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<section article="gfl" article_name="Family Law" number="10-332" title_number="10" title_name="Support in General" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Maryland Uniform Interstate Family Support Act">
  <level label="a">
    <text>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:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the individual seeking the order resides outside this State; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the support enforcement agency seeking the order is located outside this State.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>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:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>a presumed father of the child;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>petitioning to have his paternity adjudicated;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>identified as the father of the child through genetic testing;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>an alleged father who has declined to submit to genetic testing;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>shown by clear and convincing evidence to be the father of the child;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>an acknowledged father as provided by § 5–306(a)(6) of this article;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>the mother of the child; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="8">
      <text>an individual who has been ordered to pay child support in a previous proceeding and the order has not been reversed or vacated.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>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.</text>
  </level>
</section>
