Maryland Family Law Maryland family law opinions and commentary

Child custody — Special Immigrant Juvenile status — Adoption D.C.-M. was adopted in 2015. Following the adoption, D.C.-M. filed a motion seeking to reopen his adoption proceeding to enter factual findings regarding his eligibility for status as a Special Immigrant ...

Child custody — Custody evaluator — Fraud This is an appeal from a judgment of the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, the Honorable Gary E. Bair, presiding, which dismissed William F. Feller’s multi-count civil action against William B. Zuckerman, Ph.D., ...

Child custody — Motion for modification — Service of process Appellant Stephen Hutchinson asks us to review the denial of his motion for reconsideration of an order that granted a motion for modification of custody and contempt in favor of ...

Child custody — Modification — Child’s best interests Doris Trejo and Luis Manzano married in 1998, divorced in 2012, and have a minor child, G. At the time of the divorce, they entered a Settlement Agreement that the Circuit Court ...

Child custody — Motion for judge’s recusal — Prior rulings in case Lyonel Jose (“Father”), appellant, and Sandra Farnham, formerly Sandra Jose, (“Mother”) appellee, are the divorced parents of a now ten-year old daughter (“Daughter”). This case comes before us ...

Child custody — Motion to modify — Pendente lite order On February 2, 2015, the Circuit Court for Montgomery County granted Mark Cabrera, appellant, and Isabella Cabrera, appellee, a divorce. The Judgment of Absolute Divorce incorporated the parties’ Separation Agreement, ...

Child custody — Judicial bias — Denial of custody request Eric Lappi, appellant, and Cynthia Kamga Nenkam, appellee, are the parents of S.L., a minor child. On August 13, 2018, the Circuit Court for Montgomery County entered an order granting ...

Child custody — Modification — Failure to raise claims of error Angela Speight, appellant, and Lee Williams, Jr., appellee, are the parents of H.W., a minor child. On February 1, 2016, the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County entered a ...

Child custody — Joint legal and physical custody — Best interest of the child This case arises from a dispute between Lemlem Redae (“Mother”), appellant, and Yoseph Seyoum, (“Father”), appellee, regarding their son, A.S. Mother appeals the custody and child ...

Child custody — Motion to modify — Due process Oleg Kapustin, appellant, and Evgeniya Lugovkin, appellee, have been involved in a custody dispute regarding their two minor children for over ten years. On November 8, 2017, the court issued an ...