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<section article="gfl" article_name="Family Law" number="10-140" title_number="10" title_name="Support in General" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Civil and Criminal Enforcement">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Unpaid child support, due under an order requiring payments through a support enforcement agency, constitutes a lien in favor of the obligee on all real and personal property of the obligor.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Administration shall notify the obligor and obligee of any child support lien established under paragraph (1) of this subsection.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A child support lien established under subsection (a) of this section arises on the date of notice that the support is due and continues to the date on which the child support lien is:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>satisfied;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>released by the Administration because the child support lien is:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>unenforceable; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>uncollectible; or</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>released by order of the court.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
