WILLS v. JONES

No. 23, September Term, 1995.

340 Md. 480 (1995)

NATASHA WILLS v. RANDY W. JONES.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

November 15, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Angela M. Eaves, Assistant Attorney General, (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Attorney General; C.J. Messerschmidt, Assistant Attorney General, all on brief) Baltimore, for petitioner.

Hillary Galloway Davis (J. Edward Davis, both on brief) Towson, for respondent.

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


MURPHY, Chief Judge.

This case requires us to determine whether penal incarceration constitutes a material change of circumstance sufficient to justify the modification of a child support award under Maryland Code (1984, 1991 Repl.Vol., 1994 Supp.) § 12-104 of the Family Law Article, and whether an incarcerated parent should be considered voluntarily impoverished under § 12-204(b) of that Article. We hold that a prisoner's incarceration may constitute a...

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