{"data":{"id":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-63-17-3410","jurisdiction":"us-sc","citation":"S.C. Code Ann. § 63-17-3410","heading":"Issuance of 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 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 63-17-3250.","path":["Title 63 - SOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S CODE","CHAPTER 17 Paternity and Child Support","ARTICLE 23 Uniform Interstate Family Support Act"],"source_url":"https://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t63c017.php","current_through":"2025 Session of the General Assembly","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-02T08:09:49Z","sha256":"ce2f731b16671d042c3876086d3985831092d3ec009dbb7a97cfa78ce0da611a","source_id":"us-sc","stale":false,"prev":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-63-17-3390","next":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-63-17-3420"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}