S.C. Code § 63-17-3410

Current through 2024 Act No. 209.
Section 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.

S.C. Code § 63-17-3410

Amended by 2015 S.C. Acts, Act No. 33 (SB 500), s 1, eff. 6/1/2015.
2008 Act No. 361, Section 2.