Tag Archives: child support

A six-figure failure to pay child support warranted disbarment of an attorney after more than 20 years in practice. "The duty of a parent to support his or her children is no less important than the duty of an attorney to act responsibly when handling client funds...," the Kentucky Supreme Court said. "Furthermore, as officers of the court, attorneys have a duty to follow court orders, and we have disbarred attorneys for, in part, failing to do so.”

A judge who had an affair with a woman while handling a felony child-support case she filed against the father of her child is immune from suit. The Supreme Court on Monday rejected the cert petition by the father, Robert King, leaving in place this summer’s decision by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

The Maryland General Assembly enters its three-month session with the results of a year-long study on child custody decisions in its hands, and with a longtime proponent of reforming the state’s divorce laws newly in charge of a key Senate committee.

After vacating awards and remanding the case, Court of Special Appeals on motion for reconsideration specified that, pending the circuit court’s order on remand, alimony and child support awards should be given force and effect of pendente lite awards

Child support: Modification: Res judicata CSA No. 2025, Sept. Term 2013. Unreported. Opinion by Woodward, J. Filed Dec. 8, 2014. Appeal from Montgomery County. Affirmed. TDR #14-1208-03, 15 pages. Mother’s second petition to modify child support was barred by res ...

Child support: Calculation: Deferred income CSA No. 1011, Sept. Term, 2013. Reported. Opinion by Wright, J. Filed Oct. 29, 2014. Appeal from Howard County. Affirmed.

Child support: Above-Guidelines calculation: Needs vs. actual expenses CSA No. 0395, Sept. Term 2013. Unreported. Opinion by Kenney, James A. III (Retired, Specially Assigned). Filed Aug. 25, 2014. Appeal from Howard County. Affirmed.

The incumbent family court judge says his opponent's child-support arrears indicate he is not fit to be a judge.

Child support: Adult destitute child: Autism and other disabilities CSA No. 0748, Sept. Term 2013. Reported. Opinion by Woodward, J. Filed Aug. 1, 2014. Appeal from Frederick County. Affirmed.

'Does The Child Support System Force Black Men to Be Responsible?' Not a bad blog post, but not a word about race once you got past the title. Another reader, @RegHud, was having none of it.