Court Opinion

ID: 9648289
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 14:12:46.176647+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:31:00.161768
License: Public Domain

FARRELL, Associate Judge,
concurring:
I join Judge SCHWELB’S opinion unqual-ifiedly. As Judge FERREN concedes in *326dissent, there is no “indication” in either statute or case law that Maryland, in applying its child support guideline, would turn a blind eye to that “rare” case, post at 332, not exemplified here, in which the noncustodial parent experienced a dramatic increase in his/her standard of living. We should not decide this ease on the bare hypothetical possibility of such an outcome. Without a more persuasive demonstration of likely difference in the application of the two guidelines, Judge Schwelb is correct that “the most important reality in this case,” in a balancing of governmental interests, is that the children are domiciled in Maryland, where their primary expenses are incurred.