| On rare occasion, however, the required personal jurisdiction |
| over the respondent may be available only by virtue of the |
| long-arm provisions of this section, which explains why |
| Sections 201, 205, 207, 611 and 615 must read in conjunction |
| with one another. An example of such a situation is as |
| follows: the controlling child-support order was issued by a |
| tribunal in State A, which of course had personal jurisdiction |
| over the parties when it issued its order; the obligee and |
| child presently reside in State B (a State the obligor has |
| never even visited); the obligor presently is employed and |
| resides in Nation X, although the obligor's "home base" in the |
| United States can be identified as State C where the |
| headquarters of the obligor's employer is located; and, |
| finally, other than Nation X, the only states that can claim a |
| nexus with the obligor sufficient to assert personal |
| jurisdiction over him are State C and perhaps State A. Under |
| this fact situation, it is necessary to invoke one of the |
| long-arm bases of Section 201 to assert the personal |
| jurisdiction over the obligor necessary to modify the order. |
| Note that the long-arm statute may not be asserted in State B |
| where the movant resides due to the restriction provided in |
| Section 611, even if a basis exists for assertion of long-arm |
| jurisdiction in that State. The employment connection in State |
| C is likely to permit a tribunal in that State to assert |
| jurisdiction to modify the support order based on the catch- |
| all provision, Subsection (a)(8). Further, a tribunal in State |
| A might also find that it has retained jurisdiction to modify |
| the order under Subsection (a)(8) (remember both parties are |
| nonresidents) given the absence or paucity of other U.S. |
| jurisdictions with a nexus to the obligor, see Phillips v. |
| Phillips, 826 S.W.2d 746 (Tex. App. 1992). Note, however, that |
| such an action by the original issuing State must be exercised |
| with extreme restraint or the restriction on modification in |
| Section 611 will become a nullity. Concern that long-arm |
| jurisdiction will be asserted |
| in less compelling circumstances than presented in this |
| hypothetical situation is not substantiated by experience with |
| Section 201 in establishment cases filed since the enactment |
| of UIFSA. In fact, overreaching |