2023 Illinois Compiled Statutes
Chapter 750 - FAMILIES
750 ILCS 22/ - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act.
Article 4 - Establishment Of Support Order Or Determination Of Parentage
(750 ILCS 22/Art. 4 heading)
(750 ILCS 22/401)
Sec. 401. Establishment of support order.
(a) If a support order entitled to recognition under this Act 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) 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 305.
(Source: P.A. 99-119, eff. 1-1-16.)
(750 ILCS 22/402)
Sec. 402. Proceeding to determine parentage. A tribunal of this State authorized to determine parentage of a child may serve as a responding tribunal in a proceeding to determine parentage of a child brought under this Act or a law or procedure substantially similar to this Act.
(Source: P.A. 99-119, eff. 1-1-16.)