{"data":{"id":"us-ca/fam-5700.401","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"FAM § 5700.401","heading":"","body":"(a) 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:\n(1) the individual seeking the order resides outside this state; or\n(2) the support enforcement agency seeking the order is located outside this state.\n(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:\n(1) a presumed father of the child;\n(2) petitioning to have his paternity adjudicated;\n(3) identified as the father of the child through genetic testing;\n(4) an alleged father who has declined to submit to genetic testing;\n(5) shown by clear and convincing evidence to be the father of the child;\n(6) an acknowledged father as provided by applicable state law;\n(7) the mother of the child; or\n(8) an individual who has been ordered to pay child support in a previous proceeding and the order has not been reversed or vacated.\n(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 5700.305.","path":["Family Code - FAM","DIVISION 9. SUPPORT [3500. - 5700.905.]","PART 6. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act [5700.101. - 5700.905.]","CHAPTER 4. Establishment of Support Order or Determination of Parentage [5700.401. - 5700.402.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"83d6c59c33413f340a231de3636433dc03f9756c0acb3a6b8ed07c3ed606628f","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/fam-5700.319","next":"us-ca/fam-5700.402"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}