Michael Von Sas

Senior Attorney

Michael Von Sas is one of the few attorneys in Anne Arundel County who has immersively cross-trained in both domestic litigation and commercial/property litigation. His practice integrates both areas at RPM.

Like all attorneys at RPM, assists clients through divorce and custody proceedings, and specializes in guiding clients in the peripheral matters that come with these major life changes, including partitioning of real estate between couples and family members, assisting with buyouts and refinancing and re-titling of marital property, landlord-tenant and eviction matters, and the necessary reorganization of estate planning that comes with divorce. Michael is also keenly aware of the needs of business owners in the midst of divorce and works to unwind shareholder disputes and obtain injunctive relief that becomes necessary when a marital business comes to the fore during divorce litigation. 

Michael also leads RPM’s Trusts, Wills, and Guardianship practice. For many years, Michael has served as a court trustee and is regularly appointed by judges of the Circuit Court to conduct the sale of property in divorce proceedings. Michael is also an appellate attorney who has successfully practiced in the Appellate and Supreme Courts of Maryland and assists RPM clients through the complex process of appeals when the need arises. 

In the world of property and business disputes, Michael has represented contractors, developers, farmers, and property owners in real estate, construction, zoning, and title disputes in arbitrations, mediations, administrative hearings, and when necessary, in court proceedings from small claims court all the way to the Supreme Court of Maryland. Michael takes a special pride in helping waterfront property owners up and down the Chesapeake Bay tributaries maximize the use of their property in the very complex legal and administrative environments they encounter.   

Michael is an Annapolitan, a sailor, a hunter, and a voracious consumer of naval history. He is as married to the law as any attorney can be, as he met his wife when interviewing to be her successor as a law clerk to Judge Alison Asti in the Anne Arundel County Circuit Court. 

Representative Appellate Matters

Donohue v. Mavronis, No. 2295, 2025 LX 382494 (App. Aug. 27, 2025). Dispute between two adjoining waterfront property owners resulted in a published Appellate opinion affirming a finding that the opposing party had placed plantings and planter boxes improperly across an adjoining neighbor’s property line, and that the fence erected by the neighbors within the field of planter box was on their own property. 

Ann Swatt et al v. Sunrise Premier Pool Builders, 2025 Md. App. LEXIS 219 (Certiorari subsequently denied). Successfully upheld an arbitration award on behalf of a pool builder. Homeowners sought review of arbitration award in Circuit Court, the Appellate Court, and Supreme Court and lost in all three venues. 

Sanders v. Shenski ACM-REG-1784-2022. Successfully briefed and defended an appeal by a homeowner of an award of no damages against a contractor alleged to have caused property damage. Appeal was dismissed by the homeowner on the eve of oral argument in the ACM. (MVS appellate counsel only)