ORS 110.592: Authority to issue support order.

(1) 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) 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) A 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 in ORS 109.070;

      (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 ORS 110.551.