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N.D. Cent. Code § 14-12.2-32

(401) Petition to establish support order

1. 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:

a. The individual seeking the order resides outside this state; or b. The support enforcement agency seeking the order is located outside this state.

2. 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. A presumed father of the child;

b. Petitioning to have his paternity adjudicated;

c. Identified as the father of the child through genetic testing;

d. An alleged father who has declined to submit to genetic testing;

e. Shown by clear and convincing evidence to be the father of the child;

f. An acknowledged father as provided by chapter 14-20;

g. The mother of the child; or h. An individual who has been ordered to pay child support in a previous proceeding and the order has not been reversed or vacated.

3. 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 under section 14-12.2-17.

Official source: North Dakota Legislative Branch. Reproduced from public-domain North Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.