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2010 Florida Statutes

Title VI CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE
Chapter 88 UNIFORM INTERSTATE FAMILY SUPPORT ACT Entire Chapter
SECTION 2011
Bases for jurisdiction over nonresident.
F.S. 88.2011
88.2011

Bases for jurisdiction over nonresident.

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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 citation, summons, or notice 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 a tribunal or in a putative father registry maintained in this state by the appropriate agency; 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.
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s. 2, ch. 96-189.