Maryland Family Law Maryland family law opinions and commentary

Child support — Right to due process — Restraint on personal liberty In 2012, the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County entered an order requiring Shane Seay, appellant, to make monthly child support payments. In 2020, Mr. Seay filed a ...

Child support — Attorney’s fees — Financial status of each party In this appeal from a domestic family action in the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County, Daniel E. Lewis, appellant, challenges the court’s award of attorney’s fees to Marie ...

Child support — Child support enforcement — Paternity test request This is an appeal from a judgment without prejudice entered by the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County. Appellee, Prince George’s County Office of Child Support Enforcement, filed a complaint ...

Child support — Motion to modify — Judicial discretion The Circuit Court for Montgomery County denied a father’s motion to modify his child support obligations. Thirteen days later, the father filed what was, in substance, a revisory motion under Md. ...

Child support — Appeal — Final judgment rule In an order entered on January 7, 2021, the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County granted the parties an absolute divorce, reaffirmed a prior order regarding custody of the parties’ two minor ...

Child support — Child Support Enforcement — Final judgment rule The pro se appellant in this case is Herbert Sowe. The appellees are Ronnie Turner (“Ms. Turner”) and the Baltimore County Office of Child Support Enforcement (“BCOCSE”). The appellees have ...

Child support — Destitute adult child — Calculation Appellant Michael Joseph Raeder was ordered by the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County to make a monthly child support payment for his destitute adult child in the amount of $1,114. In ...

Child support — Guidelines — Deviation Kristin Barker (now Kristin Estes) [“Mother”] and Steven Bland [“Father”] are the parents of a minor child, who was born in 2007. In 2011, Mother filed a petition in the Circuit Court for Carroll ...

Child support — Arrearage — Calculation This is an appeal from an Order of the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County that awarded legal and physical custody of the two minor children of the parties, along with child support, to ...

Child support — Calculation — Private school tuition This case is before us on appeal from a child custody order of the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County. Kari Sherbert (“Mother”) moved to modify child support in the circuit court, ...