407.5401 Petition to establish support order.

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(1)If a support order entitled to recognition under KRS 407.5101 to 407.5902 has not

been issued, a responding tribunal of this state with personal jurisdiction over the

parties may issue a support order if:

(a)The individual seeking the order resides outside this state; or

(b)The support enforcement agency seeking the order is located outside this 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)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 as provided by KRS 213.046;

(g)The mother of the child; or

(h)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 pursuant to KRS 407.5305.