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Courts Website for the State of Maryland. First click "Appellate Opinions" and look up Court of Appeals, March 8, 2000, Thrower vs. Support Enforcement, and anybody can see it for themselves.
The St. Mary's Court would not let child support parents have their right to legal representation and it put our County parents into jail without a real Judge and did not give the parents their right to a trial, and as a result of the above linked case the laws for the entire State of Maryland were changed just to stop the St. Mary's County Court and to make certain that the abuses would not happen anywhere else as it did happen here.
So now the St. Mary's Court has only done what the high Court has ordered it to do but nothing more. This Court of ours does not accept that it did anything wrong and it does not repair what it did do wrong.

Child support is a big deal. Our Courts are putting dead-broke parents into jail and years into prison in demand of money that does not exist. Only poor parents go to jail.
In Maryland a little less than 25 percent of Court ordered child support gets paid while a little over 75 percent of Court ordered child support does not get paid. That means that most custodial parents do not get paid and most of the separated parents do not pay the money. So the systen is broken. It has failed already in its present form. It sencelessly turns parents into criminals and it alienates the children too. Child support is a failed policy that needs reform to make it family friendly.



