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<section article="gfl" article_name="Family Law" number="13-108" title_number="13" title_name="Support of Parents and Adult Children" subtitle_number="1">
  <level label="a">
    <text>An individual who fails to give bond after being ordered to give bond under § 13–107 of this title is subject to imprisonment until bond is given, not exceeding 1 year.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>In consideration of the financial circumstances of the accused individual, and on the individual’s entering into a recognizance, the court may:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>suspend imposition of the sentence for failure to give bond; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>place the individual on probation for the period that the individual is required to pay support.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The recognizance ordered by the court shall be:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>in the amount that the court directs, with or without security; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>on the conditions that:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>if the individual is summoned to appear before the court, the individual shall appear; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the individual shall pay support as ordered by the court.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>If an individual fails to pay support under the court’s order, the court may revoke the probation and impose the sentence for failure to give bond.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>The court may order that any forfeited recognizance be paid:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>to the individual’s destitute adult child; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>if the individual’s destitute adult child is a public charge, to the agency that is authorized by law to receive the forfeited recognizance.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
