Ch. 609                                    1997 LAWS OF MARYLAND

to receive certain notices under certain circumstances; authorizing a tribunal of this,
State to exercise personal jurisdiction over a nonresident under certain
circumstances; establishing that certain laws and procedures apply when a tribunal
of this State exercises personal jurisdiction over a nonresident; altering certain
procedures relating to reconciliation of child support orders issued by two or more
states; authorizing the Attorney General to order a child support agency to perform
certain duties or to perform certain services under certain circumstances; providing
that certain hearings are presumed to have been requested primarily for delay
under certain circumstances; establishing that nonparentage is not a defense to
certain proceedings under certain circumstances; prohibiting certain documents
from being excluded from evidence in certain proceedings on certain grounds with a
certain exception; authorizing a certain inference to be drawn from a refusal to testify
in certain proceedings; repealing certain requirements that certain notices be give
by first-class mail; establishing certain requirements for certain employers
concerning income withholding orders; granting a tribunal of this State jurisdiction
to enforce and modify certain out-of-state child support orders under certain
circumstances; authorizing the Child Support Enforcement Administration to
receive certain information from financial "institutions and public utilities; requiring
financial institutions, public service companies, and energy providers to provide
certain information to the Child Support Enforcement Administration under
certain circumstances: providing that the child support guidelines may be grounds
for requesting modification of a child support award under certain circumstances;
altering certain procedures for certain employing units reporting certain
information about certain employees; requiring the Child Support Enforcement

Administration to establish a State disbursement unit for collection and

disbursement of support payments in certain cases; requiring the Director of the
Child Support Enforcement Administration to make a certain report to the General
Assembly; requiring the Child Support Enforcement Administration to pay certain
fees to certain financial institutions, public service companies, and energy providers;
providing immunity from liability for certain financial institutions, employers, public
service companies, energy providers, and labor unions for disclosing certain
information to the Child Support Enforcement Administration and for taking
certain other actions in good faith; altering certain definitions; providing for a
delayed effective date for certain provisions of this Act: making certain technical
and conforming changes; and generally relating to child support and the
enforcement of child support obligations.

BY repeating and reenacting, without amendments,
Article - Family Law
Section 2-402 and 5-1039
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1991 Replacement Volume and 1996 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Family Law

Section 2-402, 5-1002, 5-1010, 5-1011, 5-1020, 5-1027, 5-1028.1, 5-1029, 5-1032,
5-1033, 5-1039, 5-1048, 10-101, 10-108, 10-111, 10-131, 10-301(h), (q), and

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