Maryland Family Law Maryland family law opinions and commentary

HARTFORD, Conn. — Long before she disappeared, Jennifer Dulos told the court handling her divorce case that her husband was verbally abusive and she feared for her life. And well before Fotis Dulos was arrested this week on murder and ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee announced Tuesday that he’ll sign into law a measure that would assure continued taxpayer funding of faith-based foster care and adoption agencies even if they exclude LGBT families and others based on religious ...

ALBANY, N.Y. — New York has become the 10th state to allow adopted adults unrestricted access to their original birth certificates, a step that will help some investigate their family histories. A new law effective Wednesday does away with restrictions ...

RICHMOND, Virginia — Even though a father had a protective order in place against the mother, a circuit judge still was within his discretion to order joint legal custody of the divorced couple’s child, the Court of Appeals has ruled ...

Family law attorneys receive threats of violence and experience violence more often than their peers elsewhere in the legal profession. But it is a part of their practice that is not frequently discussed. Attorneys who attended the annual symposium of ...

Sheila K. Sachs, a pioneering family law practitioner and a prominent member of the legal community, died of cancer April 21. The Baltimore resident was 78. Sachs, a partner at Gordon Feinblatt LLC, had a law practice that included litigating ...

BOSTON — It all began nearly 20 years ago as I sat in a rocking chair nursing my new baby, a girl born during a historic winter so cold and icy we barely left the house for months. Instead, day ...

MILWAUKEE — With a new legislative session underway, once again there are efforts to require Wisconsin family courts to order equal physical placement in every – or virtually every – case. These efforts are generally being made by male advocacy groups ...

ANNAPOLIS – The statutory duty of Marylanders to report suspected child abuse to law enforcement trumps the general rule that private communications between spouses are inadmissible at trial, Maryland’s top court ruled Tuesday in reinstating the murder conviction of an ...

DETROIT — A Michigan Court of Appeals panel vacated a post-judgment order awarding spousal support 37 years after a divorce. In Gallagher v. Gallagher (MiLW No. 08-99564, 3 pages), the panel agreed with the defense that the Oakland County Circuit ...