{"data":{"id":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-19-11-140","jurisdiction":"us-ga","citation":"O.C.G.A. § 19-11-140","heading":"Authority of tribunal upon failure to issue support order; temporary child support order.","body":"(a) If a support order entitled to recognition under this article 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 or the law of a foreign country;\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 Code Section 19-11-124.","path":["TITLE 19 Domestic Relations","CHAPTER 11 Enforcement of Duty of Support","Article 3 Uniform Interstate Family Support Act","PART 4 Establishment of Support Order"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ga.ocga.2018/release86.2022.11/gov.ga.ocga.title.19.odt","current_through":"Release 86 (2022-11)","vintage":"Public.Resource.Org bulk O.C.G.A., Release 86 (2022-11), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T19:34:57Z","sha256":"d51efa15003a7faa4078f5809a9a6fa8c99c40ce404a85f7943b3de98bd1171e","source_id":"us-ga","stale":false,"prev":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-19-11-138","next":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-19-11-141"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}