2017 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 63 - South Carolina Children's Code
CHAPTER 17 - PATERNITY AND CHILD SUPPORT
Section 63-17-3010. Personal jurisdiction of nonresident.
(A) 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:
(1) the individual is personally served with notice and a summons 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 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 Social 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.
(B) 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 Section 63-17-3830 or 63-17-3870 are met, or in the case of a foreign support order, unless the requirements of Section 63-17-3870 are met.
HISTORY: 2008 Act No. 361, Section 2; 2015 Act No. 33 (S.500), Section 1, eff June 1, 2015.
Effect of Amendment
2015 Act No. 33, Section 1, in (A) and (A)(7), inserted "of a child"; in (A)(7), inserted "by the Department of Social Services"; in (B), substituted "tribunal of this State" for "tribunal of the State", substituted "child-support order" for "child support order", and added "or in the case of a foreign support order, unless the requirements of Section 63-17-3870 are met".
