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<section article="gfl" article_name="Family Law" number="10-309" title_number="10" title_name="Support in General" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Maryland Uniform Interstate Family Support Act">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A tribunal of this State that has issued a child support order consistent with the law of this State may serve as an initiating tribunal to request a tribunal of another state to enforce:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the order if the order is the controlling order and has not been modified by a tribunal of another state that assumed jurisdiction pursuant to the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>a money judgment for arrears of support and interest on the order accrued before a determination that an order of a tribunal of another state is the controlling order.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A tribunal of this State having continuing jurisdiction over a support order may act as a responding tribunal to enforce the order.</text>
  </level>
</section>
