Terms Used In Maryland Code, FAMILY LAW 5-411

  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
An individual who is aggrieved by a final decision of the director of a local department that denies eligibility or reduces or terminates a subsidy in a contested case may:

(1) appeal that decision to the administrative appellate authority designated by rule or regulation; and

(2) then take any further appeal allowed by the Administrative Procedure Act.