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A.__The individual is personally served with notice within
this State;

 
B.__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;

 
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; or

 
G.__There is any other basis consistent with the
Constitution of Maine and the United States Constitution for
the exercise of personal jurisdiction.

 
2.__Use of bases to establish personal jurisdiction.__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 the State to modify a child
support order of another state unless the requirements of section
3253 or 3257 are met.

 
§2962.__Duration of personal jurisdiction

 
Personal jurisdiction acquired by a tribunal of this State in
a proceeding under this chapter or other law of this State
relating to a support order continues as long as a tribunal of
this State has continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify its
order or continuing jurisdiction to enforce its order as provided
by sections 2965, 2966 and 2971.

 
§2963.__Initiating and responding tribunal of this State

 
Under this chapter, a tribunal of this State may serve as an
initiating tribunal to forward proceedings to another state and
as a responding tribunal for proceedings initiated in another
state.

 
§2964.__Simultaneous proceedings


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