Child Support Enforcement - Sarpy County Nebraska

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
issued a transfer order, a certified copy of which has been filed in the county court,
sitting as a juvenile court, or in the separate juvenile court.
in 2008, the Legislature enacted L.B. 280, which was intended to expand the
juvenile court’s jurisdiction to include custody determinations for juveniles whom the
court has adjudicated under § 43-247(3).
Under § 25-2740(3), the jurisdiction conferred on a county court to decide custody
issues clearly refers to a county court sitting as a juvenile court because the court
must have already obtained jurisdiction over the child. But § 25-2740(3) provides a
juvenile court with concurrent jurisdiction over a custody determination for an
adjudicated juvenile, not exclusive jurisdiction.
the juvenile court cannot acquire jurisdiction over a custody determination unless a
party has previously filed a complaint for a dissolution or a custody modification in
district court.
Nebraska v. Storz, 235 Neb. 368, 455 N.W.2d 182 (1990)
Child conceived after the divorce decree was signed but before the parents’ divorce
decree was final is a child of the marriage, and only the court which heard the
divorce has the jurisdiction to address issues relating to the support of the child.
Rozsnyai v. Svacek, 272 Neb. 567, 723 N.W.2d 329 (2006)
Pursuant to Neb. Rev. Stat. § 42-351 (Reissue 2004), full and complete general
jurisdiction over the entire marital relationship and all related matters is vested in the
county or district court in which a petition for dissolution of marriage is properly filed.
Neb. Rev. Stat. §42-349 (Reissue 2004) provides that in order to maintain an action
for divorce in Nebraska, one of the parties must have had “actual residence in this
state with a bona fide intention of making this state his or her permanent home for at
least one year prior to the filing of the complaint.”
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