25-9C-401. Establishment of support order.
(a) If a support order entitled to recognition pursuant to this chapter has not been issued, a responding tribunal of this state with personal jurisdiction over the parties may issue a support order if:
(1)The individual seeking the order resides outside this state; or
(2)The support enforcement agency seeking the order is located outside this state.
(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:
(1)A presumed father of the child;
(2)Petitioning to have his paternity adjudicated;
(3)Identified as the father of the child through genetic testing;
(4)An alleged father who has declined to submit to genetic testing;
(5)Shown by clear and convincing evidence to be the father of the child;
(6)An acknowledged father as provided by applicable state law;
(7)The mother of the child; or
(8)An individual who has been ordered to pay child support in a previous proceeding and the order has not been reversed or vacated.
(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 §25-9C-305.
Source: SL 2015, ch 148, §401.