Aubrey Burton, Jr. averages approximately two to three court appearances each week. The following blurbs are from some recent cases resolved by Mr. Burton.
- Aubrey Burton, Jr. forces the Baltimore County Attorney's Office and the Baltimore County Department of Social Services to dismiss a Child in Need of Assistance [CINA] Petition filed against his client for allegedly afflicting her infant child with “shaken baby syndrome.” The CINA Petition was dismissed approximately one week before trail.
- Aubrey Burton, Jr. blocks a mother's attempt to include private school tuition in the child support guidelines due to the mother's failure to discuss the specific school choice with the father and the mother's refusal to provide the school with the father's information.
- Aubrey Burton, Jr. vindicates a client whose deceitful spouse sold the marital home and secreted the proceeds of the sale, without the consent or knowledge of the client. Following a two day trial, the court awarded the client with 100% of the remaining funds from the sale of the marital home.
- Aubrey Burton, Jr. thwarts an unscrupulous business partner's plan to defraud and usurp his deceased partner's estate's interest in the business and its assets. Ultimately, the business partner was forced to acknowledge the deceased partner's estate's interest
- Aubrey Burton, Jr. successfully defends a homeowner against an unscrupulous contractors attempt to obtain a mechanics lien and judgment against the homeowner for constructing the home. After a three day trial, Mr. Burton obtained a verdict in favor of the homeowner. Ultimately, the homeowner received over $100,000.00 in no-cost construction due to Mr. Burton's successful defense.
- Aubrey Burton, Jr. successfully uses defensive procedural techniques to shield a spouse from an imminent assessment of child support, alimony, and a use and possession award so adeptly that the opposing counsel settled for a fraction of what the court intimated that it was inclined to do.
- Aubrey Burton, Jr. obtains custody for a father, over the mother's vigorous opposition, despite the fact that the judge who awarded the father custody, entered a protective order against the father for using excessive corporal discipline on the Minor approximately nine months earlier.
- Aubrey Burton, Jr. persuades the court to disregard the suggestion of the Best Interest Attorney (formally referred to as a guardian ad litem) and child's therapist, both of whom recommended supervised visits for Mr. Burton's client. In this case, Mr. Burton prevailed against three attorneys seeking to restrict the parental rights of Mr. Burton's military service member client. Ultimately, Mr. Burton succeeded in obtaining custody for his client.
- Aubrey Burton, Jr. upholds the rights of an aggrieved father whose parental rights were usurped by an unjust custody order and finding of contempt. Once Mr. Burton entered the case, he successfully compelled the court to vacate finding of contempt and rescind the custody order.
- Aubrey Burton, Jr. does the unthinkable: obtain custody for a client that was not related the child, over the objections of a parent that the court considered to be a fit parent!
- Aubrey Burton, Jr. successfully reduces a non-custodial parent's child support arrears from over $43,000.00 to less than half in the Circuit Court for Prince George's County. Notably, Maryland law does not permit the reduction.
Wells v. Wells, 168 Md.App. 382, 896 A.2d 1082 (2006)
Aubrey Burton, Jr. appealed a decision by the Chief Judge of the Circuit Court for Charles County. In Wells v. Wells, Aubrey Burton, Jr. successfully defended a wife's rights after she alleged that her husband tricked her into not participating in a divorce proceeding, thereby preventing her from obtaining custody, child support, and her share of pension and property. Following an appeal before the Court of Special Appeals, the second highest court in the State of Maryland, the Court determined that Aubrey Burton Jr.'s appeal was meritorious. As a result, the case was remanded back to the Circuit Court for Charles County, in accordance with Aubrey Burton, Jr.'s request.
On April 21, 2006, The Daily Record, a business and legal newspaper serving the business and legal community in Maryland, featured an article concerning the Wells v. Wells ruling. The paper deemed the case as the “Secret Divorce Case.”
- Aubrey Burton, Jr. sought in banc review of a ruling in the Circuit Court for Prince George's County, wherein the trial judge erred by awarding a final protective order under circumstances in violation of the Family Law Code, United States Constitution, and the Maryland Declaration of Rights. In banc review is a mechanism in which a three judge panel reviews a trial judge's decision for errors in law and discretion.
- Aubrey Burton, Jr. awarded over $22,000.00 in attorney's fees in a case involving a cheating spouse's fraudulent transfer of a marital home, in the Circuit Court for Calvert County.
