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The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title VI
CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE
Chapter 88
UNIFORM INTERSTATE FAMILY SUPPORT ACT
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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;
(c) The individual resided with the child in this state;
(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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Cases Citing Statute 88.2011

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Dep't of Revenue v. Cascella, 751 So. 2d 1273 (Fla. 5th DCA 2000).

Cited 3 times | Published | Florida 5th District Court of Appeal | 2000 WL 282320

...th the tribunal of this state for a tribunal of another state to modify the order and assume continuing exclusive jurisdiction. This statute became effective on July 1, 1997, in Florida and is part of Florida's Uniform Interstate Family Support Act, section 88.2011, et seq., which replaced URESA....
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Bouquety v. Bouquety, 933 So. 2d 610 (Fla. 3d DCA 2006).

Cited 1 times | Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal | 2006 WL 1751752

...d either personal or subject matter jurisdiction); Rains v. Washington, Dep't of Soc. & Health Servs., 98 Wash.App. 127, 989 P.2d 558, 562 (2000) ("[a] judgment is valid if the court had jurisdiction, there was notice, and the court was competent"); § 88.2011(1), Fla....
...However, this portion of her petition was properly dismissed because neither party met Florida's residency requirement prior to the filing. See § 61.021, Fla. Stat. (2000). The parties do not dispute the trial court had jurisdiction to enter the Florida child support order. See § 88.2011, Fla....
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E.K. v. Dep't of Child. & Fam. Servs., 874 So. 2d 720 (Fla. 2d DCA 2004).

Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal | 2004 Fla. App. LEXIS 8019, 2004 WL 1252690

...ant resides.” § 742.021. The Uniform Interstate Family Support Act (UIFSA), chapter 88, Florida Statutes (2003), is the vehicle for Florida courts to establish jurisdiction over certain nonresidents in proceedings to determine parentage. However, section 88.2011 lists eight bases for jurisdiction over nonresidents, all of which require some connection with this state unless the individual submits to the jurisdiction of the Florida courts and none of which apply to E.K....
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Wright v. Lewis, 849 So. 2d 379 (Fla. 4th DCA 2003).

Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 2003 Fla. App. LEXIS 8286, 2003 WL 21275172

...The trial court, without holding an evi-dentiary hearing to resolve the factual disputes, concluded that the father’s failure to pay child support and his “decision to leave the child” in Florida subjected him to personal jurisdiction under the UCCJA, section 88.2011(5), Florida Statutes (2000)....
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Carl Fredrik Gustafasson v. The Matter of Catherine Levine, 186 So. 3d 562 (Fla. 4th DCA 2015).

Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 2015 Fla. App. LEXIS 18020, 2015 WL 7752887

...personal jurisdiction over the Father because she failed to plead any facts sufficient to demonstrate personal jurisdiction over the Father under Florida’s long-arm statute, section 48.193, Florida Statutes (2014), or the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act, section 88.2011, Florida Statutes (2014)....
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Carr v. Sharkey, 909 So. 2d 482 (Fla. 5th DCA 2005).

Published | Florida 5th District Court of Appeal | 2005 Fla. App. LEXIS 13397, 2005 WL 2043050

...usetts and had never been a resident of Florida. He further alleged that he did not-have any ties or contacts with Florida. The trial court entered an order denying the motion to dismiss finding that Florida had personal jurisdiction over Carr under section 88.2011(5) of the Florida Statutes because he had agreed to the entry of an order in New York which permitted the mother and the minor child to relocate to Florida....
...g contrary to the public policy of Florida. This appeal timely followed. 1 The Uniform Interstate Family Support Act (UIFSA), Chapter 88, Florida Statutes (2003), is the vehicle for Florida courts to establish jurisdiction over certain nonresidents. Section 88.2011 lists eight bases for jurisdiction over nonresidents, all of which require some connection with this state, unless the individual voluntarily submits to the jurisdiction of the Florida courts. Specifically, section 88.2011(5) of the Florida Statutes provides: 88.2011....
...tribunal of this state may exercise personal jurisdiction over a nonresident individual or the individual’s guardian or conservator if: [[Image here]] (5) The child resides in this state as a result of the acts or directives of the individual.... § 88.2011(5), Fla....
...Here, it appears from the record that the trial court held three hearings on Carr’s dismissal motion. At the conclusion of the hearings, the trial court found that it has personal jurisdiction over the Respondent, Steven R. Carr, a resident of the State of Massachusetts, under F.S. 88.2011(5) as a result of his agreeing to the entry of a State of New York court order permitting the Petitioner and the minor child to relocate to the State of Florida ......

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