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Ark. Code Ann. § 9-17-201

Bases for jurisdiction over nonresident

Known as the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act

The act spans §§ 9–9 (78 sections).

Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case Payne v. France (2008)

Most recently applied in 2020 Ark. App. 122 - Natalie Tompkins v. Lawrence Tompkins (February 2020)

Acts 1993, No. 468, § 1; 2015, No. 888, § 1.

(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: the individual is personally served with summons 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 Putative Father Registry maintained in this state by the Department of Health; or

(8) there is any other basis consistent with the constitutions of this state and the United States for the exercise of personal jurisdiction.

(9) 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 § 9-17-611 are met, or, in the case of a foreign support order, unless the requirements of § 9-17-615 are met.

Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.