§43-601-401. Petition to establish support order.

43 OK Stat § 43-601-401 (2019) (N/A)

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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 Section 1-311.3 of Title 63 of the Oklahoma Statutes;

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 601-305 of this title.

Added by Laws 1994, c. 160, § 33, eff. Sept. 1, 1994. Amended by Laws 2004, c. 367, § 27, eff. Nov. 1, 2004; Laws 2015, c. 104, § 30, eff. Nov. 1, 2015.

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