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2012 Statute



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23-36,201.Basis for jurisdiction over nonresident. In a proceeding to establish, enforce or modify a support order or to determine parentage, a tribunal of this state may exercise personal jurisdiction over a nonresident individual or the individual's guardian or conservator if:

(a) The individual is personally served with notice within this state;

(b) the individual submits to the jurisdiction of this state by consent, by entering a general appearance, or by filing a responsive document having the effect of waiving any contest to personal jurisdiction;

(c) the individual resided with the child in this state;

(d) the individual resided in this state and provided prenatal expenses or support for the child;

(e) the child resides in this state as a result of the acts or directives of the individual;

(f) the individual engaged in sexual intercourse in this state and the child may have been conceived by that act of intercourse;

(g) the individual asserted parentage in the putative father registry maintained in this state by the secretary of the department of social and rehabilitation services; or

(h) there is any other basis consistent with the constitutions of this state and the United States for the exercise of personal jurisdiction.

History: L. 1994, ch. 301, § 35; July 1.



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