Tennessee § 36-5-2401 - Establishment of support order.

§ 36-5-2401. Establishment of support order.

If a support order entitled to recognition under parts 20-29 of this chapter 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 this title; 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 § 36-5-2305. Acts 2010, ch. 901, § 1. Compiler's Notes. Part 20, § 36-5-2001 (Acts 1997, ch. 551, § 2), concerning the short title for title 36, ch. 5, parts 20-29, was repealed and reenacted by Acts 2010, ch. 901, § 1, upon completion of the provisions in § 2 of the act. Acts 2010, ch. 901, § 2, as amended by Acts 2016, ch. 664, § 4, provided that: “This act shall take effect when the department of human services files a notice with the secretary of state who shall publish the notice in the Tennessee Administrative Register on the secretary of state's web site, citing the effective date, which shall occur no later than April 1, 2016, the public welfare requiring it.” The date published by the secretary of state in the Tennessee Administrative Register was March 31, 2016.