TITLE 13


Domestic Relations


CHAPTER 6. UNIFORM INTERSTATE FAMILY SUPPORT ACT


Subchapter IV. Establishment of Support Order


§ 6-401. Petition to establish support order.


(a) If a support order entitled to recognition under this chapter has not been issued, a responding tribunal of this State
may issue a support order if:


(1) The individual seeking the order resides in another state; or


(2) The support enforcement agency seeking the order is located in another 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.;