130.045 - Responding tribunals of State: Prohibition against staying proceedings or refusing hearings under certain circumstances; duties and powers. - Nevada Statutes

130.045  Responding tribunals of State: Prohibition against staying proceedings or refusing hearings under certain circumstances; duties and powers.  Except as otherwise required by the provisions of this chapter, a responding tribunal of this state:

      1.  Shall not stay a proceeding or refuse a hearing pursuant to this chapter because of any pending or prior action or proceeding for divorce, separation, annulment, dissolution, habeas corpus, adoption or custody in this or any other state.

      2.  Shall hold a hearing pursuant to this chapter and may issue a support order pendente lite and, in aid thereof, require the obligor to give a bond for the prompt prosecution of the pending proceeding.

      (Added to NRS by 1999, 170)