TITLE 19 DOMESTIC RELATIONS

Section 11. Enforcement of Duty of Support, 19-11-1 through 19-11-191.

ARTICLE 3 UNIFORM INTERSTATE FAMILY SUPPORT ACT

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

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.)