1. 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 any of the following applies:
- a. The individual is personally served with notice within this state.
- b. 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.
- 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 acts or directives of the individual.
- 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 of a child in the declaration of paternity registry maintained in this state by the Iowa department of public health pursuant to section 144.12A or established paternity by affidavit under section 252A.3A.
- h. There is any other basis consistent with the constitutions of this state and the United States for the exercise of personal jurisdiction.
- 2. The bases of personal jurisdiction set forth in subsection 1 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 section 252K.611 are met, or, in the case of a foreign support order, unless the requirements of section 252K.615 are met.
97 Acts, ch 175, §125; 2015 Acts, ch 110, §6
Referred to in §252A.5, §252B.12, §252K.611, §252K.708