Maryland Family Law Maryland family law opinions and commentary

BOSTON — Divorce attorneys are having their problem-solving skills fully tested by the COVID crisis, tackling issues ranging from disputes between parents with diametrically opposed views on masking and social distancing to the valuation of family businesses that might never ...

The pandemic has taught us how amazing technologies like FaceTime and Zoom can be in connecting us to the loved ones we can’t be with physically. But it’s also been a lesson in all the ways that those substitutes for ...

For years, the question of whether child custody and visitation issues can be submitted to binding arbitration with no oversight by the family court and no right of review by an appellate tribunal has been bouncing around in South Carolina’s ...

Three-parent adoptions have been happening in Massachusetts for more than two decades. While the adults in those adoptions have been acquiring all the rights that go along with parenthood, some have had a hard time asserting those rights because they ...

RICHMOND, VA — Where wife obtained a protective order after husband assaulted her, this did not amount to her deserting him for purposes of determining a spousal support award, the Virginia Court of Appeals has ruled. A three-judge panel of ...

ST. LOUIS, MO — Judges can now approve lifelong protection orders. The same law — part of a bill passed this year that went into effect Aug. 28 — also adds to the legal definition of stalking and reduces the ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Under the dark suits, every family lawyer has a history worth sharing. But how much do we really know about one another, beyond an attorney identification number and the name on firm letterhead? So much of our work ...

A team at FormsPal.com, a website that provides free legal forms, recently compiled data about divorce patterns across the country affected by COVID-19. Their prognosis was that pandemics aren’t so good for marriage. Statistics related to divorce settlement agreements accessed ...

RICHMOND, VA — Appellant was properly convicted of rape after he forced his wife to have sex despite her repeated attempts to push him away and requests to stop, the Virginia Court of Apppeals has ruled in affirming a trial ...

BOSTON, MA — If there eventually is to be a silver lining to the ordeal endured by the child at the center of the recent Appeals Court case Guardianship of Keanu, it will be that it got the attention of ...