Maryland Family Law Maryland family law opinions and commentary

Child support — Child-support guidelines — Need for explanation of downward departure The Circuit Court for Baltimore County ordered the father to pay a lesser amount of child support than was recommended by the Child Support Guidelines and did not ...

Child support — Motion for modification — Motion for reconsideration Anthony Smith, appellant, filed a petition for modification of child support in the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County. At the subsequent hearing, Smith withdrew his petition. He then filed ...

Child custody — Limited visitation — Intensity of child’s travel Following a trial in the Circuit Court for Queen Anne’s County to determine custody and child support, the court granted primary physical custody of the minor child, O., to appellee, ...

Child support — Child support guidelines — Sufficiency of the evidence Nathaniel M. Costley, Jr., (“Nathaniel”), the now 14-year-old minor whose custody is the subject of this appeal, was born on March 16, 2002, in Carroll County. The pro-se appellant, ...

Divorce — Marital home — Valuation The record is clear: Lance Felactu has behaved abominably in his divorce. He has hidden money, refused to make required payments, and thumbed his nose at the court. The trial court sought to remedy ...

Child support — Modification — Material change of circumstance This case involves the validity of an order from the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County modifying an award of child support based upon a material change of circumstance. Read the ...

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 ...