Maryland Family Law Maryland family law opinions and commentary

ST. CLOUD, Minn. — After years of working to create a new way to respond to mental health calls, a team of police and community partners is showing results just a few months after its inception. The St. Cloud-area co-responder ...

RALEIGH, NC — A family court judge shouldn’t have accounted for the fact that a plaintiff was about to lose her job before deciding whether she had the means to pay for her own attorneys’ fees in a child custody ...

BELLE PLAINE, Kan. — Kansas’ child welfare agency balked at releasing records about a 3-year-old girl whose battered body was found this month, despite a 2018 law that aimed to make such documents more transparent. That law says Kansas Department ...

On March 25, Brian Pearlstein and his client filed for a modification hearing in Baltimore County. After months of waiting and anticipation, the hearing is scheduled for August 31. His client, a nurse anesthetist based in Texas with a child ...

BOSTON — The Probate & Family Court announced that it is partnering with Public Guardian Services, a Massachusetts nonprofit, on a pilot project for a public guardian in the state. The pilot is expected to begin this month and will ...

NORFOLK, Va. — It’s June 12, 2020. It’s been almost three weeks since Silena and Sean Chapman brought home their third baby, Kevin. Silena, a doctor who specializes in caring for sick and premature infants, is full of energy and ...

GILLETTE, Wyo. — Last year, Kelli Ellison had no interest in being sober. At 15 years old, she’d been using marijuana for two years, and she kept getting into trouble with the law. After three separate marijuana charges, she appeared ...

COLUMBIA, SC — Weighing in on the long-running dispute over the estate of James Brown, the South Carolina Supreme Court ruled that a woman claiming to have been validly married to the Godfather of Soul wasn’t his surviving spouse entitled ...

DETROIT, MI — A divorcing employee may not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in emails he sent from his work account to his divorce attorney, a panel of the Michigan Court of Appeals has ruled, establishing a framework for trial ...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly issued an executive order on Tuesday that will require the state to track foster children’s progress in school, shortly after having vetoed a similar bill last month. In an annual report card ...