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<section article="gfl" article_name="Family Law" number="9.5-305" title_number="9.5" title_name="Maryland Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Enforcement">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A child custody determination issued by a court of another state may be registered in this State, with or without a simultaneous request for enforcement, by sending to the appropriate court in this State:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>a letter or other document requesting registration;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>two copies, including one certified copy, of the determination sought to be registered, and a statement under penalty of perjury that to the best of the knowledge and belief of the person seeking registration the order has not been modified; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>except as otherwise provided in § 9.5-209 of this title, the name and address of the person seeking registration and any parent or person acting as a parent who has been awarded custody or visitation in the child custody determination sought to be registered.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>On receipt of the documents required by subsection (a) of this section, the registering court shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>cause the determination to be filed as a foreign judgment, together with one copy of any accompanying documents and information, regardless of their form; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>serve notice upon the persons named in subsection (a)(3) of this section and provide them with an opportunity to contest the registration in accordance with this section.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The notice required by subsection (b)(2) of this section shall state that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>a registered determination is enforceable as of the date of the registration in the same manner as a determination issued by a court of this State;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>any request for a hearing to contest the validity of the registered determination shall be made within 20 days after service of notice; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>failure to contest the registration will result in confirmation of the child custody determination and preclude further contest of that determination with respect to any matter that could have been asserted.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A person seeking to contest the validity of a registered order shall request a hearing within 20 days after service of the notice.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>At that hearing, the court shall confirm the registered order unless the person contesting registration establishes that:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the issuing court did not have jurisdiction under Subtitle 2 of this title;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the child custody determination sought to be registered has been vacated, stayed, or modified by a court having jurisdiction to do so under Subtitle 2 of this title; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>the person contesting registration was entitled to notice, but notice was not given in accordance with the standards of § 9.5-107 of this title, in the proceedings before the court that issued the order for which registration is sought.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>If a timely request for a hearing to contest the validity of the registration is not made, the registration is confirmed as a matter of law and the person requesting registration and all persons served shall be notified of the confirmation.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>Confirmation of a registered order, whether by operation of law or after notice and hearing, precludes further contest of the order with respect to any matter that could have been asserted at the time of registration.</text>
  </level>
</section>
