Maryland Family Law Maryland family law opinions and commentary

ST. LOUIS, MO — The Missouri Supreme Court has reinstated the license of a St. Louis divorce attorney who was suspended in 2019 for violating a rule prohibiting lawyers from having sexual relations with clients. The court reinstated the license ...

ST. LOUIS, MO — A Missouri appeals court has declined to grant a grandmother visitation rights after ruling that state law does not give her the opportunity to seek them outside of the context of a dissolution proceeding. “As societal ...

RALEIGH, NC — A federal jury has awarded $4.6 million to a father and daughter after finding that Cherokee County and several of its Department of Social Services’ employees created and executed a fraudulent document to remove the girl from ...

PROVIDENCE, RI — The state Supreme Court has found no infirmity in the denial of a divorced mother’s motion to relocate to another state with her minor daughter, determining that the lower judge appropriately considered the relevant Dupre standards before ...

PROVIDENCE, RI — An attorney may have had a professional duty to incorporate into prenuptial and postnuptial agreements specific language protecting income his client generated during the marriage, the Rhode Island Supreme Court has ruled. A Family Court judge had ...

PROVIDENCE, RI — The Rhode Island Supreme Court has declined to disturb a lower judge’s decision on the equitable distribution of a divorcing couple’s marital assets and debts, concluding that he did not misconstrue evidence regarding the parties’ relative contributions ...

RICHMOND, VA — A circuit court ruling that “undue influence and fraud” was afoot when a lawyer procured a will making himself the primary beneficiary has been upheld by the Supreme Court of Virginia. Despite a challenge to the standing ...

BOSTON, MA — Where a Probate & Family Court judge reduced a father’s child support obligation, the reduction was error because the father failed to meet his burden of demonstrating that such a reduction was warranted. “Ellen S. Robbins (mother) ...

RICHMOND, VA — Where wife counterclaimed for a divorce on grounds of adultery, husband’s alleged paramour cannot claim a Fifth Amendment privilege in response to a civil subpoena duces tecum for existing personal, private information, even if such information is ...

MILWAUKEE, WI — Several changes to Wisconsin statutes governing child support and placement of children were signed into law last month. Gov. Tony Evers signed 17 bills, including four proposals that will affect children and their parents and their dealings ...