P.R. Laws tit. 8, § 1301
(a) In a proceeding to establish or enforce a support order or to determine parentage of a child, a tribunal of Puerto Rico may exercise personal jurisdiction over a nonresident individual or the individual’s guardian or conservator if:
(1) The individual is personally served or notified within Puerto Rico;
(2) the individual submits to the jurisdiction of Puerto Rico 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;
(3) the individual resided with the child in Puerto Rico;
(4) the individual resided in Puerto Rico and provided prenatal expenses or support for the child;
(5) the child resides in Puerto Rico as a result of the acts or directives of the individual;
(6) the individual engaged in sexual intercourse in Puerto Rico and the child may have been conceived by that act of intercourse;
(7) the individual asserted parentage in the Puerto Rico Vital Records maintained by the Department of Health of Puerto Rico; or
(8) there is any other basis consistent with the constitutions of Puerto Rico and the United States for the exercise of personal jurisdiction.
(b) The bases of personal jurisdiction set forth in subsection (a) of this section or in any other law of Puerto Rico may not be used to acquire personal jurisdiction for a tribunal of Puerto Rico to modify a child-support order of another state unless the requirements of § 1381 of this title are met, or, in the case of a foreign support order, unless the requirements of § 1385 of this title are met.
History —July 2, 2015, No. 103, § 201.