Maryland Family Law Maryland family law opinions and commentary

Child custody — Sole custody — Parents’ inability to communicate This appeal arises from a custody dispute in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County. After a four-day trial, the court awarded sole legal custody to the mother and ordered an ...

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Divorce — Marital property — Pension This appeal arises from a hearing on a Complaint for Interpleader in the Circuit Court for Cecil County. The trial court, sitting as the finder of fact, found in favor of Barbel Bundels (“Bundels”) ...

Child custody — Access schedule — Modification Roland Sand (“Father”) and Heather Sand (“Mother”) divorced in 2016. The Circuit Court for Baltimore City awarded them joint legal custody and shared physical custody of their minor son, A, and gave Mother ...

Divorce — Marital assets — Fraudulent concealment On July 11, 2018, appellant Lisa de Koomen (“Lisa”) filed in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County a petition to vacate an October 30, 2006 divorce judgment, alleging in substance that her former ...

Child support — Calculation — Retroactive support and arrears Maisha Jones (“Mother”), appellant, and Alonzo Jones, Jr. (“Father”), appellee, were married in May 2011, and they are the parents of three minor children. The parties separated in 2017. On March ...

Child custody — Unsupervised visitation — Record of abuse We are once again called upon to review a decision from the Circuit Court for Howard County regarding the custody and visitation of E.S.’s (“Mother”) and S.S.’s (“Father”) two minor children. ...

CINA — Termination of parental rights — Exceptional circumstances Roger C., the appellant, challenges an order of the Circuit Court for Baltimore City, sitting as a juvenile court, that terminated his parental rights to A.N.N.W. (“A.”) and granted the Baltimore ...

Estates and trusts — Fiduciary relationship — Undue influence This appeal arises from a trial in the Circuit Court for Howard County in which the trial court, sitting as the finder of fact, found in favor of Doris Williams (“Doris”), ...