State, Department of Health & Human Resources Ex Rel. Robert Michael B. v. Robert Morris N.

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• holding that, because a petitioner had not pleaded or proven the defense of laches before a family law master, he could not raise the defense for the first time on appeal
• recognizing the “need for judicial economy in family issues, as well as ... [the need to avoid] fundamental unfairness”
• stating that “a skeletal ‘argument,’ really nothing more than an assertion, does not preserve a claim” (internal quotations and citations omitted)
• stating that “[a] skeletal ‘argument,’ really nothing more than an assertion, does not preserve a claim. . . . Judges are not like pigs, hunting for truffles buried in briefs.”
• cautioning that “[a] skeletal ‘argument,’ really nothing more than an assertion, does not preserve a claim . . . . Judges are not like pigs, hunting for truffles buried in briefs.” (Citation omitted)
• applying a similar three-pronged standard of review to findings made by a family law master that were adopted by a circuit court

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