Ch. 338

LAWS OF MARYLAND

CHAPTER 338

(Senate Bill 691)

AN ACT concerning

Child Support - Retroactive Modification

FOR the purpose of authorizing a court to modify a decree for
child support for payments subsequent to the filing of a

petition for modification; prohibiting a court from

retroactively modifying a decree for child support prior to
the date of the filing of the petition for child support;
and generally relating to the modification of child support
decrees.

FOR the purpose of authorizing a court to modify a child support
award subsequent to the filing of a motion for modification;
prohibiting a court from retroactively modifying a child
support award prior to the date of the filing of the motion
for modification; and generally relating to the modification
of child support awards.

BY renumbering

Article - Family Law

Section 12-104

to be Section 12-105

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1984 Volume and 1987 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article - Family Law

Section 12-104

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1984 Volume and 1987 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section(s) 12-104 of Article - Family Law of the
Annotated Code of Maryland be renumbered to be Section(s) 12-105.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the Laws of
Maryland read as follows:

Article - Family Law

12-104.

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