POPE v. POPE

[No. 168, September Term, 1977.]

283 Md. 531 (1978)

390 A.2d 1128

ELLA ELIZABETH POPE v. WILLIAM JOSEPH POPE, SR. ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided September 14, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John C. Eidleman and Carolyn Rodis Boyd for appellant.

Carolyn I. Polowy, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, Joel J. Rabin and Lois F. Lapidus, Assistant Attorneys General, on the brief, for appellee Employment Security Administration. No brief filed on behalf of William Joseph Pope, Sr.

The cause was argued before MURPHY, C.J., and SMITH, DIGGES, LEVINE, ELDRIDGE, ORTH and COLE, JJ.


DIGGES, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

This case requires us to determine whether a court, pursuant to a statutory grant of authority to establish a lien on the earnings of a person in arrears on court-ordered support payments, may place a lien on that person's unemployment benefits — or whether, to the contrary, such a lien to satisfy a support order is prohibited by the section of the Maryland Unemployment Insurance Law which invalidates encumbrances...

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