Mother and Father are the parents of a minor child ("Child"). In July 2018, the circuit court entered an order establishing a custody arrangement for the Child and ordering Father to pay child support.

Five years later, in July 2023, Father filed a Mo... More...    $0 (07-23-2024 - MD)

The Government began investigating Appellant after a broader inspection of government computers revealed sexually explicit materials on his government account. The inspection of Appellant’s computer account disclosed hundreds of sexually explicit images and several videos, all of which were prohibited by regulation from being stored on an Air Force computer system. A few of the depictions showed... More...    $0 (11-16-2015 - MD)

Over the course of Appellant’s first four years in the Air Force, he was engaged in multiple tumultuous relationships, three of which resulted in charges in this case. In 2009, about a year after joining the Air Force, Appellant married KM, a woman from his hometown. KM served on active duty for a short period of time but was medically retired due to issues with her hips that developed during in... More...    $0 (11-14-2015 - MD)

On March 4, 2009, appellant, Yiannis Yiallouros,1 filed suit in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, against appellee, John David Tolson, and alleged that appellee was liable in negligence for damages, including pain and suffering, medical expenses, loss of present and future earnings, and loss of consortium. On April 28, 2010, the jury found in favor of appellant and awarded $32,000.88 for pa... More...    $0 (03-02-2012 - MD)

This case involves the interpretation of the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act, Sections 9.5-101 to 9.5-318 of the Family Law Article, Maryland Code (1984, 2006 Repl. Vol.).1 Peter Paul Toland, Jr.,2 Appellant, challenges the Circuit Court for Montgomery County’s determination that a Japanese decree providing guardianship of his minor child to the child’s grandmother, Akik... More...    $0 (05-22-2012 - MD)

Marjorie Gayle Hendrix, the appellant, was injured in an automobile accident caused by Charles Robert Burns, one of the appellees. In the Circuit Court for Baltimore County, Mrs. Hendrix sued Mr. Burns and Candice Marie Burns, his wife, the other appellee, alleging battery and negligence against Mr. Burns and negligent entrustment against Mrs. Burns.

Mrs. Hendrix prayed a jury trial. Before... More...    $0 (03-29-2012 - MD)

Appellant, Jessica Port, and Appellee, Virginia Anne Cowan, married in California in 2008. Approximately two years later, Port and Cowan agreed mutually to separate. Port filed ultimately a divorce complaint, on the ground of voluntary separation, in the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County (at the time, she was a resident of the County). Cowan answered the complaint in a “no contestâ€� ma... More...    $0 (05-18-2012 - MD)

On October 12, 2007, John J. Fitzgerald (“Fitzgeraldâ€�), the appellee, was divorced from Lori F. Fitzgerald (“Lori Fitzgeraldâ€� or “the Decedentâ€�) in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County. A Marital Settlement Agreement (“the Agreementâ€�) was incorporated, but not merged, into the parties’ judgment of absolute divorce. In the Agreement, Fitzgerald granted Lori Fitzgerald his entir... More...    $0 (02-07-2011 - MD)

This is the second appeal in a successful action by Robert and Suzanne Cochran (“the Cochrans�), the appellants, against Griffith Energy Services, Inc., t/a Ewing Oil (“Griffith�), the appellee, for damages caused by a fuel oil spill in the Cochrans’ home. The primary issue now in dispute is the amount of post-judgment interest the Cochrans are entitled to receive.

A jury in the C... More...    $0 (03-31-2010 - MD)

Our concern is with the threshold of appealability. The particular aspect thereof that commands our attention is the collateral order doctrine. Does the denial in this case of a motion to quash a discovery order qualify as a privileged collateral order within the contemplation of the doctrine? Or shall its review more properly await a final judgment?

