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(a) If a support order entitled to recognition under this chapter has not been issued, a responding tribunal of Puerto Rico with personal jurisdiction over the parties may issue a support order if:\n(1) The individual seeking the order resides outside Puerto Rico; or\n(2) the support enforcement agency seeking the order is located outside Puerto Rico.\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

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 § 1325 of this title.\nHistory —July 2, 2015, No. 103, § 401.