Maryland Family Law Maryland family law opinions and commentary

DETROIT, MI — Oral argument before the Michigan Supreme Court has been ordered in a case where a woman who owed more than $50,000 in attorneys’ fees to a law firm for her divorce ended up owing more than $367,000. ...

DETROIT, MI — A Farmington Hills lawyer and her namesake law firm were awarded almost $80,000 in fees in 2019 after suing a client in a collection matter. Now, that award will stand after first being tossed by the appeals ...

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 ...