MINNEAPOLIS — On Feb. 19, 2019, the Minnesota Court of Appeals issued an unpublished custody modification decision in In re the Marriage of Rothen. Reversal was not terribly surprising. However, the fact that the affidavits from the parties’ children were ...

BOSTON — A wife’s receipt of alimony from a prior ex-husband did not preclude her from entering into an economical marital partnership with the man she would eventually marry and was now divorcing, the Supreme Judicial Court ruled on Thursday. ...

BALTIMORE  — Maryland’s top court will consider whether the general prohibition on minor children suing their parents survives the child’s death, thus barring a youngster’s estate from suing a parent for wrongful death. The Court of Appeals in March agreed ...

RALEIGH, N.C. — Ashley Edwards is a bankruptcy attorney for Parker Poe in Charlotte, and so most of her hours are spent dealing in numbers. But on her own time, she researches the plights of children who are abused and ...

RICHMOND, Va. — A Shenandoah County couple says they were encouraged to adopt a child by social services employees who suppressed a report that the child had committed sexual battery of another child. The couple is suing employees of the ...

DETROIT, MI — In the second trial of a legal malpractice case, an Oakland County Circuit Court jury awarded more than triple the original verdict amount after the case was appealed and then remanded for a retrial. In Toteff v. ...

RICHMOND, VA — Although the wife was in an exclusive, continuous, monogamous relationship with another man following her separation from husband, because they maintained separate residences, the trial court did not err by holding that husband failed to prove the ...

BOSTON — While vacating decrees terminating the parental rights of a Guatemalan national father deported in 2009, the Appeals Court on Feb. 4 highlighted the “overall problematic nature of the findings of fact and conclusions of law” made by Probate ...

DETROIT, MI — A judgment ordering payment of a mahr, a traditional component of Islamic marriages, was affirmed by a Michigan Court of Appeals panel. In Ali v. Syed, the panel affirmed the Kent County Circuit Court in holding that ...

RICHMOND, VA — Divorce lawyers accused of using dirt uncovered by illegal recordings and computer snooping have no blanket protection against a lawsuit based on state and federal wiretap laws, a federal judge has ruled. Allegations in the case mirror ...