Maryland Family Law Maryland family law opinions and commentary

Year after year, several thousand women in the U.S. carry an unintended pregnancy to term and then offer the baby for adoption. It’s a choice commended by many foes of abortion. Yet despite a huge demand for babies from Americans ...

BOSTON — Massachusetts Attorney General Maura T. Healey’s office has issued its stamp of approval on an Arlington bylaw redefining domestic partnerships to include relationships consisting of more than two people. The AG’s Office concluded in a Dec. 23 letter ...

RICHMOND, VA — Where the parties each claim the other violated their oral agreement concerning living together and sharing expenses after the final divorce decree was entered, their property settlement agreement, which provides that any modifications must be in writing, ...

A coalition of community groups demanded Monday that a special prosecutor be appointed in the case of a Black youth who died following a physical struggle with staff at a Kansas juvenile center. In a Wichita rally and letter to ...

PHOENIX — Ten nonlawyer legal paraprofessionals will soon begin work in Arizona, offering legal services in limited practice areas previously restricted to licensed attorneys. The creation of this new level of legal services provider is an effort to narrow the ...

A mediator was acting as a lawyer when he drafted a divorce agreement and should not be shielded from legal malpractice and negligence claims over alleged drafting defects, a Massachusetts Superior Court judge has decided. The mediator had offered the ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration has taken the extraordinary step of marshaling state employees to handle investigations for a Philadelphia nonprofit struggling to hire enough caseworkers to field allegations of the neglect or abuse of older people. Secretary ...

Family law legislation this coming Maryland General Assembly session will be aimed at protecting low- income residents going through divorce, children of jailed guardians and people being stalked by technologically savvy ex-spouses. A bill will also be reintroduced for the ...

YAKIMA, Wash. — The state of Washington has agreed to a $4 million settlement for two former foster children who were abused and sexually assaulted. The record-breaking settlement comes out of a sex abuse lawsuit for the two sisters, who ...

The Maryland Court of Special Appeals ruled that the circuit court did not err in finding that a third-party was not a de facto parent, where the third party failed to establish that one of the parents, despite battling a drug ...