IN RE: PARENTAL RIGHTS AS TO D.C.P. (FAMILY)

Key holdings

Practitioner summary

The court dismissed the appeal under NRAP 3(a)(2) for failure to comply with the filing-fee requirement of NRAP 3(e). After the appeal was docketed without the requisite fee, the court issued a 14-day cure notice directing the appellant either to pay the fee or to demonstrate compliance with NRAP 24 (governing in forma pauperis proceedings). The appellant neither paid nor responded, and the court dismissed on that basis without reaching any substantive issue.

In plain language

This is a short administrative order, not a ruling on the merits of any underlying dispute over parental rights. 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 that fee (governed by a rule called NRAP 24). In this case, the appellant filed her appeal on September 17, 2024, but did not pay the filing fee. The court told her she had 14 days either to pay or to show she qualified for a fee waiver, and warned that if she did neither, her appeal would be thrown out. She did not respond. Because of that, the court dismissed the appeal. The court did not consider, and this order does not decide, anything about the parental-rights matter itself.