SCHNEIDER v. SCHNEIDER

No. 98, September Term, 1993.

335 Md. 500 (1994)

644 A.2d 510

JANET MARIE SCHNEIDER v. MARK REYNOLDS SCHNEIDER.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

July 18, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barry J.C. Kissin, Frederick, argued for petitioner.

William R. Nicklas, Jr., argued and on brief (Mary Ann Ferguson, Doherty, Elliot & Nicklas, P.A., on brief), Frederick, for respondent.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, CHASANOW, KARWACKI, BELL and RAKER, JJ.


RODOWSKY, Judge.

Here, a divorced woman sought specifically to enforce against her former husband a contract for support that was not referred to in the divorce decree. The circuit court dismissed the plaintiff's complaint under the clean hands doctrine, because the complaint revealed that she had testified falsely in the divorce action as to the grounds for divorce. For the reasons explained below, we shall reverse.

The petitioner, Janet Marie Schneider ...

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