Legal Question in Family Law in Nevada
non custodial parent will not return calls after 17 year old daughter ran away (not the first time). Previously non custodial parent left daughter with daughter's friends for a month of the summer visistation and would not provide an address or phone number for where daughter was. Daughter came home tattooed and pierced without consent or knowlege of custodial parent. The younger daughter was fed marijuana laced food by non custodial parent's acqaintance. Non custodial parent is on paroll for 2 felony assault convictions in the state of California. Non custodial parent also is not ordered to pay child support as she is on welfare in the state of California. Custodial parent and case were in Nevada. What can we do to modify visitation?
1 Answer from Attorneys
Not enough procedural facts. "What" can be done is filing a motion to terminate or tightly restrict visitation. "Whee" has to do with who went where when, and what orders were entered by what court where. Short version -- if orders are from CA, you and child left CA and came here, CA probably still has exclusive modification jurisdiction. If she left here an NV entered earlier orders, NV has jurisdiction.
For an explanation as to jurisdiction, see the article titled "The Basics of Family Law Jurisdiction," on the Published Works page of our firm web site, at http://www.willicklawgroup.com/published_works. For details on substance, see the Child Custody (http://www.willicklawgroup.com/child_custody_visitation) and Child Support (http://www.willicklawgroup.com/child_support) pages of the web site.
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