(750 ILCS 22/Art. 4 heading)

(750 ILCS 22/401) Sec. 401. 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 applicable

State 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 305. (Source: P.A. 99-119, eff. 1-1-16.)

(750 ILCS 22/402) Sec. 402. Proceeding to determine parentage. A tribunal of this State authorized to determine parentage of a child may serve as a responding tribunal in a proceeding to determine parentage of a child brought under this Act or a law or procedure substantially similar to this Act. (Source: P.A. 99-119, eff. 1-1-16.)