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Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1/8/1980

Stancill v. Stancill

Citations

  • 408 A.2d 1030
  • 286 Md. 530

How courts have described this case

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

  • a court may not be handcuffed in the exercise of its duty to act in the best interests of a child by any agreement between the parents
  • “[T]he Chancellor cannot be handcuffed in the exercise of his duty to act in the best interests of a child by any understanding between parents.”
  • obligation to pay non-modifiable wife maintenance not excused by wife’s refusal to honor child visitation arrangements
  • “the chancellor cannot be handcuffed in the exercise of his duty to act in the best interest of a child by any understanding between the parties”
  • “The chancellor cannot be handcuffed in the exercise of his duty to act in the best interest of a child by any understanding between the parties”
  • LTJhe Chancellor cannot be handcuffed in the exercise of his duty to act in the best interests of a child by any understanding between parents.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Murphy, Smith, Digges, Eldridge, Orth, Cole

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29 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

Cites

22 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

Other cases named Stancill v. Stancill

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