Schneider v. Schneider

RODOWSKY, Judge.

Here, a divorced woman sought specifically to enforce against her former husband a contract for support that was not referred to in the divorce decree. The circuit court dismissed the plaintiffs complaint under the clean hands doctrine, because the complaint revealed that she had testified falsely in the divorce action as to the grounds for divorce. For the reasons explained below, we shall reverse.

The petitioner, Janet Marie Schneider (Janet), and the respondent, Mark Reynolds Schneider (Mark), were divorced a vinculo by a decree of the Circuit Court for Frederick County…