VAILE v. PORSBOLL

Nos. 53687, 53798.

268 P.3d 1272 (2012)

Robert Scotlund VAILE, Appellant, v. Cisilie A. PORSBOLL, f/k/a Cisilie A. Vaile, Respondent. Cisilie A. Porsboll, f/k/a Cisilie A. Vaile, Appellant, v. Robert Scotlund Vaile, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

January 26, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Scotlund Vaile , Kenwood, CA, in Proper Person.

Willick Law Group and Marshal S. Willick , Las Vegas, for Cisilie A. Porsboll.

Catherine Cortez Masto , Attorney General, and Donald W. Winne, Jr. , Deputy Attorney General, Carson City, for Amicus Curiae State of Nevada, Division of Welfare and Supportive Services, Child Support Enforcement Program.

Before SAITTA, C.J., HARDESTY and PARRAGUIRRE, JJ.


OPINION

By the Court, HARDESTY, J.:

In these appeals, we address the district court's authority to enforce or modify a child support order that a Nevada district court initially entered, when neither the parties nor the children reside in Nevada. We conclude that, under the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act, because no other jurisdiction has entered an order concerning child support, the Nevada order controls and the district court retains subject...

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