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<section article="gfl" article_name="Family Law" number="13-107" title_number="13" title_name="Support of Parents and Adult Children" subtitle_number="1">
  <level label="a">
    <text>With the written consent of the accused individual before charging or trial, or on conviction of the individual under this subtitle, the court shall order the individual:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>to pay support:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>to the individual’s destitute adult child; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>if the destitute adult child is a public charge to the agency that is authorized by law to receive these payments; and</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>to give a bond with securities to this State, conditioned on compliance with the court’s order and any modification of the order.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>In determining the amount of support, the court shall consider the financial circumstances of the individual.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The individual shall pay the support until the destitute adult child has other means of adequate support or dies.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The court may modify the order.</text>
  </level>
</section>
