Maryland Family Law Maryland family law opinions and commentary

Child custody — Motion to modify — Past abuse Nikia Nickerson (“Mother”), appellant, and Mark Regis (“Father”), appellee, are the parents of a minor son, “M.,” born April 8, 2011. At the time that the Mother and Father divorced in ...

Child support — Contempt — Right to public defender The Circuit Court for Charles County found Damian Darnell Chapman, appellant, in constructive civil contempt for failure to comply with a court order to pay child support and ordered that the ...

Probate — Sanctions — Attorney’s fees Debbie K. Souder, the appellant, asks this Court to reverse an award of attorneys’ fees and expenses entered by the Circuit Court for Montgomery County against her and in favor of Daphne E. Souder, ...

CINA — Change in permanency play — From reunification to adoption The child at the center of this case, A’r., was declared a Child in Need of Assistance (“CINA”) in 2017 along with his brother, A. Appellant, Ms. G. (or ...

Child custody — Motion to modify — Mootness Margo Liba Katzper (“Mother”) and Yehuda Alon Brody (“Father”) were divorced in 2002 and are the biological parents of one child, Y.B., who was born on August 24, 2001. In November 2018, ...

Trusts and estates — Discovery violation — Sanction Appellant, Frank Bucolo (Frank) sued his sister, appellee, Diana Bucolo-Van Dyke (Diana), as trustee of a trust that their father, Salvatore Bucolo (Salvatore), created in 2001. The trust provided that when Salvatore ...

Child support — Motion to modify — Attorney’s fees When this child support dispute was last before us, we remanded it to the Circuit Court for Frederick County, without affirming or reversing, to determine what child support should have been ...

CINA — Termination of parental rights — Effect on siblings This case is before us on appeal from an order of the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, sitting as a juvenile court, terminating the parental rights of S.M. (“Mother”) as ...

Divorce — Alimony — Upward modification This appeal involves a dispute between appellant, Clayton H. Evans, and his former wife, Patricia L. Evans (“Ms. Evans”). Litigation between the two commenced on August 5, 2011, when, after a long marriage, Ms. ...