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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 322

CHAPTER 322

(House Bill 72)

AN ACT concerning

Support Payment Arrearages - Earnings Liens

FOR the purpose of altering the procedure and circumstances
under which earnings liens are obtained; providing that
a court shall order an earnings lien when it orders a
person to make certain support payments subject to
certain requirements; providing that a certain time
after the support payment is due and unpaid certain
persons may petition the court for a lien; providing a
lien shall take effect after a certain notice and
hearing or, in the court's discretion, may take effect
immediately; establishing a certain notice and hearing
procedure; providing certain circumstances under which
the effective date of a lien may be delayed; providing
for an appeal from a hearing order providing that the
court may order a lien on petition of certain persons
under certain circumstances; providing for the amount
of a lien; providing for the filing of a petition;
providing for a show cause order and its issuance under
certain circumstances; providing for a hearing;
providing that a lien shall immediately issue if a
certain respondent does not appear at the hearing under
certain circumstances; providing that the court may
direct that a lien not take effect under certain
conditions; and generally relating to the issuance of
an earnings lien.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 16 - Chancery

Section 5B

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1981 Replacement Volume and 1981 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
read(s) as follows:

Article 16 - Chancery

5B.

(a) (1) In this section the following words have the
meanings indicated.