Ch. 609

1997 LAWS OF MARYLAND

issued by a tribunal of this State, but the registered order may be modified only if the
requirements of § [10-341] 10-350 of this subtitle (Modification of child support order
of another state) have been met.

[10-341.] 10-350.

(a)     After a child support order issued in another state has been registered in this
State, the responding tribunal of this State may modify that order only if § 10-352 OF THIS
SUBTITLE DOES NOT APPLY AND, after notice and hearing, it finds that:

(1)     the following requirements are met:

(i) the child, the individual obligee, and the obligor do not reside in
the issuing state;

(ii) a plaintiff who is a nonresident of this State seeks modification;
and

(iii) the defendant is subject to the personal jurisdiction of the tribunal
of this State; or

(2)     [an individual party or] the child OR A PARTY WHO IS AN
INDIVIDUAL is subject to the personal jurisdiction of the tribunal OF THIS STATE and all
of the [individual] parties WHO ARE INDIVIDUALS have filed [a] written [consent]
CONSENTS in the issuing tribunal [providing that] FOR a tribunal of this State [may]
TO modify the support order and assume continuing, exclusive jurisdiction over the order.
HOWEVER, IF THE ISSUING STATE IS A FOREIGN JURISDICTION THAT HAS NOT
ENACTED A LAW OR ESTABLISHED PROCEDURES SUBSTANTIALLY SIMILAR TO THE
PROCEDURES UNDER THIS SUBTITLE, THE CONSENT OTHERWISE REQUIRED OF AN
INDIVIDUAL RESIDING IN THIS STATE IS NOT REQUIRED FOR THE TRIBUNAL TO
ASSUME JURISDICTION TO MODIFY THE CHILD SUPPORT ORDER.

(b)     Modification of a registered child support order is subject to the same
requirements, procedures, and defenses that apply to the modification of an order issued
by a tribunal of this State, and the order may be enforced and satisfied in the same
manner.

(c)     A tribunal of this State may not modify any aspect PROVISION of a child
support order that may not be modified under the law of the issuing state. IF TWO OR
MORE TRIBUNALS HAVE ISSUED CHILD SUPPORT ORDERS FOR THE SAME OBLIGOR
AND CHILD, THE ORDER THAT CONTROLS AND MUST BE SO RECOGNIZED UNDER
THE PROVISIONS OF § 10-310 OF THIS SUBTITLE ESTABLISHES THE ASPECTS
PROVISIONS OF THE SUPPORT ORDER WHICH ARE NONMODIFIABLE.

(d)     On issuance of an order modifying a child support order issued in another
state, a tribunal of this State becomes the tribunal of continuing, exclusive jurisdiction.

[(e) Within 30 days after issuance of a modified child support order, the party
obtaining the modification shall file a certified copy of the order with the issuing tribunal
which had continuing, exclusive jurisdiction over the earlier order, and in each tribunal in
which the party knows that earlier order has been registered.]

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