Maryland Family Law Maryland family law opinions and commentary

Child support — Calculation — Daycare expenses This appeal stems from orders entered by the Circuit Court for Howard County denying exceptions to a magistrate’s recommendations and increasing the child support obligation of Ivo Melcak, appellant, towards the care of ...

Child support — Calculation — Voluntary impoverishment After a three-day bench trial, the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County granted Stacey and Joel Godfrey, respectively appellant and appellee, (hereafter, “Mother” and “Father”), an absolute divorce. Prior to trial, the parties ...

Child support — Calculation — Private school education On February 4, 2020, Jessica Bafford (“Mother”), appellant, and Kelly Bafford (“Father”), appellee, were granted a Judgment of Absolute Divorce in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County. The court awarded Father sole ...

Child support — Wage garnishment order — Motion to vacate In this appeal from a custody action in the Circuit Court for Harford County, Alvin K. Holland, Jr., appellant, challenges the denial of his motion for various relief related to ...

Child support — Constructive civil contempt — Right to counsel 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 ...

Child support — Motion to modify — Extraordinary medical expenses Shaila E. Settles Lewis (“Mother”), appellant, and David L. Lewis (“Father”), appellee, are parents who divorced and obtained a child support and custody order in 2016 concerning their two minor ...

Child support — Arrearage — Unreimbursed medical expenses On remand from an en banc appeal on the limited issue of unreimbursed medical expenses, the circuit court for Anne Arundel found that Christopher Paul Doherty “(Appellee”) owed $10,469.89 in unreimbursed medical ...

Child support — Modification — Failure to provide income documentation Dean Lake, appellant, and Gabriel McConnell, appellee, are the parents of one minor child. The present appeal, noted by Mr. Lake, is taken from a March 2019 order entered in ...

Child support — Arrearage — Office of Child Support Enforcement This is an appeal from an order of the Circuit Court for Montgomery County denying exceptions filed by appellant and adopting the Magistrate’s recommendations. Appellant timely appealed and presents the ...

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 ...