81-8-401. Establishment of support order.
(1) 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: the individual seeking the order resides outside this state; or the child support services agency seeking the order is located outside this state.
(2) 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: a presumed father of the child; petitioning to have the individual's parentage adjudicated; identified as the father of the child through genetic testing; an alleged father who has declined to submit to genetic testing; shown by clear and convincing evidence to be the father of the child; a declarant father, as defined in Section, determined in accordance with Chapter 5, Part 3, Voluntary Declaration of Paternity; 81-5-102 the birth mother of the child; or an individual who has been ordered to pay child support in a previous proceeding and the order 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 in accordance with Section. 81-8-305