2A:4-30.159 Establishment of support order.
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36. Establishment of support order.
a. If a support order entitled to recognition under this act has not been issued, a responding tribunal of this State with personal jurisdiction over the parties may issue a support order if:
(1)the individual seeking the order resides outside this State; or
(2)the support enforcement agency seeking the order is located outside this State.
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)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 law;
(7)the mother of the child; or
(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. 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 21 of this act.
L.2016, c.1, s.36.