IOWA STATUTES AND CODES
252K.201 - BASES FOR JURISDICTION OVER NONRESIDENT.
252K.201 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 any of the following applies:
1. The individual is personally served with 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 the declaration of
paternity registry maintained in this state by the Iowa department of
public health pursuant to section 144.12A or established paternity by
affidavit under section 252A.3A.
8. There is any other basis consistent with the constitutions of
this state and the United States for the exercise of personal
jurisdiction. Section History: Recent Form
97 Acts, ch 175, §125
Referred to in § 252A.5, 252B.12, 252K.202
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