. Here, the appellant filed her appeal but did not pay the fee. The court sent the appellant a notice on the same day the appeal was docketed, telling her she had 14 days either to pay the fee or to show that she qualified for a fee waiver under the applicable appellate rule. The notice warned her that if she did neither, her appeal would be dismissed. According to the order, she did not respond at all. The court then dismissed the appeal. This order does not decide anything about the underlying guardianship dispute over the minor R.O. It addresses only the appellant's failure to satisfy a procedural prerequisite to having her appeal heard.