9-17-201. 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:        

         (1) the individual is personally served with summons within this state;              

         (2) 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;              

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

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

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

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

         (7) the individual asserted parentage in the Putative Father Registry maintained in this state by the Department of Health; or              

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


History..Acts 1993, No. 468, § 1.