Oklahoma Code § 43-601-401

Title 43. Marriage And Family: Petition to establish support order
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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 Section 1-311.3 of
Title 63 of the Oklahoma Statutes;
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 601-305 of this title.

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