Ch. 589

LAWS OF MARYLAND

divorce under certain circumstances; authorizing a court to
modify certain deeds, agreements, or settlements that are
incorporated into certain judgments of divorce; providing
for application of this Act; and generally relating to the
enforcement of deeds, agreements, or settlements.

FOR the purpose of clarifying that a court may enforce by power
of contempt the provisions of a deed, agreement, or
settlement that is merged into a divorce decree; clarifying
that a court may enhance by power of contempt or as an
independent contract not superseded by the divorce decree
the provisions of a deed, agreement, or settlement that
contains language that the deed, decree or settlement is
incorporated but not merged into a divorce decree; providing
for the application of this Act; and generally relating to
the enforcement of deeds, agreements, and settlements.

8-103.

(a) The court may modify any provision of a deed,

agreement, or settlement with respect to the care, custody,
education, or support of any minor child of the spouses, if the
modification would be in the best interests of the child.

(b) The court may modify any provision of a deed,
agreement, or settlement with respect to spousal support executed
on or after January 1, 1976, regardless of how the provision is
stated, unless there is a provision that specifically states that
the provisions with respect to spousal support are not subject to
any court modification.

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BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,

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Section 8-103

Annotated Code of Maryland
(1984 Volume and 1988 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article - Family Law
Section 8-103.1 8-105
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1984 Volume and 1988 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
Maryland, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

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