Md. General Assembly OKs new child support guidelines 

Posted: 7:58 pm Mon, April 12, 2010
By Staff and Wire Reports

As the General Assembly’s midnight deadline approached Monday, lawmakers passed legislation that will adjust child support guidelines for the first time since 1989. The changes to the financial guidelines courts use to set child-support guidelines will raise the scale for payments starting in October. “It’s a big step forward,” Sen. Brian E. Frosh, D-Montgomery, said ...