407.5201 Basis for jurisdiction over nonresident.
In a proceeding to establish, enforce, or modify a support order or to determine parentage,
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 summons, or notice within this state;
(2) The individual submits to the jurisdiction of this state by consent, by entering a
general appearance, or by filing a responsive pleading 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 in the putative father registry maintained in this
state by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; or
(8) There is any other basis consistent with the constitutions of this state and the United
States for the exercise of personal jurisdiction.
Effective: June 20, 2005
History: Amended 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 99, sec. 642, effective June 20, 2005. -- Amended
1998 Ky. Acts ch. 426, sec. 594, effective July 15, 1998. -- Contingent effective date
repealed 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 101, sec. 20, effective March 23, 1998. -- Created 1996
Ky. Acts ch. 365, sec. 16, effective upon contingency.
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