{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-93-25-201","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 93-25-201","heading":"Bases for jurisdiction over nonresident.","body":"(a) 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:\n(1) The individual is personally served with process within this state;\n(2) 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;\n(3) The individual resided with the child in this state;\n(4) The individual resided in this state and provided prenatal expenses or support for the child;\n(5) The child resides in this state as a result of the acts or directives of the individual;\n(6) The individual engaged in sexual intercourse in this state and the child may have been conceived by that act of intercourse;\n(7) The individual asserted parentage of a child as provided by law in this state; or\n(8) There is any other basis consistent with the constitutions of this state and the United States for the exercise of personal jurisdiction.\n(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 Section 93-25-611 are met, or, in the case of a foreign support order, unless the requirements of Section 93-25-615 are met.","path":["Title 93. Domestic Relations","Chapter 25. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act","Article 2. Jurisdiction."],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ms.code.ann.2018/release78.2020.07.08/gov.ms.code.title.93.odt","current_through":"2020-07-08","vintage":"Mississippi Code Release 78 (2020-07), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-10-27T05:54:58Z","sha256":"c8c25d7b7864f5da471dfbf0777c0fe3e9d65554ee5c82789e0871a0f0e17053","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-93-25-105","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-93-25-202","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"id":"pro-ms","title":"Mississippi Release 78 supplement","text":"Mississippi electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain dedication. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 78 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.ms.code.ann.2018"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}