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Modification of Custody and/or Modification of Child Support

Unlike nearly all other Judgments and Final Court Orders in Maryland, Legal Custody, Physical Custody and Child Support Orders are always subject to modification. Unless both parties agree, before a Court will modify Legal Custody, Physical Custody or Child Support, a party seeking a modification must first show a material change of circumstance. A material […]

Maryland Divorce and One Year Separation

Does Maryland Still Require Parties to be Separated One Year Before They can get an Absolute Divorce? For years in Maryland, absent specific circumstances such as Adultery or Domestic Violence which rose to the level of Cruelty of Treatment or Excessively Vicious Conduct, Courts in Maryland were not permitted to grant an Absolute Divorce until parties lived […]