Maryland Family Law Maryland family law opinions and commentary

INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana is the top state in the nation for increasing the number of children adopted from foster care, according to state and federal officials. In the 2019 fiscal year, 2,489 Hoosier children were adopted through the Indiana Department ...

DEER LODGE, Mont. — Montana State Prison inmate Jesse Harrison smiled under his face mask as he showed the small clay pot he was painting to fellow inmate Jeramie Carr, who was in the midst of some beadwork. At first ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — A new state audit says Oregon is failing to make sure vulnerable children and families are receiving needed mental health care through the Oregon Health Plan, even as taxpayers give millions of dollars in performance bonuses to ...

AUSTIN, Texas — A federal judge in Texas said Friday that she is “concerned” about the high rate of coronavirus infections in the state’s troubled foster care system. Court-ordered monitors say the positive test rate was at 20% in late ...

OMAHA, Neb. — A devoutly Catholic husband who refused to grant his wife a divorce on religious grounds urged Nebraska’s highest court Thursday to overturn the state’s no-fault divorce law in a case that could leave Nebraska as the only ...

The number of children in the U.S. foster care system has dropped for a second year in a row, and a record number of children in the child welfare system were able to find adoptive homes, according to new federal ...

TOPEKA, Kan. — The head of the Kansas agency responsible for foster care in the state told lawmakers improvements have already been made in response to a scathing federal report and the settlement of class-action lawsuits over care foster children ...

NEWARK, N.J. — A convicted former Army major and his wife who prosecutors said routinely beat their young foster children and denied them food and water will be sentenced for a third time, after a federal appeals court ruled the ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Three more West Virginia counties are being added to the state court system’s family treatment court program. The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources allocated up to $1.5 million in connection with a recent pharmaceutical ...

LOS ANGELES — Angelina Jolie asked Monday that the private judge overseeing her divorce from Brad Pitt be disqualified from the case because of insufficient disclosures of his business relationships with one of Pitt’s attorneys. In a filing in Los ...