MORGAN VS. AKBAR (FAMILY)

Key holdings

Practitioner summary

This is an unpublished order dismissing a pro se appeal from a district court order denying a motion to modify child support. The dismissal is procedural, not substantive. After reinstating briefing on December 10, 2025, the court directed appellant to file a transcript request form or certificate of no transcript request and a docketing statement by December 17, 2025. When appellant did not comply, the court issued a second order on December 23, 2025, setting a new deadline of December 30, 2025, and cautioning that noncompliance could result in dismissal. Appellant filed neither document. Treating the failure as abandonment of the appeal, the court dismissed. The order does not reach any issue concerning child support modification, and does not cite any statute, rule, or prior case.

In plain language

Jacob Morgan, representing himself, asked a Clark County family court to lower his child support obligation. The district court said no. He appealed that denial to the Nevada Supreme Court. To move an appeal forward in Nevada, the person appealing has to file certain paperwork - including a form telling the court whether transcripts of the lower-court hearings will be ordered, and a "docketing statement" that gives the Supreme Court basic information about the case. On December 10, 2025, the Supreme Court reinstated briefing in Mr. Morgan's appeal and gave him until December 17, 2025, to file those documents. He did not. The court then issued a second order on December 23, 2025, giving him a new deadline of December 30, 2025, and warning him that if he missed it the appeal could be thrown out. He missed that deadline too. Because Mr. Morgan did not file the required documents, the Supreme Court concluded he had abandoned the appeal and dismissed it. The dismissal does not address the merits of his request to modify child support.