OPPOSITION TO PLAINTIFF 'S MOTION FOR DEFENDANT TO ADVANCE ATTORNEYS ' FEES and COSTS
COMES NOW, the Defendant, Michael A. McNeil, and opposes the Plaintiff 's Motion for Defendant to Advance Attorney’s Fees and Costs and states the following:
1. The Plaintiff’s Motion is not properly before this court since she failed to bring it pursuant any applicable rule since the matter before this court is a child custody/support matter and not a divorce/alimony/property settlement matter which Sections 7-107, 8-214, and 11-110 of the Maryland Code 's Family Law Article are concerned with. (See ¶¶ 8 through 10 of this document)
2. If the Plaintiff had brought her request before this Court pursuant to Section 12-103 of the Family Law Article this
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In order for this Court to grant attorney’s fees and costs, under Section 12-103 it is required to perform a Section 12-103(b)(3) analysis in order to determine whether either party had a substantial justification for bringing, maintaining, or defending the proceeding. Since this requires the Court to perform a retrospective analysis, it is impossible for this Court to perform the analysis at this point in the litigation.
5. However, if the Court was to perform a Section 12-103(b)(3) analysis today, it would find that the Defendant’s prima facie case is well supported by police reports, school records, an expert witness report, the Plaintiff’s own testimony, the Plaintiff’s own admissions, and the Defendant’s testimony. Whereas, the Plaintiff’s prima facie case is not so well supported. (See ¶¶ 31 through 38 of this document).
6. Additionally, the Plaintiff is seeking $20,000 in attorney fees for discovery, expert witness, and other costs. It should be noted that accordance with Scheduling Order (D.E. 588) the period for Discovery came to an end on June 2, 2016, and the times for designating experts ended on June 8, 2016. Also., neither times for designating experts or discovery has been extended. However, the Defendant has moved to extend discovery so that police records could become part of the record and to
For summary judgment to be granted, the movant must show “that there is no genuine dispute as to any material fact and the movant is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.” Fed. R. Civ. P. 56(a). The appellate standard of review for reviewing summary judgment orders in this case is the de novo standard, as this is a decision regarding “mixed questions of law and fact”. Barr v. Lafon, 538 F.3d 554, 562 (6th Cir. 2008).
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DISPOSITION: [**1] Defendant 's motion to compel Brennan to arbitrate denied. Brennan 's cross-motion to strike the defense of arbitration and stay arbitration granted.
The motion for partial summary for the plaintiff was denied by the court and the objection was overruled without prejudice to raise the issue for consideration at trial.
Reviewing the dispositions, the court denies plaintiff’s cross-motion for summary judgment on both its first and second causes of action….
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Id. at 67. The Court stated that the statute allowed the judge to “disregard and overturn a fit custodial parent concerning visitation whenever a third party affected by the decision files a visitation petition, based solely on the judge’s determination of the child’s best interests”. Id.
Plaintiff intend to conduct discovery procedure in this case under Level II of New York Rule of Civil Procedure 190.4 because she seek monetary relief aggregating more than $50,000, and request that the Court enter a Discovery Control Plan and place this case on Level II because the issues in dispute are complex and the claim will be better resolved in accordance with a discovery plan specifically tailored by the Court for the disposition of this case.
The proceeding was on the stage of direct examination and cross examination, when plaintiff’s lawyer and defendant’s lawyer question