JOHNSON VS. ISAACS (CHILD CUSTODY)
22-40580 · 85730 · Nevada (SCOTN/COA) · December 27, 2022
Disposition:Appeal dismissed.Custody & RelocationPosture Shaquawn D.R. Johnson docketed an appeal in a child custody matter against Robin Isaacs on December 5, 2022, without paying the required filing fee. The Nevada Supreme Court issued a notice the same day directing the appellant to pay the fee or demonstrate compliance with NRAP 24 within 14 days, warning that noncompliance would result in dismissal.
Key holdings
Practitioner summary
The court dismissed the appeal under NRAP 3(a)(2) for failure to pay the filing fee required by NRAP 3(e) or, in the alternative, to demonstrate compliance with NRAP 24. The court issued a 14-day notice to cure on the day the appeal was docketed; the appellant neither paid nor responded. The order is a clerk's order of dismissal and does not reach the merits of the underlying child custody dispute.
In plain language
This is a one-page administrative order, not a ruling on the merits of any custody dispute. When someone files an appeal in the Nevada Supreme Court, they generally have to pay a filing fee. If they cannot afford it, they can ask the court for permission to proceed without paying by following a specific rule (NRAP 24, which governs proceeding "in forma pauperis"). Here, the appellant, Shaquawn D.R. Johnson, filed an appeal but did not pay the fee. The court sent a notice giving him 14 days to either pay or show that he qualified to proceed without paying. He did neither and did not respond at all. Because of that, the court dismissed the appeal. The order does not address the underlying child custody issues between Johnson and Robin Isaacs.
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