The Procedural Background

The app... More...    $0 (03-01-2010 - MD)

In this case we interpret Section 4-105(4) of Md. Code (1974, 2001 R epl. Vo l.) Estates & Trusts Article (“ETâ€�), which directs that provisions in a will “relating to the spouseâ€� be revoked upon divorce from that person. We hold that the automatic revocation provision of ET Section 4-105(4) is not limited to bequ ests to a former spouse, and may include bequests to a former spouse’s fami... More...    $0 (01-29-2010 - MD)

The notion of alimony totally disconnected from a divorce, albeit a practice boasting a venerable pedigree, has become at least quaintly anachronistic, if not actually vestigial, in 21st Century Maryland. Just such a self-contained grant of alimony, however, is what we are urged to hold survived the shipwreck of a divorce proceeding in the Circuit Court for Prince George's County on January 9, 200... More...    $0 (11-25-2009 - MD)

In June 2006, Albert Snyder instituted this diversity action in the District of Maryland against Westboro Baptist Church, Incorporated (the "Church"), and several of its members (collectively, the "Defendants"). Snyder’s lawsuit is predicated on two related events: a protest the Defendants conducted in Maryland near the funeral of Snyder’s son Matthew (an enlisted Marine who tragically died in... More...    $0 (10-03-2009 - MD)

In June 2006, Albert Snyder instituted this diversity action in the District of Maryland against Westboro Baptist Church, Incorporated (the "Church"), and several of its members (collectively, the "Defendants"). Snyder’s lawsuit is predicated on two related events: a protest the Defendants conducted in Maryland near the funeral of Snyder’s son Matthew (an enlisted Marine who tragically died in... More...    $0 (09-25-2009 - MD)

We are asked in this case to decide whether an inter vivos transfer, in which a deceased spouse reta ined control over the transferred property during his lifetime, constitutes a per se violation of the surviving spouse’s statutory, elective right to a percentage of the deceased spouse’s net estate under Maryland Code (1974, 2001 Repl. Vol., 2008 Cum. Supp.), Estates and Trusts Article, § 3-2... More...    $0 (11-12-2008 - MD)

The issue in this case is whether a cause of action for intentional interference with custody and visitation rights is sustainable by a father, Michael Shannon, against his former wife, Nermeen Khalifa Shannon, and her mother, Afaf Nassar Khalifa ("Appellants"), both of whom fled to Egypt with the couple's two minor children, who remain there. Appellants moved to dismiss the father's complaint... More...    $3017500 (04-11-2008 - MD)

The principal parties to this dispute are a homeowners' association and a homeowner. Their quarrel, which began over a basketball hoop and a parking space, has resulted in at least four separate actions, with an intimation of more to come. At a loss as to why so little has generated so much conflict, we can only surmise that we are in the middle of what may be the litigatory equivalent ... More...    $0 (07-07-2004 - MD)

The petitioner in this case, David S. Goldberg, Esquire, ("Goldberg"), seeks review of the judgment of the Court of Special Appeals and asks this Court to determine whether guardian ad litem fees imposed pursuant to Maryland Code § 1-202 of the Family Law Article (1984, 1999 Repl. Vol.) (hereinafter "guardian ad litem fees") can be collected through garnishment of a federal retirement annuity u... More...    $0 (11-08-2002 - MD)

The Circuit Court for Baltimore City granted a motion to dismiss a declaratory judgment action brought by Lawrence Polakoff; CFSP Limited Partnership ("CFSP"); Chase Management, Inc. ("Chase"); Stanley Sugarman, Sugarcorn Realty ("Sugarcorn"); and Homewood Realty, Inc. ("Homewood"), the appellants, against Brenda A. Hampton, individually and as mother and next friend of Brenda Hampton, a minor... More...    $0 (11-07-2002 - MD)

In Ross v. Hoffman, 280 Md. 172, 372 A.2d 582 (1977), we announced standards and guidelines for the judicial resolution of child custody disputes between the child’s parent and someone who is not the child’s pa rent – a third party. Synthesizing holdings and statements from earlier cases, we made clear, first, that “ the best in teres t of th e child standard is always ... More...    $0 (01-08-2003 - MD)