(a) Jurisdiction.— If a support order entitled to recognition under this part has not been issued, a responding tribunal of this State with personal jurisdiction over the parties may issue a support order if any of the following apply:
- (1) The individual seeking the order resides outside this State.
- (2) The support enforcement agency seeking the order is located outside this State.
(b) Temporary orders.— The tribunal may issue a temporary child support order if the tribunal determines that an order is appropriate and the individual ordered to pay is any of the following:
- (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.
- (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) Relief.— 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 7305 (relating to duties and powers of responding tribunal).
(Dec. 28, 2015, P.L.559, No.94, eff. imd.)