HARRY HUGHES, Governor                                 959

a third party, or property excluded by valid agreement or
property directly traceable to any of these sources.

3-6A-02. Exercise of powers after foreign divorce or
annulment.

A Maryland Court may exercise the powers [pursuant to]
CONFERRED BY this subtitle after a divorce or annulment has
been granted by a court of a foreign jurisdiction, if one of
the parties was domiciled in this State when the foreign
proceedings were commenced, and the foreign court lacked or
did not exercise personal jurisdiction over the party
domiciled in this State or jurisdiction over the property at
issue.

3-6A-03. Personal Property.

(a)   When granting a limited or absolute divorce, or
annulment, the court may resolve any dispute between the
spouses with respect to the ownership of personal property.
However, the court may not transfer THE ownership of
personal property from one spouse to the other.

(b)  In accordance with the court's determination of
the ownership of personal property the court may:

(1)  Grant a decree which states what the
ownership interest of each spouse is; and

(2)  As to any jointly owned property, order a
partition or sale in lieu of partition and a division of the
proceeds.

3-6A-04. Real Property.

(b) In accordance with the court's determination of
the ownership of real property, the court may:

(1)  Grant a decree which states what the
ownership interest of each spouse is; and

(2)  As to any jointly [held] OWNED property,
order a partition or sale in lieu of partition and a
division of the proceeds.

3-6A-06. Family home, and family use personal property

(a) The authority conferred by this section shall be
exercised to permit the children of the family to continue
to live in the environment and community which is familial
to them and to permit the continued occupancy of the family
home and possession and use of family use personal property
by a spouse with custody of a minor child who has a need to
live in that home However the [continued] use, occupancy,
and possession of the family home may not be continued under
the authority conferred by this section if the spouse having
the [continued] use, occupancy, and possession remarries;