Section 159.401 - Establishment of Support Order(a) If a support order entitled to recognition under this chapter 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) On finding, after notice and an 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 Section 159.305.Amended by Acts 2015, Texas Acts of the 84th Leg. - Regular Session, ch. 368,Sec. 32, eff. 7/1/2015.Subchapter heading amended by Acts 2015, Texas Acts of the 84th Leg. - Regular Session, ch. 368,Sec. 31, eff. 7/1/2015.Amended by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1247, Sec. 26, eff. 9/1/2003.