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<section article="gfl" article_name="Family Law" number="5-703" title_number="5" title_name="Children" subtitle_number="7" subtitle_name="Child Abuse and Neglect">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The provisions of this subtitle are in addition to and not in substitution for the provisions of Title 3, Subtitle 8 of the Courts Article.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Except as otherwise provided in § 5–705.1 of this subtitle, the provisions of this subtitle apply only to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>suspected abuse or neglect that is alleged to have occurred in this State; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>suspected abuse or neglect of a child who lives in this State, regardless of where the suspected abuse or neglect is alleged to have occurred.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
