Maryland Family Law Maryland family law opinions and commentary

Child custody — Modification — Notice Sayo Ebrahim (“Mother”), the appellant, challenges an order of the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County holding her in civil contempt; modifying physical and legal custody of her minor child (“Child”) with ex-husband Taju ...

Child custody — Notice of appeal — Timeliness Alvin Pye, Jr., appellant, and Shaneka Aleong, appellee, are the co-parents of one minor child. On October 7, 2019, the Circuit Court for Baltimore County entered an order which, in pertinent part, ...

Divorce — Marital home — Use and possession Appellant, Kimberly Bartenfelder (Mother), and appellee, Thomas Bartenfelder (Father), have been involved in ongoing, protracted divorce and custody proceedings in the Circuit Court for Harford County since 2015. This appeal stems from ...

Divorce — Marital home — Use and possession On May 30, 2019 Jeanette Blair (“Appellee”) filed a complaint for Absolute Divorce. Leon Blair, Sr. (“Appellant”) filed his answer to the complaint as well as an Answer to Defendant/Counter-Plaintiff’s Counter-Complaint for ...

Protective order — Stalking — Sufficiency of evidence Michael Chavira appeals from a judgment of the Circuit Court for Harford County which granted Erin Taylor’s petition for a protective order against him. He presents four issues, which we have reworded ...

Child support — Calculation — Voluntary impoverishment Sher Ali Chaudry, the appellant, challenges an order of the Circuit Court for Baltimore County granting his wife, Nantara Chaudry1 , an absolute divorce, a marital award, joint legal and shared physical custody ...

Child support — Calculation — Bonus income Charles H. Edwards, IV (“Father”) and Alicia Miller (“Mother”) are the parents of one child, I.M., who was born in 2007. In 2008, the Circuit Court for Howard County entered an order requiring ...

Divorce — Marital property — Retirement accounts Theresa A. Jordan, appellant, and, Paul Nichols Romani, appellee, were granted a Judgment of Absolute Divorce on May 23, 2017, in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County. A written settlement agreement between the ...

Divorce — Divorce decree — Final judgment In his quest to undo a provision in a 2011 separation agreement that required him to pay his former spouse one-third of any net proceeds he received from a personal injury case, in ...