{"data":{"id":"us-nh/rsa-546-b-31","jurisdiction":"us-nh","citation":"RSA 546-B:31","heading":"Establishment of Support Order.","body":"I. 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:\n(a) The individual seeking the order resides outside this state; or\n(b) The support enforcement agency seeking the order is located outside this state.\nII. 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(a) A presumed father of the child;\n(b) Petitioning to have his paternity adjudicated;\n(c) Identified as the father of the child through genetic testing;\n(d) An alleged father who has declined to submit to genetic testing;\n(e) Shown by clear and convincing evidence to be the father of the child;\n(f) An acknowledged father as provided by New Hampshire law;\n(g) The mother of the child; or\n(h) An individual who has been ordered to pay child support in a previous proceeding and the order has not been reversed or vacated.\nIII. 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 RSA 546-B:16.","path":["Title LV: PROCEEDINGS IN SPECIAL CASES","Chapter ARTICLE 4: ESTABLISHMENT OF SUPPORT ORDER OR DETERMINATION OF PARENTAGE"],"source_url":"https://gc.nh.gov/rsa/html/LV/546-B/546-B-31.htm","current_through":"2025 regular legislative session, or December 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T17:01:43Z","sha256":"a381f5ad9f2a81f5cc78d494bf679a63b85511f97ac195cc6584cd3d9536e238","source_id":"us-nh","stale":false,"prev":"us-nh/rsa-546-b-30","next":"us-nh/rsa-546-b-31-a"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}