Legal Opinion
Montgomery County Department of Social Services v. Sanders
Court of Special Appeals of Maryland
Decided January 10, 1978No. 943, September Term, 1977PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGilbert, C. J.
The United Nations Declaration states that “[mjankind owes to a child the best it has to give.” Very few persons will quarrel with the tenor of that assertion. What gives rise to controversy is not the general proposition of mankind’s obligation to provide what is best for the child, but rather, what is best. The theoretical best mankind can provide is not always the best that society, through its courts, can implement. Consistently, the courts of Maryland have endeavored, in custody cases, to look to the “best interest” of the child. See e.g., Ross v. Hoffman, 280 Md. 172, 175, 372 A. 2d…
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