§ 1401

Establishment of support order (a) If a support order entitled to recognition under this title 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 the 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

vious 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 section 1305 of this title. (Added 2015, No. 16, § 2, eff. June 1, 2015.)