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MD. Family Law Code Ann. §  10-317 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Family Law|Title 10 - Support in General|Subtitle 3 - Maryland Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Part III - Civil Provisions of General Application|Section 10-317 - Duties and Powers of Responding Tribunal

    (a)    When a responding tribunal of this State receives a complaint or comparable pleading from an initiating tribunal or directly pursuant to § 10–313(b) of this subtitle, it shall cause the complaint or pleading to be filed and notify the plaintiff where and when it was filed.    (b)    A responding tribunal of this State, to the extent not prohibited by other law, may do one or more of the following:        (1)    establish or enforce a support order, modify a child support order, determine the controlling child support order, or determine parentage of a child;        (2)    order an obligor to comply with a support order, specifying the amount and the manner of compliance;        (3)    order income withholding;        (4)    determine the amount of any arrearages and specify a method of payment;        (5)    enforce orders by civil or criminal contempt, or both;        (6)    set aside property for satisfaction of the support order;        (7)    place liens and order execution on the obligor’s property;        (8)    order an obligor to keep the tribunal informed of the obligor’s current residential address, electronic mail address, telephone number, employer, address of employment, and telephone number at the place of employment;        (9)    issue a bench warrant for an obligor who has failed after proper notice to appear at a hearing ordered by the tribunal and enter the bench warrant in any local and State computer systems for criminal warrants;        (10)    order the obligor to seek appropriate employment by specified methods;        (11)    award reasonable attorney’s fees and other fees and costs; and        (12)    grant any other available remedy.    (c)    A responding tribunal of this State shall include in a support order issued under this subtitle, or in the documents accompanying the order, the calculations on which the support order is based.    (d)    A responding tribunal of this State may not condition the payment of a support order issued under this subtitle upon compliance by a party with provisions for visitation.    (e)    If a responding tribunal of this State issues an order under this subtitle, the tribunal shall send a copy of the order to the plaintiff and the defendant and to the initiating tribunal, if any.    (f)    If requested to enforce a support order, arrears, or judgment or to modify a support order stated in a foreign currency, a responding tribunal of this State shall convert the amount stated in the foreign currency to the equivalent amount in dollars under the applicable official market exchange rate as publicly reported.
MD. Family Law Code Ann. §  10-318 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Family Law|Title 10 - Support in General|Subtitle 3 - Maryland Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Part III - Civil Provisions of General Application|Section 10-318 - Inappropriate Tribunal

    If a complaint or comparable pleading is received by an inappropriate tribunal of this State, the tribunal shall forward the pleading and accompanying documents to an appropriate tribunal of this State or another state and notify the plaintiff where and when the pleading was sent.
MD. Family Law Code Ann. §  10-320 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Family Law|Title 10 - Support in General|Subtitle 3 - Maryland Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Part III - Civil Provisions of General Application|Section 10-320 - Duty of Attorney General

    (a)    If the Attorney General determines that the support enforcement agency is neglecting or refusing to provide services to an individual, the Attorney General may order the agency to perform its duties under this subtitle or may provide those services directly to the individual.    (b)    The Attorney General may determine that a foreign country has established a reciprocal arrangement for child support with this State and take appropriate action for notification of the determination.
MD. Family Law Code Ann. §  10-321 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Family Law|Title 10 - Support in General|Subtitle 3 - Maryland Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Part III - Civil Provisions of General Application|Section 10-321 - Private Counsel

    An individual may employ private counsel to represent the individual in proceedings authorized by this subtitle.
MD. Family Law Code Ann. §  10-322 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Family Law|Title 10 - Support in General|Subtitle 3 - Maryland Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Part III - Civil Provisions of General Application|Section 10-322 - Duties of Child Support Administration

