Garay v. Overholtzer

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that parents have common law and statutory duty to support and care for their children
• reiterating that where Maryland rule essentially tracks federal rule, interpretations of that federal rule are persuasive as to meaning and proper applications of the Maryland rule
• noting that when a Maryland rule of procedure derives from a federal rule, “interpretations of that federal rule are persuasive as to the meaning and proper applications of the Maryland rule”
• establishing an exception where a parent is too poor to provide medical care to a child
• detailing Court of Appeals’s unwillingness to give expansive interpretation to, or recognize implied exceptions, in CJP § 5-201
• noting the general rule that “where the legislature has not expressly provided for an exception in a statute of limitations, the court will not allow any implied or equitable exception to be engrafted upon it”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).