Section 454.857

Title XXX DOMESTIC RELATIONS

Chapter 454

Effective - 01 Jan 1997, 2 histories, see footnote   (history) 

  *454.857.  Jurisdiction, extended personal jurisdiction. — 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 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 putative father registry maintained in this state by the department of health and senior services; or

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

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(L. 1996 H.B. 992)

Effective 1-01-97

*Repealed L. 2011 H.B. 260, see § 454.849 for contingent effective date