Maryland Family Law Maryland family law opinions and commentary

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

Child support — Calculation — Child’s extracurricular activities This is an appeal from an order of the Circuit Court for Baltimore County granting child support, a monetary award, and a transfer of marital property. Following a bifurcated divorce hearing, the ...

Child support — Paternity test — Backdating support award after positive test Laplanche presents five questions for our review—three of which relate to the exceptions hearing, and two of which relate to the paternity hearing. In regards to the exceptions ...

Child support — Motion to modify — Material change in circumstance On April 8, 2015, Ashley Weis, appellant, and Rachel Weis, appellee, were granted an absolute divorce by way of judgment entered in the Circuit Court for Carroll County. As ...

CINA — Challenge to concurrent permanency plan — Interlocutory appeal On February 12, 2014, the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County, sitting as a juvenile court, with the agreement of Libra S. (“Mother”), determined that then five-yearold L.S. (“the child”) ...

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 ...