Maryland Family Law Maryland family law opinions and commentary

Child custody — Access by aunt and uncle — Exceptional circumstances Sheron Fraser and Orville Fraser (hereinafter “Appellees”) filed, in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, a petition for custody against Lionel Best (hereinafter “Father”) regarding Father’s biological son, (hereinafter ...

CINA — Motion to vacate CINA order — Evidentiary and procedural defects This is an appeal by A.W. (“Mother”) from the April 12, 2021 order of the Circuit Court for Cecil County, sitting as a juvenile court, finding her infant ...

Estates and trusts — Statute of Frauds — Testimony of disgruntled heir After a lengthy bench trial, the Circuit Court for Baltimore County found that James J. Dasher, appellant, had entered into a binding agreement with his wife, Edith B. ...

Child support — Guidelines — Deviation Kristin Barker (now Kristin Estes) [“Mother”] and Steven Bland [“Father”] are the parents of a minor child, who was born in 2007. In 2011, Mother filed a petition in the Circuit Court for Carroll ...

Divorce — Marital home — Valuation Bertin Ngamy Noutchang (“Husband”) and Sidonie Feutcha (“Wife”) divorced in November 2019. In their Judgment of Absolute Divorce, the Circuit Court for Montgomery County awarded Wife $104,649 as a share of the home they ...

Child custody — Motion to modify — Material change in circumstances This appeal concerns a complaint for modification of child custody filed in the Circuit Court for Howard County by Tony Kim, appellant, against Min Sun Kim, appellee. In a ...

Divorce — Marital property — Valuation Sher Ali Chaudry, the appellant, challenges an order of the Circuit Court for Baltimore County granting his wife, Nantara Chaudry, an absolute divorce, a marital award, joint legal and shared physical custody of the ...

Child support — Arrearage — Calculation This is an appeal from an Order of the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County that awarded legal and physical custody of the two minor children of the parties, along with child support, to ...

Child custody — Motion to modify — Abuse of discretion These consolidated appeals arise out of an ongoing dispute in the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County between A.U. and E.P. regarding custody of their minor child, K.P. Last year, ...

Child custody — Reduced visitation — Child’s best interests S.N. (“Father”) and L.C. (“Mother”) spent close to twenty years together. Though they never married, the two had a daughter, Z.N., in 2007. Their on-again off-again relationship finally came to a ...