Maryland Family Law Maryland family law opinions and commentary

The number of U.S. children orphaned during the COVID-19 pandemic may be larger than previously estimated, and the toll has been far greater among Black and Hispanic Americans, a new study suggests. More than half the children who lost a ...

SAN ANTONIO  — A Bexar County judge denied an attorney’s motion to remove a 5-year-old boy from his foster home because his foster parents aren’t vaccinated against COVID-19. Senior Judge Susan Reed initially ruled that the boy should be removed ...

PORTLAND, Maine — A jury has convicted a Russian man on multiple charges related to visa fraud for paying a Maine woman to enter a sham marriage and later falsely claiming to be the father of a child with her. ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The federal government is funding organizations that illegally discriminate against LGBTQ candidates to become foster care parents for unaccompanied refugee children, a lawsuit filed Wednesday alleges. According to the 29-page complaint, Kelly Easter has been turned away ...

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 ...

COLUMBIA, Mo.  — Missouri lawmakers on Tuesday grilled state officials over a federal investigation that found nearly 1,000 foster children went missing in 2019, and at least one was sex-trafficked. Federal authorities helped Missouri search for the missing 978 children ...

TOPEKA, Kan.  — Gov. Laura Kelly on Monday created an independent office to review complaints against Kansas’ foster care system and recommend changes in child welfare policies, a longtime goal of advocates for abused and neglected children. The Democratic governor’s ...

LOS ANGELES — Britney Spears has been freed from her father. And she could be freed entirely from court control within weeks. In a major victory for the pop star, a judge on Wednesday suspended the singer’s father from the ...

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 ...