IN RE ADOPTION NO. 9979

No. 59, September Term, 1990.

323 Md. 39 (1991)

591 A.2d 468

IN RE ADOPTION NO. 9979.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

June 25, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James A. Shrybman (Harvey Schweitzer, Shrybman & Associates, on brief), Silver Spring, for appellant.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE, CHASANOW, KARWACKI and CHARLES E. ORTH, Jr., Judge of the Court of Appeals of Maryland, (Retired, Specially Assigned), JJ.


McAULIFFE, Judge.

This appeal involves the interpretation of § 5-327 of the Family Law Article, Maryland Code (1984), which prohibits certain payments in connection with adoption placement. Appellants, the adopting parents, question whether the trial judge was correct in ruling that § 5-327 prohibits payment by the adopting parents to the natural mother of the cost of maternity clothes. We hold the payment is prohibited by the statute.

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