Bases for jurisdiction over nonresident.
[(7-1005) 7-1004, added 1994, ch. 207, sec. 2, p. 642; am. 1997, ch. 198, sec. 2, p. 559; am. and redesig. 2006, ch. 252, sec. 5, p. 767; am. 2015, 1st E.S., ch. 1, sec. 5, p. 10.]
(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:
- (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 registry maintained in this state by the vital statistics unit of the department of health and welfare provided in section 16-1513, Idaho Code; or
- (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) of this section or in any other law of this state may not be used to acquire personal jurisdiction for a tribunal of the state to modify a child-support order of another state unless the requirements of section 7-1053, Idaho Code, are met, or in the case of a foreign support order, unless the requirements of section 7-1057, Idaho Code, are met.
[(7-1005) 7-1004, added 1994, ch. 207, sec. 2, p. 642; am. 1997, ch. 198, sec. 2, p. 559; am. and redesig. 2006, ch. 252, sec. 5, p. 767; am. 2015, 1st E.S., ch. 1, sec. 5, p. 10.]