{"id":4009,"date":"2014-12-18T20:35:13","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T00:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/maryland-family-law\/?p=4009"},"modified":"2015-02-11T20:49:25","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T00:49:25","slug":"tracy-sharon-brackett-v-susan-lynn-brandow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/maryland-family-law\/2014\/12\/18\/tracy-sharon-brackett-v-susan-lynn-brandow\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracy Sharon Brackett v. Susan Lynn Brandow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Child support: Modification: Voluntary impoverishment<\/p>\n<p>CSA No. 1924, Sept. Term 2012. Unreported. Opinion by Salmon, J. (Retired, Specially Assigned). Filed Dec. 18, 2014. Appeal from Howard County. Affirmed. TDR #14-1218-01, 38 pages.<\/p>\n<p>The circuit court\u2019s voluntary impoverishment finding was supported by the record, where, although appellant claimed she started her own business rather than take a demotion spurred by her employer\u2019s bias against her transgender status, the evidence showed her employer had valid reasons for restructuring and had offered appellant a contract under which she would have been highly compensated, which she rejected while knowing she had an obligation to pay alimony and child support.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"1924s12-Brackett-v.-Brandow.pdf via TheDailyRecord-Maryland FamilyLawUpdate\" href=\"https:\/\/thedailyrecord.com\/maryland-family-law\/files\/2015\/02\/1924s12-Brackett-v.-Brandow.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Read the unreported opinion.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>voluntary impoverishment finding was supported by the record, where, although appellant claimed she started her own business rather than take a demotion spurred by her employer\u2019s bias against her transgender status, the evidence showed her employer had valid reasons for restructuring and had offered appellant a contract under which she would have been highly compensated, which she rejected while knowing she had an obligation to pay alimony and child support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[71482,1192,1197,1435,4964],"tags":[98143,92,2175,1835,71522,11239,65649],"class_list":["post-4009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adoption-guardianship","category-child-support","category-children","category-opinions","category-torts","tag-child-support-modification","tag-howard-county","tag-income","tag-salmon","tag-sept-term-2012","tag-transgender","tag-voluntary-impoverishment","never_free"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tracy Sharon Brackett v. 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