Section 552.1201 - Tribunal; personal jurisdiction over nonresident.
UNIFORM INTERSTATE FAMILY SUPPORT ACT (EXCERPT)
Act 310 of 1996
552.1201 Tribunal; personal jurisdiction over nonresident.
Sec. 201.
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 are true:
(a) The individual is personally served with citation, summons, or notice within this state.
(b) 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 a contest to personal jurisdiction.
(c) The individual resided with the child in this state.
(d) The individual resided in this state and provided prenatal expenses or support for the child.
(e) The child resides in this state as a result of the individual's acts or directives.
(f) The individual engaged in sexual intercourse in this state and the child may have been conceived by that act of intercourse.
(g) The individual asserted parentage in the parentage registry maintained in this state.
(h) There is another basis consistent with the constitutions of this state and the United States for the exercise of personal jurisdiction.
History: 1996, Act 310, Eff. June 1, 1997