Maryland Family Law Maryland family law opinions and commentary

Fauzia Din, a naturalized citizen, was told only that her petition for a visa for her spouse was rejected. She argues that she is entitled to a specific reason, based on her marital rights under the Constitution.

A six-figure failure to pay child support warranted disbarment of an attorney after more than 20 years in practice. "The duty of a parent to support his or her children is no less important than the duty of an attorney to act responsibly when handling client funds...," the Kentucky Supreme Court said. "Furthermore, as officers of the court, attorneys have a duty to follow court orders, and we have disbarred attorneys for, in part, failing to do so.”

If so, march forth on March 4th to the County Courts Building in Towson for the third installment of Family Law Litigation 101, an evening series presented by the Baltimore County Bar Association’s Family Law and Young Lawyers’ Committee.

Mendel Epstein — the Orthodox rabbi who allegedly would use beatings, cattle prods and other methods of persuasion to convince husbands to grant a "get," the ritual Jewish divorce required before believers can remarry — is set to go on trial Wednesday on attempted kidnapping charges.

Family law is a big tent -- and as we saw with the EOB bill, sometimes that tent needs to cover health-care law. With all the news about measles outbreaks and the dispute over vaccination requirements, Daily Record reporter and Maryland Family Law Update contributor Lauren Kirkwood looked at Maryland's law.

After completing 30 hours of classroom training and two to three hours of court observation, the 12 were sworn in by Baltimore City Circuit Judge Robert Kershaw and are now officially able to help abused or neglected children in foster care.

Dumais defended herself and other family-law practitioners against what she called “spurious” accusations that they deliberately file motions and drag out litigation to increase their fees.

Our May 2014 Q&A with Ferrier Stillman, “What family lawyers need to know about the EOB law,” was used this week to help brief the Health Insurance Subcommittee on implementing the Explanation of Benefits law that passed last session

Now that the SEC has established that former billionaire Sam Wyly was operating an illegal offshore stock-trading scheme, Wyly's ex-wife has filed suit against him seeking 50 percent of any stock that wasn't disclosed during their 1991 divorce.

Sue Ann Arnall, ex-wife of fracking baron Harold Hamm, has no intention of taking her $975 million and calling it a day.