Legal Opinion

In Re VICTORIA C.

Court of Appeals of Maryland

Decided March 27, 2014No. 15/13Published

1Opinion of the CourtBattaglia, J.

In the present case we are called upon to address the applicability of our holding in Koshko v. Haining, 398 Md. 404, 441, 921 A.2d 171, 192-93 (2007), in which we recognized that parents of a minor child have the fundamental right to make decisions regarding the care, custody, and control over their child such that third parties seeking visitation contrary to the *569parents’ wishes must make a prima facie showing that the absence of such visitation would have a “significant deleterious effect” on the child, i.e., “exceptional circumstances.”1 Our Koshko decision followed the United States…

2Cases cited10 opinions

  1. Troxel v. GranvilleSupreme Court of the United States · 2000
  2. Ross v. HoffmanCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1977
  3. Koshko v. HainingCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 2007
  4. County Council v. OffenCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1994
  5. McDermott v. DoughertyCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 2005

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