SININGER v. SININGER

No. 83, September Term, 1983.

300 Md. 604 (1984)

479 A.2d 1354

DONALD A. SININGER v. EMMA G. SININGER.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

August 23, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald B. Bergman, Hyattsville (Pickett, Houlon & Berman, Hyattsville, on the brief), for appellant.

Dorothy R. Fait, Silver Spring, for appellee.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., ELDRIDGE, COLE, DAVIDSON, RODOWSKY, COUCH, JJ., and CHARLES E. ORTH, Jr., Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals (retired), Specially Assigned.


COUCH, Judge.

The issue presented in this case is whether a parent has a duty, enforceable in equity, to support an adult child who becomes disabled after the age of majority.

On December 10, 1980, Emma Sininger, appellee, filed a Bill of Complaint for Child Support against Donald Sininger, appellant, in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County. The parties had been divorced a vinculo matrimonii on February 19, 1969. Pursuant to the divorce, appellant...

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