140 Md. App. 412 - Lacy v. Arvin’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently November 2020
17 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Chapman v. Burton Berger & Associates · Tucker v. Fireman's Fund Insurance · Degren v. State · Klein v. Weiss · Adamson v. Correctional Medical Services, Inc.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he parents of a child are his natural guardians and, quite apart from the moral obligations of parenthood, owe the child a legal, statutory obligation of support. Thrower v. State ex rel. Bureau of Support Enforcement, 358 Md. 146, 159-60 , 747 A.2d 634 (2000); see also FL § 5-203 (stating that “[t]he parents of a minor child ... are jointly and severally responsible for the child’s support, care, nurture, welfare, and education”); Petrini v. Petrini, 336 Md. 453, 459 , 648 A.2d 1016 (1994)(noting that the legal obligation of parents to support and care for their children is “based on both common law and statutory authority”). A parent owes this obligation of support to the child, not to the other parent, see Rand v. Rand, 40 Md.App. 550, 554 , 392 A.2d 1149 (1978).... When the parents and child live together, so that the child is in the parents’ joint physical custody, it is presumed that each parent fulfills that parent’s obligation of support to the child directly. When the parents live apart, however, it is presumed that the parent in whose custody the child resides fulfills his or her obligation of support directly; the other parent’s support obligation then must be translated into dollars and paid to the custodial parent, for the child’s benefit. Md.Code (1984, 1999 Repl.Vol., 2001 Supp.) § 12-204(k) of the Family Law Article; Anderson v. Anderson, 117 Md.App. 474, 482 , 700 A.2d 844 (1997), vacated on other grounds, 349 Md. 294 , 708 A.2d 296 (1998).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(v) 1. If the court determines that the application of the guidelines would be unjust or inappropriate in a particular case, the court shall make a written finding or specific finding on the record stating the reasons for departing from the guidelines. 2. The court’s finding shall state: A. the amount of child support that would have been required under the guidelines; B. how the order varies from the guidelines; C. how the finding serves the best interests of the child; and D. in cases in which items of value are conveyed instead of a portion of the support presumed under the guidelines, the estimated value of the items conveyed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(iv) The presumption [of correctness] may not be rebutted solely on the basis of evidence of the presence in the household of either parent of other children to whom that parent owes a duty of support and the expenses for whom that parent is directly contributing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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