Section 10-304 - Bases for jurisdiction over nonresident. - Maryland Statutes

§ 10-304. Bases for jurisdiction over nonresident.
 

(a)  In general.- In a proceeding to establish or enforce a support order or to determine parentage, a tribunal of this State may exercise personal jurisdiction over a nonresident individual if: 

(1) the individual is personally served within this State; 

(2) the 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; 

(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 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; or 

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

(b)  Modification of foreign child support order excluded.- The bases of personal jurisdiction set forth in subsection (a) of this section or in any other law of this State may not be used to acquire personal jurisdiction for a tribunal of the State to modify a child support order of another state unless the requirements of §§ 10-350 and 10-353.1 of this subtitle are met. 
 

[1997, ch. 609, § 1; 2008, ch. 522; 2010, chs. 72, 122.]