IN RE: PARENTAL RIGHTS AS TO: Z.K-M.C-H. (FAMILY)

Key holdings

Practitioner summary

This is a clerk's order of dismissal for failure to pay the filing fee. After a September 9, 2025 order directing appellants to pay the filing fee and warning that noncompliance would result in dismissal, appellants did not pay. The court dismissed the appeal on that basis. The order contains no merits analysis, no standard of review, and no doctrinal discussion. It does not cite any statute, rule, or case.

In plain language

This is a one-page clerk's order ending an appeal before it was ever decided on the merits. The case involves parental rights to a minor child, identified by initials to protect the child's privacy. Two appellants - Misha H. and Gregory M.C. - had filed an appeal with the Nevada Supreme Court. When someone files an appeal, they generally have to pay a filing fee. According to this order, the court told the appellants on September 9, 2025, that they needed to pay that fee, and warned them that if they did not, the appeal would be thrown out. The fee was not paid. As a result, the court dismissed the appeal without ruling on whether the underlying decision about parental rights was right or wrong. The order does not describe the lower-court ruling, the facts of the parental rights dispute, or any legal arguments. It is purely an administrative dismissal for nonpayment.