Maryland Family Law Maryland family law opinions and commentary

HOUSTON — After being denied U.S. asylum in Texas and returned to a squalid camp in Mexico, a mother from El Salvador chose to send her three children back across the border alone. Now, those children face deportation, even though ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Polygamists have lived in Utah since before it became a state. Eighty-five years after plural marriage was declared a felony, they still number in the thousands and have even been featured in the long-running reality TV ...

PROVO, Utah — The Utah foster care system is facing a shortage of foster parents statewide, with about 2,700 children currently in foster care and only about 1,400 foster families, according to Dan Webster, nonprofit Utah Foster Care’s director of ...

BUTTE, Montana — A former Montana couple was sentenced March 10 to 13 years in prison for abusing their 12-year-old adopted son, who prosecutors said was handcuffed to a bed in a locked bedroom or cuffed by his hands and ...

BISMARCK, North Dakota — One year into a new North Dakota court program, collaborators say its areas of focus have become clearer for better serving youth and families involved in both the juvenile justice and child welfare systems and for ...

RICHMOND, Virginia — When William Christiansen married his college sweetheart, he was disturbed that they had to disclose their race to the registrar. They are an interracial couple. “It reminded me and my wife of a time when interracial couples ...

PROVO, Utah — Spanish Fork couple Rachelle and Davido Hyer had fostered young children in the past, along with having six biological children, when they decided to look into fostering again. “My wife said, ‘Hey, they have two teens.’ And ...

TOPEKA, Kan. — House lawmakers must approve a bill that would require Kansas to develop annual academic report cards on all children in foster care because few graduate from high school on time, a state legislator said. Less than 40% ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma lawmakers rejected a bill that would have stripped from parents and legal guardians of minors the legal power to consent to their marriages. The measure by Democratic Rep. Jason Dunnington from Oklahoma City failed Monday in ...

A mother is suing a Pittsburgh hospital after she says it collected and drug tested her urine without her consent and reported a false positive result to child protective services, launching a child abuse investigation. This is the second such ...