Maryland Family Law Maryland family law opinions and commentary
Child support: Modification: Res judicata
CSA No. 2025, Sept. Term 2013. Unreported. Opinion by Woodward, J. Filed Dec. 8, 2014. Appeal from Montgomery County. Affirmed. TDR #14-1208-03, 15 pages.
Mother’s second petition to modify child support was barred by res judicata, and the court properly dismissed it without a hearing and awarded attorneys’ fees to father, where the first petition had been denied by an order filed just 33 days earlier, the second petition was identical to the first and did not claim any material change in circumstances since the first petition’s denial, and mother’s appeal of the denial was pending.
