19-A M.R.S. §3051: Petition to establish support order

1. Responding tribunal may issue support order. If a support order entitled to recognition under this chapter has not been issued, a responding tribunal of this State with personal jurisdiction over the parties may issue a support order if:

A. The individual seeking the order resides outside this State; or

B. The support enforcement agency seeking the order is located outside this State.

2. Responding tribunal may issue temporary support order. A responding tribunal of this State may issue a temporary support order if the tribunal determines that such an order is appropriate and the individual ordered to pay is:

A. The presumed father of the child;

B. Petitioning to have his paternity of the child adjudicated;

C. Identified as the father of the child through genetic testing;

D. An alleged father of the child who has declined to submit to genetic testing;

E. Shown by clear and convincing evidence to be the father of the child;

F. An acknowledged parent of the child as provided in chapter 61, subchapter 3;

G. The mother of the child; or

H. An individual who has been ordered to pay child support to the child in a previous proceeding and the order has not been reversed or vacated.

3. Tribunal shall issue support order. Upon finding, after notice and opportunity to be heard, that an obligor owes a duty of support, the tribunal shall issue a support order directed to the obligor and may issue other orders pursuant to section 3005.