Maryland Family Law Maryland family law opinions and commentary

A Pennsylvania man who says that he and his deceased partner privately exchanged vows to create a common-law marriage more than 20 years ago has adequately shown the marriage exists in order bring a wrongful death lawsuit in Maryland, the ...

A father’s anger and negative statements about his son’s sexual orientation qualifies as mental abuse that justifies a final protective order, Maryland’s second-highest court found in a newly reported opinion. The Maryland Appellate Court affirmed a protective order against the ...

Maryland’s top court has indefinitely suspended a Montgomery County lawyer for obstructing a contentious divorce case and making misleading statements about the proceedings to judges and opposing counsel. The lawyer, Richard L. Sloane, will be allowed to apply for reinstatement ...

Although a court ruled in 2011 that a woman’s 1991 divorce judgment was void, because the wife waited until 2020 — which was 13 years after her husband died — before asserting any interest in his estate her claim is ...