IN RE R.W. HEILIG

No. 38, Sept.Term, 2002.

816 A.2d 68 (2003)

372 Md. 692

In the Matter of Robert Wright HEILIG Janet Heilig Wright.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

February 11, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alyson Dodi Meiselman (Phyllis Randolph Frye, on brief), North Potomac, for petitioner.

No argument for respondent.

Argued before BELL, C.J., ELDRIDGE, RAKER, WILNER, CATHELL, HARRELL, and BATTAGLIA, JJ.


WILNER, Judge.

Petitioner was born in Pennsylvania in 1948. His birth certificate, issued by the Department of Health of that State, records his name as Robert Wright Heilig and his sex as male.

In March, 2001, Mr. Heilig filed a petition in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, in which he alleged that he was then a Maryland resident and that he was "transitioning from male to female." Invoking the equitable jurisdiction of the court, he asked for an order...

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