Section 19-11-140. Authority of tribunal upon failure to issue support order; temporary child support order

   (a) If a support order entitled to recognition under this article 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 or the law of a foreign country;

   (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 Code Section 19-11-124.

Code 1981, § 19-11-140, enacted by Ga. L. 1997, p. 1613, § 33; Ga. L. 2013, p. 705, § 1/SB 193.