Maryland Family Law Maryland family law opinions and commentary
Nearly a year after Maryland’s second-highest court ruled that people cannot be held in civil contempt for having violated a court order if they subsequently ...
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Civil contempt ruling continues to baffle Md. family law attorneys
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To marry or not to marry after retirement
Couples between the ages of 55 and 75 have the highest divorce rate in the United States according to the 2021 U.S. Census Bureau Report. ...
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Modern Family: Court addresses division of retirement benefits
MINNEAPOLIS, MN — On Sept. 6, the Minnesota Court of Appeals issued its nonprecedential decision in Probst v. Probst. Despite the guidance it offers concerning ...
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Child Advocacy: Dealing with psychotropic medications for foster care youth
Foster care youth are prescribed psychotropic medications at a rate 2.7 to 4.5 times higher than nonfoster children on Medicaid, according to a 2011 audit ...
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Adoption & Guardianship
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IN THE MATTER OF NATALYA HAMPEL aka DEVOTED LADY HAMPEL
Guardianship — Petition to terminate — Law of the case Natalya Hampel aka Devoted Lady Hampel, appellant, appeals from an order issued by the Circuit ...
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IN THE MATTER OF SYLVIA SHEATH
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IN RE: ADOPTION/GUARDIANSHIP OF T.C.
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CHOO WASHBURN v. ROBERT MCCARTHY
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Child support in Massachusetts not a bar to alimony
Massachusetts’ Alimony Reform Act does not prohibit an award of alimony when child support has been ordered, the state’s Supreme Judicial Court has found. The ...
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Jerry Hall, Rupert Murdoch reach agreement on divorce
LOS ANGELES — Model and actor Jerry Hall and media mogul Rupert Murdoch have agreed to the terms of their pending divorce, her attorney said ...
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ND woman gets life in prison for foster child’s death
FARGO, N.D.— A North Dakota woman has been sentenced to life in a federal prison for fatally abusing her 5-year-old foster child. Tammy Longie, of ...
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To marry or not to marry after retirement
Couples between the ages of 55 and 75 have the highest divorce rate in the United States according to the 2021 U.S. Census Bureau Report. ...
Read More »Modern Family: Court addresses division of retirement benefits
MINNEAPOLIS, MN — On Sept. 6, the Minnesota Court of Appeals issued its nonprecedential decision in Probst v. Probst. Despite the guidance it offers concerning ...
Read More »Child Advocacy: Dealing with psychotropic medications for foster care youth
Foster care youth are prescribed psychotropic medications at a rate 2.7 to 4.5 times higher than nonfoster children on Medicaid, according to a 2011 audit ...
Read More »U.S. has long history of unfairly separating children from parents
Border agents have found a new way to separate children from their parents. They falsely charge that a refugee/asylee assaulted them, arrest them for a ...
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