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<section article="gfl" article_name="Family Law" number="10-304" title_number="10" title_name="Support in General" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Maryland Uniform Interstate Family Support Act">
  <level label="a">
    <text>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:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the individual is personally served within this State;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>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;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>the individual resided with the child in this State;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>the individual resided in this State and provided prenatal expenses or support for the child;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>the child resides in this State as a result of the acts or directives of the individual;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>the individual engaged in sexual intercourse in this State and the child may have been conceived by that act of intercourse; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>there is any other basis consistent with the constitutions of this State and the United States for the exercise of personal jurisdiction.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The bases of personal jurisdiction set forth in subsection (a) of this section 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 § 10–350 of this subtitle are met, or, in the case of a foreign support order, unless the requirements of § 10–353.1 of this subtitle are met.</text>
  </level>
</section>
