Section 209D:4-401 - Establishment of support order(a) If a support order entitled to recognition under this chapter has not been issued, a responding tribunal of the commonwealth with personal jurisdiction over the parties may issue a support order if: (1) the individual seeking the order resides outside the commonwealth; or(2) the support enforcement agency seeking the order is located outside the commonwealth.(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 chapter 209C;(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 3-305.Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 209D, § 4-401
Amended by Acts 2016, c. 53,§ 1, eff. 3/31/2016.