State lawmakers are eyeing 2022 as the year Maryland abolishes the use of marriage as a defense against rape. “This is and should be a no-brainer,” said Del. Charlotte Crutchfield, D-Montgomery, who has sponsored legislation in the House that would ...

Jessica Markham is a family law attorney practicing in Maryland and Washington, D.C. She is the managing attorney at Markham Law Firm, which she founded in 2015, and is the author of “Representing Federal Employees and Their Spouses in Divorce: ...

Shanta Trivedi is a law professor who recently took over as faculty director at the Sayra and Neil Meyerhoff Center for Families, Children and the Courts at the University of Baltimore School of Law. We sat down with Trivedi to ...

Britney Spears pleaded with a Los Angeles Superior Court judge in June to end a long-running conservatorship run by her father, James P. Spears, the latest in a contentious battle to dissolve a powerful legal tool that has dominated the ...

High-earning Maryland residents worried about an impending bump in child support pay come October are getting a reprieve, thanks to the pandemic. In May legislators passed a bill postponing the implementation of new guidelines that would take the existing matrix ...

When the General Assembly session opened in January, family law professionals and legislators had high hopes for a myriad of bills targeting divorce and custody proceedings, long-standing agenda items sidelined by the pandemic that had abbreviated the 2020 legislative session. ...

Waltraud Regina and Thomas Kramer married in 2003. They underwent a religious ceremony, lived together, and owned property. The only issue? They failed to obtain a marriage license. More than a decade later Regina transferred her interest in the property ...

Organizations statewide are scrambling to provide services for constituents as they face funding cuts resulting from the pandemic, a shift that’s leaving many of the state’s most relied-on services in limbo. Thirty-six organizations receive funding from the Maryland Legal Services ...

In a post-pandemic world, Donna K. Rismiller will offer employees hybrid remote work, while Brian Pearlstein foresees Zoom meetings with clients. “We’ll probably never go back to full time in the office,” said Rismiller, a principal at RLG Law. While ...

As the 2021 General Assembly session approaches, lawmakers in Annapolis are focusing attention toward agenda items halted by this year’s shortened session because of the coronavirus pandemic. While much of the upcoming legislative session will focus on COVID-19 relief, budget ...