LAITY VS. LAITY (FAMILY)

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 to demonstrate compliance with NRAP 24 (governing in forma pauperis proceedings) within the 14-day period set by the court's docketing notice. The order is administrative; the court did not reach any substantive issue.

In plain language

When someone files an appeal with the Nevada Supreme Court, they generally must pay a filing fee or, if they cannot afford it, follow a specific procedure to ask the court to waive the fee (that procedure is set out in a rule called NRAP 24). In this case, James Michael Laity filed an appeal in a family-law matter on December 30, 2024, but did not pay the filing fee. The same day the appeal was docketed, the court sent him a notice giving him 14 days to either pay the fee or show that he had followed the fee-waiver rule. The notice warned that if he did neither, his appeal would be dismissed. According to the court, he did not pay the fee and did not respond to the notice. The court therefore dismissed the appeal. This order does not address the merits of the underlying family-law dispute between the parties.