WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor                      Ch. 11

The capitalization errors were noted by the Computer
Division of the Department of Legislative Reference.

14-104.

A judge of any court established under the laws of the State
or the United States or any clerk of court or register of wills,
unless he is the surviving spouse of the grantor of the trust, or
is related to the grantor within the third degree, may not serve
as a trustee of any inter vivos or testamentary trust created by
an instrument and executed in Maryland by the grantor or any
trustee, administered in the [state] STATE or governed by the
laws of the [state] STATE, unless he was actually serving as a
trustee of the trust on December 31, 1969.

DRAFTER'S NOTE: This corrects capitalization errors in §
14-104 of the Estates and Trusts Article.

The capitalization errors were publishing errors,
which occurred in the printing of the 1974 Volume of
the Estates and Trusts Article.

The capitalization errors were noted by the Computer
Division of the Department of Legislative Reference.

Article - Family Law

5-4A-07.

(b) (2) A match is made when an adoptee and only 1 natural
parent of the adoptee register if:

(i) notice of the filing of the petition for
adoption or guardianship was given to the nonregistering parent
and the parent did not participate in the judicial proceedings
that terminated the parent-child relationship or declared the
parent-child relationship was nonexistent;

(ii) an adoptee and the natural mother of the
adoptee register and there is no known natural father;

(iii) the natural mother of the adoptee, or in
the case of an agency adoption, the agency submits, or the
Administration obtains from a court of competent jurisdiction in
the state of the adoptee's birth or adoption, a copy of a
judgment that declares that the identity of the natural father is
unknown;

(iv) the Administration has information that
indicates that the other natural parent is dead; [or]

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