2011 California Code
Family Code
DIVISION 9. SUPPORT [3500 - 5616]
ARTICLE 4. Establishment of Support Order
Section 4935

(a) If a support order entitled to recognition under this chapter has not been issued, a responding tribunal of this state may issue a support order if either of the following conditions apply:

(1) The individual seeking the order resides in another state.

(2) The support enforcement agency seeking the order is located in another state.

(b) The tribunal may issue a temporary child support order if the tribunal determines that the order is appropriate and the individual ordered to pay is one of the following:

(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.

(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 4919.

(Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch. 349, Sec. 27. Effective January 1, 2003. Operative July 1, 2004, or later, upon federal government action specified in Sec. 47 of Ch. 349.)