Maryland Family Law Maryland family law opinions and commentary

Child custody — Visitation — Notice requirement This appeal arises out of an order by the Circuit Court for Baltimore County resolving several motions by Nakia (McKinley) Pope, appellant, and her ex-husband, Noldon Pope, appellee, concerning custody and visitation of ...

Child custody — Modification — Required mediation sessions Appellant T.C. (“Father”) and appellee V.M. (“Mother”) are the parents of C.C. Since their separation in 2010, the parties have engaged in nearly continuous litigation relating to the custody of C.C. The ...

Child custody — Determination — Removal of child from state Blair Payton (“Father”), the appellant, asks us to hold that the Circuit Court for Harford County erred in basing its custody determination in favor of Rita Payton (“Mother”), the appellee, ...

Child custody — Special Immigrant Juvenile status — Dismissal for lack of prosecution Maria Fulgencia Corea filed a petition for sole custody and a motion for the predicate factual findings necessary to apply for Special Immigrant Juvenile (SIJ) status for ...

Custody — Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act — Children’s home state Appellant, Adepoju Olarinde (“Father”), appeals the grant of custody of his two youngest children to their mother, appellee, Kehinde Korede (“Mother”). He presents two questions for our ...

Child custody — Visitation — Stress to the children Mark Robert Michael Wozar (“Father”), appellant, a self-represented litigant, and his former spouse Gayle Lynne Wozar (“Mother”), appellee, are the parents of two sons, born in 2002 and 2004. On December ...

Child custody — Motion to modify visitation — Material change in circumstance Michelle Legault, appellee, (“Mother”) petitioned the Circuit Court for Harford County to modify her former husband, appellant, Glenn Legault’s (“Father”), visitation with their daughter, E.L. In 2011, after ...

Child custody — Name change of child — Record evidence The Circuit Court for Prince George’s County granted a motion to change the last name of Anne Marie Paul and Pierre Gerald’s minor child from “Paul” to “Paul-Gerald” to foster ...

Child custody — Circuit court jurisdiction — Voluntariness Pearnell Wilson, appellant, and Dionne Wilson, appellee, are the parents of M.W., a minor child. On May 13, 2019, the Circuit Court for Baltimore City entered an order awarding Ms. Wilson sole ...

Child custody — Motion to modify — Past abuse Nikia Nickerson (“Mother”), appellant, and Mark Regis (“Father”), appellee, are the parents of a minor son, “M.,” born April 8, 2011. At the time that the Mother and Father divorced in ...