Maryland Family Law Maryland family law opinions and commentary

CAIRO — Egypt’s president said Tuesday he was alarmed by his country’s high divorce rate, suggesting a ground-breaking legislation to delegalize divorces verbally declared by Muslim men to their spouses, the latest foray by the general-turned-president into thorny social and ...

MOSCOW — The speaker of Russia’s upper house of parliament said Wednesday Moscow is willing to open discussions about rescinding the ban on Americans adopting Russian children. The ban was imposed in 2012, prompted by a U.S. law sanctioning some ...

ST. PAUL — After months of meetings and many hours of debate, the Legislative Commission on Surrogacy last month issued its final recommendations to the Legislature on ways to regulate gestational surrogacy. The decision was not without controversy. The approved recommendations—which ...

WASHINGTON — Expecting a baby? Congratulations! Better put plenty of money in your savings account. The Department of Agriculture says the estimated cost of raising a child from birth through age 17 is $233,610, or as much as almost $14,000 ...

SANTA FE, N.M. — The number of northern New Mexico residents seeking custody of abused and neglected children born to relatives has skyrocketed in the past two years. People who work in the state’s family courts system say opiate addiction ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Jane Levy never thought she would follow in her mother’s footsteps. “You spend your childhood saying, ‘I’m not going to be just like my parents,'” she said. “It just sort of seeps in.” The 38-year-old was appointed ...

GRAHAM, N.C. — Three of the boys in Kim Currie’s Parenting and Child Development class are rocking crying newborns. The babies are actually RealCare Infant Simulators — high-tech dolls that cry, burp, slurp, giggle, and send data to Currie to ...

TRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey is joining 19 other states that allow adults who were adopted access to their birth certificates, something that previously was available only by court order. The birth parents of as many as 300,000 children who ...

While prenuptial agreements have traditionally served the purpose of protecting the accumulated assets of those who are marrying later in life or are marrying for the second or third time, millennials have increasingly been requesting them in recent years, family law attorneys said.

NICOLLET, Minn. — A blanket holds special meaning to 16-year-old Hailey Sherwood of Nicollet. Her foster parents, now her adoptive parents, bought her a Winnie the Pooh blanket when she was first brought to their home at six months old. ...