(a) In a proceeding to establish or enforce a support order or to determine parentage of a child, 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 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 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 of a child in the registry of paternity maintained in this State by the Office 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) 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 this State to modify a child support order of another state unless the requirements of § 6-611 of this title are met, or, in the case of a foreign support order, unless the requirements of § 6-615 of this title are met.
69 Del. Laws, c. 238, § 1; 75 Del. Laws, c. 64, § 1; 80 Del. Laws, c. 60, § 2