Maryland Family Law Maryland family law opinions and commentary

Child support — Modification — Failure to rule on exceptions Appellant, Vernita J. Ali, appeals orders of the Circuit Court for Baltimore City increasing her child support payments to appellee, Damien L. Davis, and denying her motion to modify custody, ...

Child support — Consent order — Failure to provide discovery This appeal arises from the dismissal with prejudice by the Circuit Court for Montgomery County of appellant, Caren Evans’s, motion to enforce the parties’ Consent Order against appellee, Timothy Evans, ...

Child support — Voluntary impoverishment — Motion to rescind In 2013, the Circuit Court for Montgomery County found that Igor Belyakov had voluntarily impoverished himself, imputed to him an annual income $95,000, and based on that, declined to modify his ...

Child support — Non-biological child — Equitable estoppel Of the three children born during the marriage of appellant, S.K., and appellee, K.K., S.K. is the biological father of two, but not of the third, “K”. In this appeal we are ...

Child support — Child tax deduction — Award to custodial parent This appeal emanates from divorce proceedings in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County between Ovidiu Mihai, Appellant, and Eliana Mihai, Appellee. The circuit court granted the parties an absolute ...

Child support — Abatement based on visitation state — Clarification sought While in an intimate relationship, Gillian Gilbert Wason, appellant, and Jeffrey Long, appellee, had a child together, two-year-old B., who is the subject of this appeal. When that relationship ...

Child support — Modification — Calculation This is an appeal from an order of the Circuit Court for Harford County which modified the child support obligation of Timothy Coster. Susan Coster, Mr. Coster’s former spouse, raises three issues, which we ...

Child custody — Appeal of order — Timeliness Dissatisfied with an order the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County entered regarding the custody, visitation, and child support for his minor child, Timothy Reeves, appellant (“Father”), filed two petitions attacking the ...

Alimony — Calculation — Abuse of discretion Matthew S. Wolins , M.D. (“Wolins”) and Pamela Cole, Esquire (“Cole”) are former spouses, parents of two emancipated children, and are here as cross-appellants on the issues of alimony, child support, and attorneys’ ...

ALIMONY/CHILD SUPPORT -- MOTION TO MODIFY ALIMONY AND CHILD SUPPORT -- NEED FOR A HEARING Appellant, Zachariah Garner, appeals the denial of his second motion to modify pendente lite alimony, child support, and other financial assistance (hereinafter “second motion to modify”) without a hearing in the Circuit Court for Howard County. He presents one question for our review, which we quote: Did the circuit court err when it denied appellant’s “Second Motion to Modify Pendente Lite Alimony, Child Support, and Other Financial Assistance to Wife and/or Children and for Other Relief and Request for Hearing” without an opportunity for a hearing on those issues?