ARTICLE
2.  JURISDICTION



 



PART I. 
EXTENDED PERSONAL JURISDICTION



 



[§576B-201]  Bases 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 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 in the office
of health status monitoring maintained in this State by the department of
health; or



(8)  There is any other basis consistent with the
constitutions of this State and the United States for the exercise of personal
jurisdiction. [L 1997, c 295, pt of §1]



 



Case Notes



 



  As Hawaii retains its continuing jurisdiction to enforce a
child support order as long as the order has not been modified by a tribunal of
another state pursuant to chapter 576B or a law substantially similar to it,
this section authorized the family court to enforce the child support order
even though the father, mother, and children were no longer residents of this
State.  98 H. 168 (App.), 45 P.3d 368.



  Where family court had neither general nor specific
jurisdiction over father, court erred in entering default judgment against
father in mother's child support action.  110 H. 294 (App.), 132 P.3d 862.