Legal Opinion
Frase v. Barnhart
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided December 11, 2003No. 6, Sept. Term, 2002PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILNER, Judge.
We have before us what began as a custody dispute between Deborah Frase, the mother of three-year-old Brett, and Curtis and Cynthia Barnhart, a couple who, during part of an eight-week period of the mother’s incarceration, volunteered to care for Brett and then decided that they wanted custody of the child. The issue at this point is not who should have custody of Brett. The Circuit Court for Caroline County seems to have resolved that in the mother’s favor. It is Ms. Frase who complains — that she was not provided free counsel to assist her in defending the action, that the…
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