Section 8-210 - Family home; family use personal property - Termination of order or decree. - Maryland Statutes

§ 8-210. Family home; family use personal property - Termination of order or decree.
 

(a)  Time limitation.-  

(1) In any order or decree, or any modification of an order or decree, a provision that concerns the family home or family use personal property shall terminate no later than 3 years after the date on which the court grants an annulment or a limited or absolute divorce. 

(2) The 3-year limitation set out in paragraph (1) of this subsection applies to a limited divorce notwithstanding the subsequent granting of an absolute divorce. 

(b)  Remarriage of party with possession or use of property.- Subject to the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, in any order or decree, or any modification of an order or decree, a provision that concerns the family home or family use personal property shall terminate when the party with the possession or use of the property remarries. 

(c)  Treatment of property.- When a provision that concerns the family home or family use personal property terminates, the court shall treat the property as marital property if the property qualifies as marital property, and adjust the equities and rights of the parties concerning the property as set out in § 8-205 of this subtitle. 
 

[CJ § 3-6A-06; 1984, ch. 296, § 2.]