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New Jersey Statutes, Title: 2A, ADMINISTRATION OF CIVIL AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE

    Chapter 4:

      Section: 2A:4-30.159: Establishment of support order.

          36. 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 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 21 of this act.

L.2016, c.1, s.36.

This section added to the Rutgers Database: 2016-04-13 11:15:26.






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