Maryland Family Law Maryland family law opinions and commentary

RICHMOND, VA — A lawyer who sought to keep a divorce case from going dormant after the opposing party filed for bankruptcy has been hit with $6,050 in sanctions by a Richmond bankruptcy judge who concluded the actions of the ...

The Connecticut House of Representatives voted Tuesday to grant all adoptees in Connecticut access to their birth certificates, following an emotional and personal debate over whether the privacy rights of certain birth parents should trump those of adoptees seeking information ...

A divorcing couple’s fight over the fate of their frozen pre-embryo will return to trial after Maryland’s second-highest court ruled Thursday that a judge’s decision to await an agreement between the warring spouses was premature because the wife wants to ...

SANTA FE, N.M. — New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas said last week that he is “highly concerned” about government employees potentially deleting public information after questions were raised about the communication practices of the state agency that oversees foster ...

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. ...

SALT LAKE CITY — A former Arizona politician could serve up to 15 years in prison for operating an illegal adoption scheme involving women from the Marshall Islands after he was given his third sentence Wednesday in Utah. Paul Petersen ...

Cheri Williams looks back with regret at the start of her career as a child welfare caseworker in 1998. Systemic racism is a major reason why. “I removed probably about 100 kids from their homes in the 15 months I ...

BOSTON — A group of litigants who say that their lives went downhill once Essex County Probate & Family Court Judge Abbe L. Ross labeled them the “bad guy” in their divorce and child custody proceedings hope a “bill of ...

RICHMOND, VA — With only two negative votes, the Virginia State Bar Council has endorsed an explicit ban on lawyers engaging in sexual relations with clients. The only exception is if the intimate relationship predates the lawyer-client relationship. The VSB ...

DETROIT (AP) — A woman who gave birth to twins during a same-sex relationship is considered a parent for the purpose of custody, even if she has no genetic ties to the girls, the Michigan Court of Appeals ruled. It’s ...