2013 Maryland Code
FAMILY LAW
§ 5-1006 - Limitations


MD Fam L Code § 5-1006 (2013) What's This?

§5-1006.

(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (d) of this section, a proceeding to establish paternity of a child under this subtitle may be begun at any time before the child’s eighteenth birthday.

(b) A paternity proceeding under this subtitle may be begun during pregnancy.

(c) A complaint under this subtitle is not barred because the child born out of wedlock was conceived or born outside this State.

(d) A proceeding to establish paternity of a child who is dependent on a parent because of a mental or physical infirmity may be begun at any time before the child’s twenty-first birthday.

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