Tennessee § 36-5-2201 - Bases for jurisdiction over nonresident.

§ 36-5-2201. Bases for jurisdiction over nonresident.

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: The individual is personally served with notice within this state; 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; The individual resided with the child in this state; The individual resided in this state and provided prenatal expenses or support for the child; The child resides in this state as a result of the acts or directives of the individual; The individual engaged in sexual intercourse in this state and the child may have been conceived by that act of intercourse; The individual asserted parentage of a child in the putative father registry maintained in this state by the department of children's services; or There is any other basis consistent with the constitutions of this state and the United States for the exercise of personal jurisdiction. The bases of personal jurisdiction set forth in subsection (a) 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 § 36-5-2611 are met, or, in the case of a foreign support order, unless the requirements of § 36-5-2615 are met. Acts 2010, ch. 901, § 1. Compiler's Notes. Part 20, § 36-5-2001 (Acts 1997, ch. 551, § 2), concerning the short title for title 36, ch. 5, parts 20-29, was repealed and reenacted by Acts 2010, ch. 901, § 1, upon completion of the provisions in § 2 of the act. Acts 2010, ch. 901, § 2, as amended by Acts 2016, ch. 664, § 4, provided that: “This act shall take effect when the department of human services files a notice with the secretary of state who shall publish the notice in the Tennessee Administrative Register on the secretary of state's web site, citing the effective date, which shall occur no later than April 1, 2016, the public welfare requiring it.” The date published by the secretary of state in the Tennessee Administrative Register was March 31, 2016.