As Amended
SEC. 93-25-65. Petition to establish support order.
(1) If a support order entitled to recognition under this chapter has not been issued, a responding tribunal of this state may issue a support order if:
(a) The individual seeking the order resides in another state; or
(b) The support enforcement agency seeking the order is located in another state.
(2) 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:
(a) Presumed father of the child;
(b) Petitioning to have his paternity adjudicated;
(c) Identified as the father of the child through genetic testing;
(d) An alleged father who has declined to submit to genetic testing;
(e) Shown by clear and convincing evidence to be the father of the child;
(f) An acknowledged father;
(g) The mother of the child; or
(h) An individual who has been ordered to pay child support in a previous proceeding that has not been reversed or vacated.
(3) 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 93-25-35 * * *.
SOURCES: 1997 Laws, Chapter 588, Sec. 103, SB2164; Laws, 2004, ch. 406, § 25, SB 2851, eff from and after July 1, 2004.
PREVIOUS VERSIONS: Pre-2004