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SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1987.

Approved May 14, 1987.

CHAPTER 337

(Senate Bill 277)

AN ACT concerning

Family Law - Custody and Visitation
- Certain Records

FOR the purpose of establishing guidelines for the award of
custody of minor children; defining certain terms; providing
a certain order of preference for a court in awarding
custody; providing procedures and a certain presumption in
awarding custody; authorizing a court to order the use of a
mediation service under certain circumstances; permitting a
noncustodial parent to have access to certain records of a
minor child; authorizing a court to designate a parent as a
public welfare recipient under certain circumstances; and
generally relating to custody and visitation prohibiting
denial of access to certain records by a noncustodial parent
under certain circumstances; and generally relating to a
prohibition against the denial of access to certain records
by a noncustodial parent under certain circumstances.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Family Law

Section 5-203(c)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1984 Volume and 1986 Supplement)

BY renumbering

Article - Family Law

Section 9-101, 9-102, and 9-103, respectively,
  to be Section 9-107, 9-108, and 9-109, respectively
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1984 Volume and 1986 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article - Family Law
Section 9-101 through 9-106-9-105 Section 9-104

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