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2020 Tennessee Code
Title 36 - Domestic Relations
Chapter 5 - Alimony and Child Support
Part 24 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act — Establishment of Support Order or Determination of Parentage
§ 36-5-2401. Establishment of Support Order
Universal Citation: TN Code § 36-5-2401 (2020)
- If a support order entitled to recognition under parts 20-29 of this chapter has not been issued, a responding tribunal of this state with personal jurisdiction over the parties may issue a support order if:
- The individual seeking the order resides outside this state; or
- The support enforcement agency seeking the order is located outside this state.
- 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:
- A presumed father of the child;
- Petitioning to have his paternity adjudicated;
- Identified as the father of the child through genetic testing;
- An alleged father who has declined to submit to genetic testing;
- Shown by clear and convincing evidence to be the father of the child;
- An acknowledged father as provided by this title;
- The mother of the child; or
- An individual who has been ordered to pay child support in a previous proceeding and the order has not been reversed or vacated.
- 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 § 36-5-2305.
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