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Md. Code Ann., Fam. Law § 10-332

Known as the Maryland Uniform Interstate Family Support Act

The act spans §§ 10-301 to 10-371 (77 sections).

(a) If a support order entitled to recognition under this subtitle has not been issued, a responding tribunal of this State with personal jurisdiction over the parties may issue a support order if:

(1) the individual seeking the order resides outside this State; or

(2) the support enforcement agency seeking the order is located outside this State.

(b) The tribunal may issue a temporary child support order if the tribunal determines that such an order is appropriate and the individual ordered to pay is:

(1) a presumed father of the child;

(2) petitioning to have his paternity adjudicated;

(3) identified as the father of the child through genetic testing;

(4) an alleged father who has declined to submit to genetic testing;

(5) shown by clear and convincing evidence to be the father of the child;

(6) an acknowledged father as provided by § 5–306(a)(6) of this article;

(7) the mother of the child; or

(8) an individual who has been ordered to pay child support in a previous proceeding and the order has not been reversed or vacated.

(c) Upon finding, after notice and opportunity to be heard, that an obligor owes a duty of support, the tribunal shall issue a support order directed to the obligor and may issue other orders pursuant to § 10–317 of this subtitle.

Official source: Maryland General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Maryland statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.