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16 results for “NRS 125B.080(9)(i)”
SCOTT VS. SCOTT (CHILD SUPPORT)
Dec 6, 1991107 Nev. 837, 822 P.2d 654 (1991) · 21511 · Nevada Supreme Court
Remanded for determination of (1) the overtime to be included in the payor's gross income under NRS 125B.070; (2) the continued support for the handicapped child under NRS 125B.110; and (3) calculation of eighteen percent of the payor's gross income to support the handicapped child upon the younger child's majority.A child support award may be modified in accordance with the statutory formula regardless of a change of circumstances. Parkinson v. Parkinson, 106 Nev. 481, 483 n.1, 796 P.2d 229, 231 n.1 (1990) (citing NRS…
WALLACE VS. WALLACE (CHILD CUSTODY)
Aug 16, 1996112 Nev. 1015, 922 P.2d 541 (1996) · 28145 · Nevada Supreme Court
Reversed and remanded for proper determination of the visitation schedule, child support during summer visitation, and grandparent visitation.By the Court, Rose, J. (Steffen, C.J., Young and Shearing, JJ., concurring). The court reversed and remanded a post-divorce order that set a long-distance visitation schedule, abated child support, and granted…
MILLER VS. MILLER
Mar 15, 2018134 Nev. Adv. Op. 16, 412 P.3d 1081 (2018) · 69353 · Nevada Supreme Court
Reversed and remanded with instructions.Standard of review: Statutory construction is reviewed de novo. City of Reno v. Reno Gazette-Journal, 119 Nev. 55, 58, 63 P.3d 1147, 1148 (2003). A district court's child support determination is reviewed for abuse of…
GARRETT VS. GARRETT (CHILD SUPPORT)
Jul 27, 1995111 Nev. 972, 899 P.2d 1112 (1995) · 24915 · Nevada Supreme Court
Affirmed. The family court's child support judgment was affirmed.By the Court, Springer, J. (Steffen, C.J., and Young, J., concurring). The court affirmed a child support award, construing the interplay of the NRS 125B.070 formula cap and the NRS 125B.080(6) deviation authority.…
WESTGATE VS. WESTGATE (CHILD SUPPORT)
Dec 22, 1994110 Nev. 1377, 887 P.2d 737 (1994) · 24370 · Nevada Supreme Court
Reversed and remanded with instructions.Child support is governed by NRS 125B.080, which requires application of the NRS 125B.070 guidelines to any post-July 1, 1987 support request (18% of income for one child, up to the statutory cap), with only limited…
RODGERS VS. RODGERS (CHILD SUPPORT)
Dec 22, 1994110 Nev. 1370, 887 P.2d 269 (1994) · 23390 · Nevada Supreme Court
Reversed and remanded for entry of appropriate findings on the child support obligation.The court applied ordinary statutory construction - plain meaning unless it violates the act's spirit, no language rendered nugatory (McKay v. Bd. of Supervisors, 102 Nev. 644, 648, 730 P.2d 438, 441 (1986); Paramount…
JACKSON VS. JACKSON (CHILD SUPPORT)
Dec 19, 1995111 Nev. 1551, 907 P.2d 990 (1995) · 27153 · Nevada Supreme Court
Order vacated and remanded for either written findings of fact justifying a deviation from the statutory formula or a redetermination of the amount of child support.Per Curiam. The court vacated and remanded a child support modification, resolving a jurisdictional challenge, a findings requirement, and a question of first impression regarding a cohabitant's contributions.…
KHALDY VS. KHALDY (CHILD SUPPORT)
Mar 30, 1995111 Nev. 374, 892 P.2d 584 (1995) · 25997 · Nevada Supreme Court
Reversed in part and remanded. The judgment as to the mother's child support obligation was reversed and the case remanded for a child support award conforming to the statutory guidelines.Per Curiam. The court reversed a child support award and remanded for an award conforming to the statutory guidelines, holding the district court improperly deviated on purely equitable grounds and effected an improper…
ANASTASSATOS VS. ANASTASSATOS (CHILD SUPPORT)
Apr 3, 1996112 Nev. 317; 913 P.2d 652 · 27560 · Nevada Supreme Court
Affirmed in part and reversed in part: the judgment as to child support abatement, sharing of transportation costs, and the change to the support due date is reversed; the commencement date of the increased support is affirmed.The court affirmed in part and reversed in part a child support modification order. On the jurisdictional/due process issue, the court held that although Nevada is a notice-pleading jurisdiction, a party must be given…
Fernandez v. Fernandez
Feb 4, 2010126 Nev. 28, 222 P.3d 1031 (2010) · 51423 · Nevada Supreme Court
Reversed and remanded.The question presented was "whether parents can, by stipulation, eliminate or abridge a trial court's statutory authority to review and modify a child support order." The court answered no, holding that a stipulated…
LOVE VS. LOVE (PATERNITY)
May 19, 1998114 Nev. 572, 959 P.2d 523 (1998) · 29729 · Nevada Supreme Court
Reversed and remanded (the order resolving the paternity complaint and the attorney's fees award reversed; increased child support and private tuition left in place pending the district court's further decisions on remand).A divorce decree establishing paternity is generally res judicata and precludes relitigation between the parties. Harris v. Harris, 95 Nev. 214, 217, 591 P.2d 1147, 1148-49 (1979). However, res judicata does not bar…
HOOVER VS. HOOVER (CHILD SUPPORT)
Jun 28, 1990106 Nev. 388, 793 P.2d 1329 (1990) · 20302 · Nevada Supreme Court
Affirmed. (Springer, J.; Young, C.J., Steffen, Mowbray, and Rose, JJ., concurring.)The court affirmed the district court's application of the child support formula. Under NRS 125B.070(2)(b), the statutory obligation for two children is 25 percent of the obligor's gross monthly income, and the district…
EDGINGTON VS. EDGINGTON (CHILD SUPPORT)
Dec 30, 2003119 Nev. 577, 80 P.3d 1282 (2003) · 38880 · Nevada Supreme Court
Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded. The court reversed the rulings on the handicapped child support statute and attorney fees and remanded, and affirmed the denial of the motion to increase the child support amount.The primary issue was the meaning of 'handicapped' under NRS 125B.110, Nevada's handicapped child support statute. The court held a child is 'handicapped' if he or she is unable to be self-supporting because of a…
Major v. State
Aug 28, 2014130 Nev. Adv. Op. 70 (2014) · 62819 · Nevada Supreme Court
Affirmed.This appeal presented an issue of first impression in Nevada: whether a district court has jurisdiction to impose restitution to the State for the cost of child care in a child abuse case where a family court has…
Rivero v. Rivero
Oct 30, 2008125 Nev. 410, 216 P.3d 213 (2009) · 46915 · Nevada Supreme Court
Reversed and remanded in part (custody determination and child support); affirmed in part (the district court's orders regarding the recusal, disqualification, and attorney fees).Standards of review: custody decisions, including visitation schedules, are reviewed for abuse of discretion (Wallace v. Wallace, 112 Nev. 1015, 1019, 922 P.2d 541, 543 (1996)); factual findings must be supported by…
LEWIS VS. LEWIS (CHILD CUSTODY)
Jun 30, 2016132 Nev. Adv. Op. 46 (2016) · 66497 · Nevada Supreme Court
Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded.Standard of review: Contempt orders are normally reviewed for abuse of discretion, In re Water Rights of the Humboldt River, 118 Nev. 901, 907, 59 P.3d 1226, 1230 (2002), but constitutional issues are reviewed de novo,…
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