2022 Delaware Code
Title 13 - Domestic Relations
Chapter 6. UNIFORM INTERSTATE FAMILY SUPPORT ACT
Subchapter IV. Establishment of Support Order or Determination of Parentage.
§ 6-401. 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 Chapter 8 of this title;
(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 § 6-305 of this title.
69 Del. Laws, c. 238, § 1; 71 Del. Laws, c. 216, § 140; 75 Del. Laws, c. 64, § 1; 80 Del. Laws, c. 60, § 4;
