JENSEN VS. PLEDGER (FAMILY)

Key holdings

Practitioner summary

The Nevada Supreme Court dismissed this pro se appeal from a district court order modifying child support based on appellant's failure to comply with preliminary filing requirements. After issuing a January 2, 2026 notice setting deadlines for a transcript request form (or certificate of no transcript request) and a docketing statement, and a follow-up January 30, 2026 order extending the deadline to February 13, 2026 with an express warning that non-compliance could result in dismissal, the court found that appellant had failed to file the required documents. Treating the failure as abandonment of the appeal, the court dismissed. The order does not reach the merits of the child-support modification, applies no substantive standard of review, and cites no statutes or case law.

In plain language

This case never reached a decision on the merits. Ryan Michael Jensen filed an appeal, without an attorney, from a Clark County family court order that partially granted a request to modify child support in a case involving Devyn Nicol Pledger. When someone files an appeal in Nevada, the Supreme Court requires certain paperwork early in the process - including a "transcript request form" (telling the court whether a transcript of the lower-court proceedings is needed) or a "certificate of no transcript request," and a "docketing statement" (a form summarizing the case). On January 2, 2026, the court told Jensen to file these documents within set deadlines. He did not. On January 30, 2026, the court gave him another chance, with a new deadline of February 13, 2026, and warned that missing the deadline could result in dismissal. He still did not file the documents. Concluding that Jensen had abandoned his appeal, the Nevada Supreme Court dismissed it. The underlying child-support order remains in place; the court did not review whether that order was right or wrong.