IN RE: PETITION BY CLARK (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 docketing on January 3, 2025, the clerk issued a deficiency notice giving appellant 14 days to pay the fee or establish compliance with NRAP 24. Appellant neither cured the deficiency nor responded, and dismissal followed. The order is a clerk's order and addresses no substantive issue.

In plain language

This is a one-page housekeeping order from the Nevada Supreme Court. Alfred Clark filed an appeal but did not pay the filing fee that is normally required to start an appeal. He also did not file the paperwork that would let him proceed without paying the fee (a process governed by a court rule called NRAP 24, which covers permission to appeal "in forma pauperis," meaning as a person who cannot afford the fee). The court sent Clark a notice telling him he had 14 days to either pay the fee or show that he qualified to proceed without paying. The notice warned him that if he did neither, his appeal would be thrown out. According to the order, Clark did not pay and did not respond. The court therefore dismissed the appeal without ever reaching the merits of whatever child-custody issue Clark was trying to raise.