    (a)    The Child Support Administration is the State information agency under this subtitle.    (b)    The State information agency shall:        (1)    compile and maintain a current list, including addresses, of the tribunals in this State which have jurisdiction under this subtitle, and any support enforcement agencies in this State and transmit a copy to the state information agency of every other state;        (2)    maintain a register of names and addresses of tribunals and support enforcement agencies received from other states;        (3)    forward to the appropriate tribunal in the county in this State in which the obligee who is an individual or the obligor resides, or in which the obligor’s property is believed to be located, all documents concerning a proceeding under this subtitle received from another state or foreign country; and        (4)    obtain information concerning the location of the obligor and the obligor’s property within this State not exempt from execution, by such means as postal verification and federal or state locator services, examination of telephone directories, requests for the obligor’s address from employers, and examination of governmental records, including, to the extent not prohibited by other law, those relating to real property, vital statistics, law enforcement, taxation, motor vehicles, driver’s licenses, and Social Security.
MD. Family Law Code Ann. §  10-323 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Family Law|Title 10 - Support in General|Subtitle 3 - Maryland Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Part III - Civil Provisions of General Application|Section 10-323 - Pleadings and Accompanying Documents

    (a)    In a proceeding under this subtitle, a plaintiff seeking to establish a support order, to determine parentage of a child, or to register and modify a support order of a tribunal of another state or a foreign country must file a complaint. Unless otherwise ordered under § 10–324 of this subtitle, the complaint or accompanying documents must provide, so far as known, the name, residential address, and Social Security numbers of the obligor and the obligee or the parent and alleged parent, and the name, sex, residential address, Social Security number, and date of birth of each child for whose benefit support is sought or whose parentage is to be determined. Unless filed at the time of registration, the complaint must be accompanied by a copy of any support order known to have been issued by another tribunal. The complaint may include any other information that may assist in locating or identifying the defendant.    (b)    The complaint must specify the relief sought. The complaint and accompanying documents must conform substantially with the requirements imposed by the forms mandated by federal law for use in cases filed by a support enforcement agency.
MD. Family Law Code Ann. §  10-324 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Family Law|Title 10 - Support in General|Subtitle 3 - Maryland Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Part III - Civil Provisions of General Application|Section 10-324 - Nondisclosure of Information in Exceptional Circumstances

    If a party alleges in an affidavit or a pleading under oath that the health, safety, or liberty of a party or child would be jeopardized by disclosure of specific identifying information, that information shall be sealed and may not be disclosed to the other party or the public.  After a hearing in which a tribunal takes into consideration the health, safety, or liberty of the party or child, the tribunal may order disclosure of information that the tribunal determines to be in the interest of justice.
MD. Family Law Code Ann. §  10-325 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Family Law|Title 10 - Support in General|Subtitle 3 - Maryland Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Part III - Civil Provisions of General Application|Section 10-325 - Cost and Fees

    (a)    The plaintiff may not be required to pay a filing fee or other costs.    (b)    If an obligee prevails, a responding tribunal of this State may assess against an obligor filing fees, reasonable attorney’s fees, other costs, and necessary travel and other reasonable expenses incurred by the obligee and the obligee’s witnesses. The tribunal may not assess fees, costs, or expenses against the obligee or the support enforcement agency of either the initiating or the responding state or foreign country, except as provided by other law. Attorney’s fees may be taxed as costs, and may be ordered paid directly to the attorney, who may enforce the order in the attorney’s own name. Payment of support owed to the obligee has priority over fees, costs, and expenses.    (c)    The tribunal shall order the payment of costs and reasonable attorney’s fees if it determines that a hearing was requested primarily for delay. In a proceeding under Part VI of this subtitle a hearing is presumed to have been requested primarily for delay if a registered support order is confirmed or enforced without change.
MD. Family Law Code Ann. §  10-326 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Family Law|Title 10 - Support in General|Subtitle 3 - Maryland Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Part III - Civil Provisions of General Application|Section 10-326 - Limited Immunity of Plaintiff

    (a)    Participation by a plaintiff in a proceeding under this subtitle before a responding tribunal, whether in person, by private attorney, or through services provided by the support enforcement agency, does not confer personal jurisdiction over the plaintiff in another proceeding.    (b)    A plaintiff is not amenable to service of civil process while physically present in this State to participate in a proceeding under this subtitle.    (c)    The immunity granted by this section does not extend to civil litigation based on acts unrelated to a proceeding under this subtitle committed by a party while present in this State to participate in the proceeding.
MD. Family Law Code Ann. §  10-327 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Family Law|Title 10 - Support in General|Subtitle 3 - Maryland Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Part III - Civil Provisions of General Application|Section 10-327 - Nonparentage as Defense

