When a parent or spouse is determined voluntarily impoverished, the court may determine child support or alimony based upon the parent’s or spouse’s potential income and earning capacity. In Child Support Cases: Voluntary impoverishment was …
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Can Immigration Status Impact Maryland Child Support?
On September 29, the Court of Special Appeals issued an opinion about child support, focusing on the intersection of voluntary impoverishment (deliberate unemployment or underemployment to avoid paying child support) and immigration status. In short, …
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Maryland Child Custody When You’re Not the Parent
Since July 2016, Maryland’s Appellate Courts changed the landscape of child custody cases involving third parties – people who are not biological or adoptive parents – in two important ways. I will generally refer to …
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Customizing Your Case – Summer
This post expands on earlier posts: What is Child Custody? and in the Customizing Your Case series on Physical Custody & Parenting Time, Legal Custody, Parenting Time Schedules, and Holidays. Summertime…A break from life as usual. So, …
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Maryland Grandparent Custody & Visitation – Can I ask for custody during the parents’ custody case?
On August 29, 2017 in Burak v. Burak, the highest court in Maryland decided that grandparents can request permission to participate in an existing an active custody case to request custody of a grandchild. This …
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Customizing Your Case – Holidays
This post expands on earlier posts: What is Child Custody?, Customizing Your Case – Physical Custody & Parenting Time, Customizing Your Case – Legal Custody, and Customizing Your Case – Parenting Time Schedules. Holidays are special occasions, …
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Maryland Grandparent Custody & Visitation – What are Exceptional Circumstances?
When a grandparent wants custody of or visitation with a child, the grandparent must prove either that the parents are unfit or that there are exceptional circumstances. Once proven, then the court can consider what …
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Maryland Child Support – What is retroactive child support?
When a parent files for child support, the date of filing starts the clock on the child’s right to child support. Retroactive child support is the right to child support from the date of filing …
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Maryland Grandparent Custody & Visitation – What is parental unfitness?
On August 29, 2017, the highest court in Maryland decided a grandparent custody case, Burak v. Burak, and finally defined what makes parents unfit to have custody of their child(ren). While custody and visitation are, …
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Maryland Child Support – When can a court order a parent to provide income or employment-related information?
In a recent Court of Appeals case, Burak v. Burak, the opinion mentions in passing that the trial court ordered an unemployed parent to provide information, to the child support recipient, about attempts to obtain …
