eLaws of Florida

SECTION 88.2011. Bases for jurisdiction over nonresident.  


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  • 1(1) 2In a proceeding to establish or enforce a support order or to determine parentage of a child, a tribunal of this state may exercise personal jurisdiction over a nonresident individual or the individual’s guardian or conservator if:
    39(a) 40The individual is personally served with citation, summons, or notice within this state;
    53(b) 54The individual submits to the jurisdiction of this state by consent in a record, by entering a general appearance, or by filing a responsive document having the effect of waiving any contest to personal jurisdiction;
    89(c) 90The individual resided with the child in this state;
    99(d) 100The individual resided in this state and provided prenatal expenses or support for the child;
    115(e) 116The child resides in this state as a result of the acts or directives of the individual;
    133(f) 134The individual engaged in sexual intercourse in this state and the child may have been conceived by that act of intercourse;
    155(g) 156The individual asserted parentage of a child in a tribunal or in a putative father registry maintained in this state by the appropriate agency; or
    181(h) 182There is any other basis consistent with the constitutions of this state and the United States for the exercise of personal jurisdiction.
    204(2) 205The bases of personal jurisdiction set forth in subsection (1) or in any other law of this state may not be used to acquire personal jurisdiction for a tribunal of this state to modify a child support order of another state unless the requirements of s. 25188.6111 252are met, or, in the case of a foreign support order, unless the requirements of s. 26888.6151 269are met.
History.-s. 2, ch. 96-189; s. 5, ch. 2011-92.

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