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

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

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: The individual seeking the order resides outside this state; or The support enforcement agency seeking the order is located outside this state. 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 presumed father of the child; Petitioning to have his paternity adjudicated; Identified as the father of the child through genetic testing; An alleged father who has declined to submit to genetic testing; Shown by clear and convincing evidence to be the father of the child; An acknowledged father as provided by applicable state law or the law of a foreign country; The mother of the child; or An individual who has been ordered to pay child support in a previous proceeding and the order has not been reversed or vacated. 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.)