Maryland Family Law Maryland family law opinions and commentary

Child support — Motion to modify — Failure to provide financial information In this appeal from a child support, custody, and visitation action in the Circuit Court for Howard County, Sil Mudsi, appellant, challenges the court’s dismissal of his amended ...

Child support — Unpaid child support — Interest The issue in this case is whether the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County, the Honorable Krystal Quinn Alves presiding, erred when it denied Cheryl Lynne Tarver’s request for interest on an ...

Child support — Calculation — Imputed income This appeal concerns Appellant Ricardo Dillon’s failure to pay child support to Appellee Lynita Miller, for their daughter Sivani Miller. The Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County, based on the Report and Recommendations ...

Child support — Modification — Material change in circumstances This is an appeal from an order of the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County terminating appellee Yasmine Redman’s child support obligations. In 2014, following a merits hearing, the parties were ...

Child support — Exceptions — Timeliness of filing Andre Livingston (“Father”) and Simona Jones (“Mother”) married, had one child, and divorced, all while they lived in Connecticut. In 2007, Mother and child moved to Maryland and Father stopped paying child ...

Child support — Arrearages — Calculation Christopher Pearce, appellant, and Heather Pearce, appellee, are the parents of S.P., a minor child. In 2000, the Pearce’s entered into a Marital Settlement Agreement (the Agreement) providing for the custody and support of ...

Child support — Calculation — Imputed income Gokula Krishna Parandhamaia (“Father”) appeals from a judgment of the Circuit Court for Garrett County affirming the recommendations of the family law magistrate concerning his obligation to pay child support to Debra Ignat ...

Child Support — Modification — Contempt This case involves a finding of constructive civil contempt and the initiation of constructive criminal contempt proceedings against Nathaniel M. Costley, Sr., the pro se appellant, for his failure to comply with the terms ...

Child support — Motion to modify — Child in custody of supporting parent This appeal stems from a custody dispute between Mario Terell Foreman (“Father”), the appellant, and Leslie Ann Stewart, f/k/a Leslie Ann Williams (“Mother”), the appellee, after Mother ...

Alimony — Pendente lite — Calculation This appeal stems from the denial of Earnest Neal’s (“appellant”) exceptions to a magistrate’s recommendations on the issue of pendente lite support in Prince George’s County Circuit Court. In denying appellant’s exceptions, the trial ...