The recent Maryland Court of Appeals case of Morton v. Schlotzhauer involved a personal injury claim brought, at the last minute, by a woman who had filed bankruptcy and failed to list her personal injury claim as an asset. When this oversight was discovered, the opposing party sought to dismiss her case. This is because if a person does not list and exempt the asset, […]
In a recent unreported case the Maryland Court of Special Appeals upheld a Circuit Court decision which found that a father’s conviction of a sex offense involving his wife’s 14-year-old sister did not warrant a change of his child’s name. The Court of Special Appeals determined that the sex offense did constitute the type of “extreme circumstances” which allowed the court to consider a name […]