IN RE: PARENTAL RIGHTS AS TO E.L.A. (FAMILY)

Key holdings

Practitioner summary

The Clerk's order dismisses the appeal for failure to comply with the filing-fee requirements of NRAP 3(e) and the court's docketing notice. After docketing on February 24, 2026 without payment, the court issued a 14-day notice directing appellant to pay the filing fee or demonstrate compliance with NRAP 24 (in forma pauperis procedure). Appellant neither paid nor responded. The court dismissed the appeal pursuant to NRAP 3(a)(2).

In plain language

A party identified as Mandi B. filed an appeal with the Nevada Supreme Court in a case involving parental rights to a minor child, E.L.A. When someone files an appeal, the court typically requires a filing fee, or, alternatively, paperwork showing the person cannot afford the fee and qualifies to proceed without paying it (the procedure governed by NRAP 24, the rule for proceeding "in forma pauperis"). According to the order, Mandi B. did not pay the filing fee when the appeal was docketed on February 24, 2026. That same day, the Supreme Court sent a notice giving her 14 days either to pay the fee or to show she qualified to proceed without paying. The notice told her that if she did neither, her appeal would be dismissed. The order states that, as of the date of dismissal, Mandi B. had not paid the fee and had not responded to the court's notice. Because of that, the Supreme Court dismissed the appeal. The opinion does not address the underlying merits of the parental-rights matter.