    A party whose parentage of a child has been previously determined by or pursuant to law may not plead nonparentage as a defense to a proceeding under this subtitle.
MD. Family Law Code Ann. §  10-328 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Family Law|Title 10 - Support in General|Subtitle 3 - Maryland Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Part III - Civil Provisions of General Application|Section 10-328 - Special Rules of Evidence and Procedure

    (a)    The physical presence of a nonresident party who is an individual in a tribunal of this State is not required for the establishment, enforcement, or modification of a support order or the rendition of a judgment determining parentage of a child.    (b)    An affidavit, a document substantially complying with federally mandated forms, or a document incorporated by reference in any of them, which would not be excluded under the hearsay rule if given in person, is admissible in evidence if given under penalty of perjury by a party or witness residing outside this State.    (c)    A copy of the record of child support payments certified as a true copy of the original by the custodian of the record may be forwarded to a responding tribunal. The copy is evidence of facts asserted in it, and is admissible to show whether payments were made.    (d)    Copies of bills for testing for parentage of a child, and for prenatal and postnatal health care of the mother and child, furnished to the adverse party at least 10 days before trial, are admissible in evidence to prove the amount of the charges billed and that the charges were reasonable, necessary, and customary.    (e)    Documentary evidence transmitted from outside this State to a tribunal of this State by telephone, telecopier, or other electronic means that do not provide an original record may not be excluded from evidence on an objection based on the means of transmission.    (f)    In a proceeding under this subtitle, a tribunal of this State shall permit a party or witness residing outside this State to be deposed or to testify under penalty of perjury by telephone, audiovisual means, or other electronic means at a designated tribunal or other location. A tribunal of this State shall cooperate with other tribunals in designating an appropriate location for the deposition or testimony.    (g)    If a party called to testify at a civil hearing refuses to answer on the ground that the testimony may be self–incriminating, the trier of fact may draw an adverse inference from the refusal.    (h)    Laws attaching a privilege against the disclosure of communications between spouses do not apply to proceedings under this subtitle.    (i)    The defense of immunity based on the relationship of husband and wife or parent and child does not apply in a proceeding under this subtitle.    (j)    A voluntary acknowledgment of paternity, certified as a true copy, is admissible to establish parentage of the child.
MD. Family Law Code Ann. §  10-329 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Family Law|Title 10 - Support in General|Subtitle 3 - Maryland Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Part III - Civil Provisions of General Application|Section 10-329 - Communications Between Tribunals

    A tribunal of this State may communicate with a tribunal outside this State in a record, or by telephone, electronic mail, or other means, to obtain information concerning the laws, the legal effect of a judgment, decree, or order of that tribunal, and the status of a proceeding. A tribunal of this State may furnish similar information by similar means to a tribunal outside this State.
MD. Family Law Code Ann. §  10-330 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Family Law|Title 10 - Support in General|Subtitle 3 - Maryland Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Part III - Civil Provisions of General Application|Section 10-330 - Assistance With Discovery

    A tribunal of this State may:        (1)    request a tribunal outside this State to assist in obtaining discovery; and        (2)    upon request, compel a person over which it has jurisdiction to respond to a discovery order issued by a tribunal outside this State.
MD. Family Law Code Ann. §  10-331 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Family Law|Title 10 - Support in General|Subtitle 3 - Maryland Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Part III - Civil Provisions of General Application|Section 10-331 - Receipt and Disbursement of Payments

    (a)    A support enforcement agency or tribunal of this State shall disburse promptly any amounts received pursuant to a support order, as directed by the order. The agency or tribunal shall furnish to a requesting party or tribunal of another state or a foreign country a certified statement by the custodian of the record of the amounts and dates of all payments received.    (b)    If the obligor, the obligee who is an individual, and the child do not reside in this State, on request from the support enforcement agency of this State or another state, the support enforcement agency of this State or a tribunal of this State shall:        (1)    direct that the support payment be made to the support enforcement agency in the state in which the obligee is receiving services; and        (2)    issue and send to the obligor’s employer a conforming income–withholding order or an administrative notice of change of payee, reflecting the redirected payments.    (c)    The support enforcement agency of this State receiving redirected payments from another state pursuant to a law similar to subsection (b) of this section shall furnish to a requesting party or tribunal of the other state a certified statement by the custodian of the record of the amount and dates of all payments received.
MD. Family Law Code Ann. §  10-332 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Family Law|Title 10 - Support in General|Subtitle 3 - Maryland Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Part IV - Establishment of Support Order or Determination of Parentage|Section 10-332 - Complaint to Establish Support Order

