The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title VI
CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE

Chapter 88
UNIFORM INTERSTATE FAMILY SUPPORT ACT

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F.S. 88.2011

88.2011 Bases for jurisdiction over nonresident.—

(1) 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:

(a) The individual is personally served with citation, summons, or notice within this state;

(b) 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;

(d) The individual resided in this state and provided prenatal expenses 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;

(g) The individual asserted parentage of a child in a tribunal or in a putative father registry maintained in this state by the appropriate agency; or

(h) There is any other basis consistent with the constitutions of this state and the United States for the exercise of personal jurisdiction.

(2) The bases of personal jurisdiction set forth in subsection (1) 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 s. 88.6111 are met, or, in the case of a foreign support order, unless the requirements of s. 88.6151 are met.

History.—s. 2, ch. 96-189; s. 5, ch. 2011-92.

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Amendments to 88.2011

Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 88.2011

Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 88.2011.

Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

GUSTAFASSON, v. LEVINE,, 186 So. 3d 562 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2015)

. . . statute, section 48.193, Florida Statutes (2014), or the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act, section 88.2011 . . .

J. SCHAFFER, v. S. LING,, 76 So. 3d 940 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2011)

. . . conception of the child in Florida provided jurisdiction under sections 742.011, 48.193(l)(h), and 88.2011 . . .

BOUQUETY, v. BOUQUETY,, 933 So. 2d 610 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2006)

. . . judgment is valid if the court had jurisdiction, there was notice, and the court was competent”); § 88.2011 . . . See § 88.2011, Fla. Stat. (2000). . . .

R. CARR, v. M. SHARKEY, f k a M., 909 So. 2d 482 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2005)

. . . denying the motion to dismiss finding that Florida had personal jurisdiction over Carr under section 88.2011 . . . Section 88.2011 lists eight bases for jurisdiction over nonresidents, all of which require some connection . . . Specifically, section 88.2011(5) of the Florida Statutes provides: 88.2011. . . . . § 88.2011(5), Fla. Stat. (2002). . . . Carr, a resident of the State of Massachusetts, under F.S. 88.2011(5) as a result of his agreeing to . . .

In S. M. a E. K. v., 874 So. 2d 720 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2004)

. . . However, section 88.2011 lists eight bases for jurisdiction over nonresidents, all of which require some . . .

WRIGHT, v. E. LEWIS, 849 So. 2d 379 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2003)

. . . decision to leave the child” in Florida subjected him to personal jurisdiction under the UCCJA, section 88.2011 . . .

DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE CASCELLA, v. CASCELLA,, 751 So. 2d 1273 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2000)

. . . on July 1, 1997, in Florida and is part of Florida’s Uniform Interstate Family Support Act, section 88.2011 . . .