88.2011 Bases for jurisdiction over nonresident. - Florida Statutes

88.2011 Bases 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 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. s. 2, ch. 96-189.