PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor

Ch. 609

(3) A STOCK DISTRIBUTION OR SPIN-OFF OF SHARES OF STOCK OF A
CORPORATION THAT HAD BEEN OWNED OR ACQUIRED BY THE DISTRIBUTING
CORPORATION.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
October 1, 1997.

Approved May 22, 1997.

CHAPTER 609

(Senate Bill 636)

AN ACT concerning

Child Support - Enforcement Procedures

FOR the purpose of requiring applicants an applicant for a marriage license to disclose
their the Social Security numbers number of each party; clarifying that a putative
father may file a paternity action; repealing provisions of the paternity laws
permitting a defendant to request a jury trial; granting certain powers to the Child
Support Enforcement Administration in a paternity proceeding; requiring certain
notices to unmarried mothers and fathers before they sign an affidavit of parentage;
providing for the effect of an affidavit of parentage; establishing procedures for
rescission of an affidavit of parentage; requiring the State's Attorney to notify the
parties in writing before conducting a pretrial inquiry in a paternity proceeding;
authorizing the Child Support Enforcement Administration to file a motion for to
require request certain individuals to submit to a blood or genetic test under certain
circumstances; requiring the Child Support Administration to provide certain notice to
obligors under certain circumstances; requiring the court to issue a temporary support
order under certain circumstances; authorizing the admission into evidence of
certain records under certain circumstances and establishing that certain records
constitute prima facie evidence of certain expenses; requiring certain reports to be
made by financial institutions to report certain information to the Child Support
Enforcement Administration under certain circumstances; authorizing the Child
Support Enforcement Administration to require a parent to pay support through a
support enforcement agency under certain circumstances; authorizing the Child
Support Enforcement Administration to issue subpoenas to compel the production
of documents; authorizing certain licenses to engage in certain businesses,
occupations, and professions, and recreational activities to be suspended or denied
for a failure to pay child support under certain circumstances; establishing
procedures for certain appeals; requiring certain licensing authorities to report
certain information to the Child Support Enforcement Administration; authorizing
the Child Support Enforcement Administration to serve earnings withholding
orders on employers under certain circumstances; creating certain liens establishing
that unpaid child support constitutes a lien against all real and persona] property of an
obligor failing to pay for unpaid child support; providing for the effect and
. enforcement of certain liens; requiring certain parties to a child support proceeding

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