# Family Law (GFL)

## Title 10. Support in General

### Subtitle 3. Maryland Uniform Interstate Family Support Act

#### Section 10-332

(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 Sec. 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 Sec. 10-317 of this subtitle.

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Md. Code Ann., Fam. Law (as displayed at mgaleg.maryland.gov, October 16, 2026)