Chapter 4. Establishment Of Support Order Or Determination Of Parentage of California Family Law Code >> Division 9. >> Part 6. >> Chapter 4.
(a) If a support order entitled to recognition under this
part 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;
(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 5700.305.
A tribunal of this state authorized to determine
parentage of a child may serve as a responding tribunal in a
proceeding to determine parentage of a child brought under this part
or a law or procedure substantially similar to this part.