    (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.
MD. Family Law Code Ann. §  10-332.1 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Family Law|Title 10 - Support in General|Subtitle 3 - Maryland Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Part IV - Establishment of Support Order or Determination of Parentage|Section 10-332.1 - Authority of Tribunal of This State

    A tribunal of this State authorized to determine parentage of a child may serve as a responding tribunal in a proceeding to determine parentage of a child brought under this subtitle or a law or procedure substantially similar to this subtitle.
MD. Family Law Code Ann. §  10-333 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Family Law|Title 10 - Support in General|Subtitle 3 - Maryland Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Part V - Enforcement of Support Order Without Registration|Section 10-333 - Recognition of Income Withholding Order of Another State

    An income withholding order issued in another state may be sent by or on behalf of the obligee, or by the support enforcement agency, to the person defined as the obligor’s employer under Subtitle 1 of this title without first filing a request for service of the order or comparable pleading or registering the order with a tribunal of this State.
MD. Family Law Code Ann. §  10-334 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Family Law|Title 10 - Support in General|Subtitle 3 - Maryland Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Part V - Enforcement of Support Order Without Registration|Section 10-334 - Employer's Compliance With Income Withholding Order of Another State

    (a)    Upon receipt of an income withholding order, the obligor’s employer shall immediately provide a copy of the order to the obligor.    (b)    The employer shall treat an income withholding order issued in another state which appears regular on its face as if it had been issued by a tribunal of this State.    (c)    Except as otherwise provided in subsection (d) of this section and § 10–335 of this subtitle, the employer shall withhold and distribute the funds as directed in the withholding order by complying with terms of the order which specify:        (1)    the duration and the amount of periodic payments of current child support, stated as a sum certain;        (2)    the person designated to receive payment and the address to which the payments are to be forwarded;        (3)    medical support, whether in the form of periodic cash payment, stated as a sum certain, or ordering the obligor to provide health insurance coverage for the child under a policy available through the obligor’s employment;        (4)    the amount of periodic payments of fees and costs for a support enforcement agency, the issuing tribunal, and the obligee’s attorney, stated as sums certain; and        (5)    the amount of periodic payments of arrearages and interest on arrearages, stated as sums certain.    (d)    An employer shall comply with the law of the state of the obligor’s principal place of employment for withholding from income with respect to:        (1)    the employer’s fee for processing an income withholding order;        (2)    the maximum amount permitted to be withheld from the obligor’s income; and        (3)    the time periods within which the employer must implement the withholding order and forward the child support payment.
MD. Family Law Code Ann. §  10-335 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Family Law|Title 10 - Support in General|Subtitle 3 - Maryland Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Part V - Enforcement of Support Order Without Registration|Section 10-335 - Compliance With Multiple Income Withholding Orders

    If an obligor’s employer receives two or more income withholding orders with respect to the earnings of the same obligor, the employer satisfies the terms of the orders if the employer complies with the law of the state of the obligor’s principal place of employment to establish the priorities for withholding and allocating income withheld for two or more child support obligees.
MD. Family Law Code Ann. §  10-336 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Family Law|Title 10 - Support in General|Subtitle 3 - Maryland Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Part V - Enforcement of Support Order Without Registration|Section 10-336 - Immunity From Civil Liability

    An employer that complies with an income withholding order issued in another state in accordance with this subtitle is not subject to civil liability to an individual or agency with regard to the employer’s withholding of child support from the obligor’s income.
MD. Family Law Code Ann. §  10-337 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Family Law|Title 10 - Support in General|Subtitle 3 - Maryland Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Part V - Enforcement of Support Order Without Registration|Section 10-337 - Penalties for Noncompliance

    An employer that willfully fails to comply with an income withholding order issued in another state and received for enforcement is subject to the same penalties that may be imposed for noncompliance with an order issued by a tribunal of this State.