South Carolina § 63-17-3410 - Issuance of order.

§ 63-17-3410. Issuance of 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 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 63-17-3250.

HISTORY: 2008 Act No. 361, SECTION 2; 2015 Act No. 33 (S.500), SECTION 1, eff June 1, 2015.

Effect of Amendment

2015 Act No. 33, SECTION 1, in (A), inserted "with personal jurisdiction over the parties"; and in (A)(1) and (A)(2), substituted "outside this State" for "in another state".