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Texas Family Code - Section 159.201. Bases For Jurisdiction Over Nonresident

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§ 159.201. BASES FOR JURISDICTION OVER NONRESIDENT.  (a) 
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 or the individual's 
guardian or conservator if:
		(1)  the individual is personally served with citation 
in 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 paternity 
registry maintained in this state by the bureau of vital 
statistics;  or
		(8)  there is any other basis consistent with the 
constitutions of this state and the United States for the exercise 
of personal jurisdiction.
	(b)  A tribunal of this state may not use the bases of 
personal jurisdiction listed in Subsection (a) or in any other law 
of this state to acquire personal jurisdiction to modify a child 
support order of another state unless the requirements of Section 
159.611 or 159.615 are satisfied.

Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 20, § 1, eff. April 20, 1995.  
Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 561, § 5, eff. Sept. 1, 
1997;  Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1247, § 4, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.

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