Maryland Family Law Maryland family law opinions and commentary

Year after year, several thousand women in the U.S. carry an unintended pregnancy to term and then offer the baby for adoption. It’s a choice commended by many foes of abortion. Yet despite a huge demand for babies from Americans ...

A coalition of community groups demanded Monday that a special prosecutor be appointed in the case of a Black youth who died following a physical struggle with staff at a Kansas juvenile center. In a Wichita rally and letter to ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration has taken the extraordinary step of marshaling state employees to handle investigations for a Philadelphia nonprofit struggling to hire enough caseworkers to field allegations of the neglect or abuse of older people. Secretary ...

YAKIMA, Wash. — The state of Washington has agreed to a $4 million settlement for two former foster children who were abused and sexually assaulted. The record-breaking settlement comes out of a sex abuse lawsuit for the two sisters, who ...

BOISE, Idaho — Idaho’s child protection services are struggling, with some kids being left in unsafe homes despite dozens of complaints and others forced to stay in hotels because there aren’t enough foster parents to take them them in, members ...

Seven young people who were detained at Vermont’s now-closed juvenile detention center and another facility are suing state officials and staff alleging “obscene abuse” at both facilities that they say state officials ignored. Vermont closed the Woodside Juvenile Rehabilitation Center ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. — Kentucky education officials have approved a proposal that would add more limits on the use of corporal punishment in schools where it is still allowed. The Kentucky Board of Education passed a proposed administrative regulation last week ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. — The 13 Southern California siblings rescued three years ago from horribly abusive conditions that included being locked in their home for years, shackled to beds and starved by their parents have been failed at different points by ...

RALEIGH, N.C. — Some North Carolina laws that took effect on Wednesday are designed to protect expectant mothers behind bars and keep more elementary school-age children accused of misdeeds out of court. The measures, among over two dozen the General ...

GREAT FALLS, Mont. — A Montana jury has awarded $16.6 million in damages to a victim of child abuse after a judge ruled the state failed to properly investigate abuse allegations before the 6-month-old girl suffered a traumatic brain injury ...