Legal Opinion
Davis v. Davis
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided August 24, 1994No. 107, September Term, 1993PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RAKER, Judge.
The petitioner in this appeal has raised several procedural challenges to the validity of both a judgment of absolute divorce and a marital property distribution. We are asked to determine whether the trial court’s failure to comply with the time limitations set by Maryland Code (1991 RepLVol.) § 8-203(a) of the Family Law Article and/or with Maryland Rule S75(c), which prohibits the use of stale testimony in entering final decrees in certain actions, divests the court of jurisdiction over the underlying action. We hold that neither § 8-203(a) nor Rule S75(c) is jurisdictional in…
2Cases cited19 opinions
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- Houghton v. County Comm'rs of Kent Co.Court of Appeals of Maryland · 1986
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