South Carolina Code 63-17-3010. Personal jurisdiction of nonresident
(1) the individual is personally served with notice and a summons within this State;
Terms Used In South Carolina Code 63-17-3010
- Child: means a person under the age of eighteen. See South Carolina Code 63-1-40
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
(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 § 63-17-3830 or 63-17-3870 are met, or in the case of a foreign support order, unless the requirements of § 63-17-3870 are met.