40-5-1042: Establishment of support order.

(1) If a support order entitled to recognition under this part 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) The tribunal may issue a temporary child 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 adjudicated;

(c) identified as the father of the child through genetic testing;

(d) an alleged father 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 father as provided by applicable state law;

(g) the mother of the child; or

(h) an individual who has been ordered to pay child support in a previous proceeding and the order has not been reversed or vacated.

(3) 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 40-5-1025.