IC 31-18.5-4-1 — Issuance of support order and temporary child support order
Chapter 4. Establishment of Support Order or Determination of Parentage
Section text
Sec. 1. (a) If a support order entitled to recognition under this article has not been issued, a responding Indiana tribunal with personal jurisdiction over the parties may issue a support order if: (1) the individual seeking the order resides outside Indiana; or (2) the support enforcement agency seeking the order is located outside Indiana. (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 the individual's parentage 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 IC 16-37-2-2.1; (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 under IC 31-18.5-3-5.
As added by P.L.206-2015, SEC.53.
Source: official publisher (2026 edition)