EVANS v. EVANS

No. 81, September Term, 1984.

302 Md. 334 (1985)

488 A.2d 157

CHERYL ANN EVANS v. DONALD LEE EVANS.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

February 21, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

G. Clifton Patterson III, Rockville (McCarthy, Wilson & Ethridge, Rockville, on brief), for appellant.

Donna C. Aldridge, Hyattsville, for appellee.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., SMITH, ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY and COUCH, JJ., and W. ALBERT MENCHINE, Associate Judge of the Court of Special Appeals (retired), Specially Assigned.


MURPHY, Chief Judge.

The question in this case is whether, as part of a divorce proceeding, the court is authorized to award visitation rights to a nonadoptive stepmother of a minor child.

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Cheryl and Donald Evans were married in June of 1975. For six months prior to the marriage, Donald's child by an earlier marriage, then eighteen-month-old Jason, was in Cheryl's care. The parties separated in January of 1980. For seven months thereafter, Jason...

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