1. (a) 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:

   1. (1) the individual seeking the order resides outside this state; or
   2. (2) the support enforcement agency seeking the order is located outside this state.

2. (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. (1) a presumed father of the child;
   2. (2) petitioning to have his paternity adjudicated;
   3. (3) identified as the father of the child through genetic testing;
   4. (4) an alleged father who has declined to submit to genetic testing;
   5. (5) shown by clear and convincing evidence to be the father of the child;
   6. (6) an acknowledged father as provided by Section 26-17-101 et seq.;
   7. (7) the mother of the child; or
   8. (8) an individual who has been ordered to pay child support in a previous proceeding and the order has not been reversed or vacated.
3. (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 30-3D-305.

(Act 2015-284, §1.)