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PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor
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H.B. 993
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Family Law - Child Support - Age of Majority
FOR the purpose of altering certain provisions of law defining the age of majority to
provide that a person who has attained the age of 18 years and who is enrolled
in secondary school has a right to support and maintenance until the first of
certain events occur; establishing that this Act shall be considered a material
change in circumstances for purposes of modifying a child support order issued
before the effective date of this Act; and generally relating to child support.
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article 1 - Rules of Interpretation
Section 24
Annotated Code of Maryland
(2001 Replacement Volume)
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Family Law
Section 5-203(b)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1999 Replacement Volume and 2001 Supplement)
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:
Article 1 - Rules of Interpretation
24.
(a) (1) Except as PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH (2) OF THIS SUBSECTION OR AS
otherwise specifically provided by statute, a person eighteen years of age or more is
an adult for all purposes whatsoever and has the same legal capacity, rights, powers,
privileges, duties, liabilities, and responsibilities as prior to July 1, 1973, persons had
at twenty-one years of age, and the "age of majority" is hereby declared to be eighteen
years.
(2) A PERSON WHO HAS ATTAINED THE AGE OF 18 YEARS AND WHO IS
ENROLLED IN SECONDARY SCHOOL HAS THE RIGHT TO RECEIVE SUPPORT AND
MAINTENANCE FROM BOTH OF THE PERSON'S PARENTS UNTIL THE FIRST TO OCCUR
OF THE FOLLOWING EVENTS:
(I) THE PERSON DIES;
(II) THE PERSON MARRIES;
(III) THE PERSON IS EMANCIPATED;
(IV) THE PERSON GRADUATES FROM OR IS NO LONGER ENROLLED
IN SECONDARY SCHOOL; OR
(V) THE PERSON ATTAINS THE AGE OF 19 YEARS.
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