Legal Question in Family Law in Texas

Yes, depending on the circumstances.

UIFSA sets out eight bases for a State to assert long-arm jurisdiction over a nonresident defendant:

1. the individual is personally served within the State;

2. the individual submits to the jurisdiction of the 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 the State;

4. the individual resided in the State and provided prenatal expenses or support for the child;

5. the child resides in the State as a result of the acts or directives of the individual;

6. the individual engaged in sexual intercourse in the State, and the child might have been conceived by that act of intercourse;

7. the individual asserted parentage in the putative father registry maintained in the State; or

8. there is any other basis consistent with the constitutions of the State and the United States for the exercise of personal jurisdiction.