Lawrence v. Lawrence

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming a trial court’s denial of a mother’s petition to change her minor children’s surname from their father’s surname to a hyphenation of the mother’s name and the father’s surname
• divorced parents; mother petitioned to change names of ten and eight- year-old children from father’s last name to hyphenation of both parents’ last names

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Schroeder v. Broadfoot
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2002-02-05· cited 14×
• Leadingham ex rel. Smith v. Smith
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 2001-09-07· cited 4×
• In re Mattoon
  Vermont Superior Court· 2003-10-30
• In re: K.L.
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2021-09-01

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Application of Saxton
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1981-08-21· cited 57×
• Laks v. Laks
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1975-10-08· cited 43×
• Greenstein v. Meister
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1977-02-01· cited 32×
• West v. Wright
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1971-11-09· cited 26×
• Hall v. Hall
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1976-02-02· cited 20×
• Lassiter-Geers v. Reichenbach
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1985-05-14· cited 17×
• Roberts v. Roberts
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1977-04-11· cited 13×
• Wilhelm v. Wilhelm
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1957-06-24· cited 11×
• Burke v. Hammonds
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1979-10-12· cited 9×
• Reaser v. Reaser
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1985-04-16· cited 7×
• Reinstatement of Sperling
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2021-07-28· cited 1×
• Wearn v. Wray
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1976-07-16· cited 1×