If a support order entitled to recognition under this chapter has not been issued, a responding tribunal of the District with personal jurisdiction over the parties may issue a support order if: The individual seeking the order resides outside the District; or The support enforcement agency seeking the order is located outside the District. 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 §§ 16-909.01 to 16-909.05 ; 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 § 46-353.05 .
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