Child Support Enforcement - Sarpy County Nebraska

[W]e construe the Nebraska Juvenile Code liberally to accomplish its purpose of
serving the best interests of the juveniles who fall within it. See In re Interest of
Gabriela H., 280 Neb. 284, 785 N.W.2d 843 (2010).
J & H Swine v. Hartington Concrete*, 12 Neb. App. 885, 687 N.W.2d 9 (2004)
Rule: Timing is everything. This case, if anything, may teach the necessity for patience.
For an appellate court to acquire jurisdiction of an appeal, there must be a final
order entered by the court from which the appeal is taken; conversely, an appellate
court is without jurisdiction to entertain appeals from nonfinal orders.
A notice of appeal filed before the trial court announced a “decision or final order”
within the meaning of Neb. Rev. Stat. § 25-1912(2) (Cum. Supp. 2002) in final
determination of an issue of costs cannot relate forward.
Lamb v. Lamb, 14 Neb. App. 337, 707 N.W.2d 423 (2005)
The Nebraska Child Custody Jurisdiction Act (UCCJA) does not confer subject
matter jurisdiction upon a Nebraska court to modify a child support order issued by
another state.
This case also includes a good discussion of the differences between UIFSA and the UCCJA
Molczyk v. Molczyk, 285 Neb. 96, ____ N.W.2d ____, (January 2013)
Jurisdiction, Jurisdiction. Who has the jurisdiction?
Under Neb. Rev. Stat. § 42-348 (Reissue 2008), a plaintiff can commence a marital
dissolution action in the district court of any county in which one of the parties
resides.
Under the doctrine of jurisdictional priority, when different state courts have
concurrent original jurisdiction over the same subject matter, basic principles of
judicial administration require that the first court to acquire jurisdiction should retain it
to the exclusion of another court. That is, a second court lacks jurisdiction over the
same matter involving the same parties.
An order of dismissal or dismissal by operation of law divests a court of jurisdiction
to take any further action in the matter.
In civil cases, a court of general jurisdiction has inherent power to vacate or modify
its own judgment at any time during the term in which the court issued it.
[W]e hold that a motion to reinstate a dismissed action, of which the opposing party
has notice, has jurisdictional priority over a later complaint filed in a different court
involving the same subject matter and the same parties.
Under Neb. Rev. Stat. § 25-2740(3) (Reissue 2008), the jurisdiction conferred on a
county court to decide custody issues refers to a county court sitting as a juvenile
court and provides the juvenile court with concurrent jurisdiction over a custody
determination for an adjudicated juvenile, not exclusive jurisdiction.
Under Neb. Rev. Stat. § 43-2,113(2) (Reissue 2008), if a juvenile court judge
consents to a transfer of a custody case and the district court transfers the case to
juvenile court, the case is “filed” with the county court, sitting as a juvenile court, or
the separate juvenile court when a certified copy of the district court’s transfer order
is filed in the juvenile court.
Juvenile courts do not acquire jurisdiction over a marital dissolution action or a
custody proceeding unless three conditions are met: (1) The juvenile court has
already acquired jurisdiction over the parties’ child; (2) the juvenile court judge
consented to transferring the case to juvenile court; and (3) the district court has
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