Nevada's Child Support laws have changed.

Nevada Family Law Group's Senator Keith Pickard was the primary sponsor of a bill in 2017 to modernize Nevada's child support statutes. Federal law requires states to review and update their child support guidelines every four years. Because Nevada's guidelines had not been reviewed or updated after more than 20 years, Senator Pickard helped establish and sat on the Legislative Committee to Review Child Support Guidelines as an expert practitioner and legislator. The guidelines were modified by the Committee to better reflect what parents are expected to provide their children based upon their incomes. Some will pay more, some less, when it is time to recalculate their support. For more information on how Child Support is calculated in Nevada, go to our CHILD SUPPORT article.

Experience and Understanding Matters

The team at Nevada Family Law Group wrote the law establishing an equivalent duty for parents to support their children. Usually this equates to a fixed percentage of the parent’s gross income, between certain statutory minimums and maximums. In Nevada, a child support order is not dischargeable in bankruptcy and cannot be evaded by purposefully becoming unemployed or underemployed.

Nevada’s child support rules, also allow for regular adjustments in child support payments to account for changed circumstances. Either parent has the right to seek a review of their child support order once every three years, or any time if the income of the non-custodial parent changes by more than 20%.  (For more information, see our Article about child support here, or to read the law, click here.)

Holding an absentee parent accountable is sometimes necessary.

Sometimes, a parent believes they can shirk their responsibility and not pay child support.  In reality, a parent’s duty to support their children exists at the time of the child’s birth, and if they don’t pay, a court can require payment of support going back as far as four years.  At other times, a parent begins paying support and then simply stops.  In either case, the other parent who is shouldering the entire burden benefits from calling Nevada Family Law Group for help.