40-4-210. Child support jurisdiction -- nonresident individual. A court of this state that is competent to decide child support matters may exercise personal jurisdiction over a nonresident individual or the individual's guardian or conservator in a child support determination in the initial or modification decree if:
     (1) the individual is personally served with notice within this state in accordance with Rule 4B, Montana Rules of Civil Procedure;
     (2) the individual submits to the jurisdiction of this state by consent, by entering a general appearance, or by filing a responsive document that has the effect of waiving any contest to personal jurisdiction;
     (3) the individual has resided with the child within this state;
     (4) the child was adopted within this state when at least one parent was a resident;
     (5) the individual resided in this state and provided prenatal expenses or support for the child;
     (6) the child resides in this state as a result of the acts or directives of the individual;
     (7) the individual engaged in sexual intercourse in this state and the child may have been conceived by that act of intercourse; or
     (8) there is any other basis consistent with the constitutions of this state and the United States for the exercise of the personal jurisdiction.

     History: En. Sec. 1, Ch. 459, L. 1989; amd. Sec. 52, Ch. 328, L. 1993.