Legal Opinion
Arrington v. Department of Human Resources
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided November 8, 2007No. 10, 26, Sept. Term, 2007PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALAN M. WILNER,
Judge, Retired, Specially Assigned.
We have before us two more cases in which a trial court has searched for some effective way to enforce the legal obligation that parents have to support the children they bring into the world. 1 In Bryant v. Howard County Dept. of Social Services ex rel. Costley, 387 Md. 30, 33, 874 A.2d 457, 458 (2005), we acknowledged the difficulties and the frustration faced by the courts when dealing with parents who wilfully and defiantly refuse to comply with lawful, and often consensual, child support orders.
We recognized in Bryant, as we had in…
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