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MD Supreme Court rules parents can’t waive child support
Maryland’s top court ruled parents can’t waive child support, affirming it's a legal obligation regardless of mutual agreement in custody cases.
MD high court updates rules for ADA, child support
The Maryland Supreme Court adopted rule changes improving ADA access and allowing electronic service in child support modification cases.
Order denying alimony and child support not appealable, top court rules
An interlocutory order denying pendente lite alimony and child support is not appealable as an order for the payment of money, the Maryland Supreme Court ruled.
MD Supreme Court hears arguments on appealability of child support, alimony orders
The Maryland Supreme Court heard arguments as to whether an order denying pendente lite child support and alimony is appealable.
Md. high court weighs ban on gun possession by nonviolent ex-convicts
An attorney told a seemingly skeptical Maryland Supreme Court that a ban on gun possession by someone sentenced to more than two years in prison for a nonviolent common law crime violates the Constitution.
Md. high court will weigh ban on gun possession by nonviolent convicts
Maryland’s top court will consider whether the state’s ban on gun possession by someone sentenced to more than two years in prison for a nonviolent common law crime violates the Second Amendment.
Appeals court upholds Md. ban on gun possession by nonviolent convicts
Maryland’s ban on gun possession by someone sentenced to more than two years in prison for a nonviolent crime does not violate the constitutional right to keep and bear arms, […]
Senate bill would enable child support in sexual-assault cases
ANNAPOLIS – Mothers or fathers whose parental rights were terminated for having conceived the child through nonconsensual intercourse could still be ordered to pay child support under legislation being considered […]
Md. child-support guidelines would be changed under coming legislation
ANNAPOLIS – Legislation will soon be introduced to remove a controversial provision in Maryland family law that sharply reduces noncustodial parents’ child-support obligations once they have hosted their children overnight […]
Child support goes to caregiver, not payee, court says
The most important name on a child-support order is not the payee’s but the child’s, Maryland’s second highest court said in ruling child-support money held in escrow for a youngster […]
Lack of green card does not excuse child support, Md. court says
An able-bodied immigrant’s lack of work-authorization documents does not excuse him or her from the obligation to pay child support, Maryland’s second-highest court has ruled. In its 3-0 decision, the […]
Was Trump’s “Pardon me” an effort to get by or a question?
Welcome to Monday, the 43rd anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Nixon, in which the justices held that President Richard Nixon had to surrender to the special […]
