Maryland Family Law Maryland family law opinions and commentary

  Greenbelt-based Joseph, Greenwald & Laake, PA is expanding its family law practice with the addition of four attorneys from the former Rockville-based law firm Dragga Hannon LLP. The four attorneys who joined Joseph Greenwald as of Jan. 1 are ...

Family law practitioners are working with clients going through some of the most stressful life events, and an upcoming event will highlight the trauma that both attorneys and clients can experience. Family Law University, a continuing legal education event by ...

The legal community’s efforts to help ensure that attorneys stay well, both mentally and physically, has become a movement during the past few years. While there has long been help for attorneys suffering from or at risk for substance abuse, ...

ANNAPOLIS – Saying the jury was improperly instructed on the violent crime’s elements, a divided Maryland high court has overturned the first-degree child abuse conviction of a father who allegedly wrapped his son in plastic and tied his wrists to ...

WASHINGTON — Two somewhat contradictory sides of the new Supreme Court were on display Tuesday: The justices extended their efforts to maintain a low-key term mostly free of hot-button issues, while at the same time the court’s reinforced conservatives gave ...

RICHMOND, VA — Where a husband purchased a home in Washington state with his former high-school girlfriend in March 2016, which was several months before he left the marital residence in July 2016, the circuit court did not abuse its ...

ANNAPOLIS – Legislation will soon be introduced to remove a controversial provision in Maryland family law that sharply reduces noncustodial parents’ child-support obligations once they have hosted their children overnight 128 times in a year. Opponents of the current provision ...

Wendy Paris and her ex-husband David have been divorced for seven years. In that time, they’ve both moved from New York to Los Angeles, but have never lived more than three blocks from one another. They still host parties together. ...

PIERRE, S.D. — A retired South Dakota police officer asked the state’s Supreme Court last week to allow her to collect state retirement system survivor benefits after her wife, a former police captain, died of cancer. An attorney for retired ...

Tens of thousands of embryos are stuck in limbo in fertility clinics, leftovers from pregnancy attempts and broken dreams of parenthood. Some are outright abandoned by people who quit paying storage fees and can’t be found. In other cases, couples ...