2A:4-30.68 Personal jurisdiction over nonresident individual.


2A:4-30.68  Personal jurisdiction over nonresident individual.

      4.      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:

      a.      the individual is personally served with a summons or notice within this State;

      b.      the individual submits to the jurisdiction of this State by consent, 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 expense 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; or

      g.      there is any other basis consistent with the constitutions of this State and the United States for the exercise of personal jurisdiction.

      L.1998, c.2, s.4.
 
2A:4-30.69  Applicable laws governing exercise of jurisdiction over nonresident.

      5.      A tribunal of this State exercising personal jurisdiction over a nonresident under section 4 of this act may apply section 28 of this act to receive evidence from another state, and section 30 of this act to obtain discovery through a tribunal of another state.  In all other respects, sections 13 through 53 of this act do not apply and the tribunal shall apply the procedural and substantive law of this State, including the rules on choice of law other than those established by this act.

      L.1998,c.2,s.5.
 
2A:4-30.70  Initiating, responding tribunal.