Section 10-332 - Complaint to establish support order. - Maryland Statutes

§ 10-332. Complaint to establish support order.
 

(a)  No previous support order.- If a support order entitled to recognition under this subtitle has not been issued, a responding tribunal of this State may issue a support order if: 

(1) the individual seeking the order resides in another state; or 

(2) the support enforcement agency seeking the order is located in another state. 

(b)  Temporary child support order.- 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)  Other orders.- 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. 
 

[1996, ch. 667, § 2; 1997, ch. 609, § 1; 2008, ch. 522.]