Maryland Family Law Maryland family law opinions and commentary

RICHMOND, VA — A Fairfax County circuit judge handling a divorce has ruled that a prenuptial agreement puts an increase in value of the husband’s separate property out of reach of the wife. The decision is the latest chapter in ...

The abrupt transition to remote working caused by COVID-19 uncovered gaps in many law firms’ back office services SOPs. How will mail be processed? How can I get things printed? Who can facilitate deliveries? And these are just a handful ...

DETROIT, MI — The petitioner married her husband after a two-year engagement during which they lived in different states. Two days before their wedding in Michigan, the decedent picked up the petitioner from the airport and told her for the ...

Lawmakers, advocates and attorneys statewide are hoping to better protect children in custody cases involving abuse or neglect by implementing more training for judges and custody evaluators and by amending current family law rules. Many of the proposed changes stem ...

DETROIT, MI — A mother has successfully appealed a Michigan trial court’s adoption of a North Carolina court’s temporary emergency custody order as permanent because it did not act in accordance with the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act, ...

BOSTON — An ex-wife had standing under the Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act to bring an action to recover millions of dollars in marital assets that her former spouse allegedly hid during divorce proceedings before gifting to his alma mater, the ...

DETROIT, MI — What was supposed to be a prenup ended up as a postnuptial agreement. And even though postnuptial agreements aren’t enforceable per se, the Marquette County Circuit Court nonetheless said this one was OK under Michigan law — ...

RICHMOND, VA — Even though the trial court had in rem jurisdiction over husband to issue a divorce decree, it lacked in personam jurisdiction to enter a child support award, the Virginia Court of Appeals has ruled. Wife’s argument that ...

RALEIGH, NC — A family court judge shouldn’t have accounted for the fact that a plaintiff was about to lose her job before deciding whether she had the means to pay for her own attorneys’ fees in a child custody ...

It’s hard to believe that in the span of just a few short months, lawyers across the country have suddenly become technologically adept and are using a host of remote technology tools, including videoconferencing software. In the blink of an ...