Jeffrey Metheny v. Garrett County Department of Social Services, Et Al.

Child support: paternity: notice and opportunity to be heard

CSA No. 1608, Sept. Term 2011. Unreported. Opinion by Woodward, J. Filed July 17, 2013. Appeal from Garrett County. Vacated and remanded. 12 Pages.

While appellant waived his claim of lack of personal jurisdiction by failing to raise it before he filed a motion to modify child support, the evidence established that the trial court violated his due process rights in 2007 and 2009 by entering paternity and child support orders without affording him reasonable notice and opportunity to be heard.

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