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Okla. Stat. tit. 43, § 43-601-401: Petition to establish support order

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  2. Title 43

A. If a support order entitled to recognition under this act

has not been issued, a responding tribunal of this state, with

personal jurisdiction over the parties, may issue a support order

if:

1. The individual seeking the order resides outside this state;

or

2. The support enforcement agency seeking the order is located

outside this state.

B. 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:

1. A presumed father of the child;

2. Petitioning to have his paternity adjudicated;

3. Identified as the father of the child through genetic

testing;

4. An alleged father who has declined to submit to genetic

testing;

5. Shown by clear and convincing evidence to be the father of

the child;

6. An acknowledged father as provided by Section 1-311.3 of

Title 63 of the Oklahoma Statutes;

7. The mother of the child; or

8. An individual who has been ordered to pay child support in a

previous proceeding and the order has not been reversed or vacated.

C. 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 601-305 of this title.

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