Maryland Family Law Maryland family law opinions and commentary

RICHMOND, VA — A Roanoke lawyer has agreed to a three-year and six-month suspension amid bar allegations that he tried to cover up a botched divorce that led to a $742,000 legal malpractice judgment. In a May 17 hearing, Charles ...

MINNEAPOLIS, MN — The state does not have to prove that a child actually is in need of protection or services to convict a defendant of encouraging that need, the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled in the case of a man ...

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK — A new law in Oklahoma is designed to help children more easily become self-sufficient after aging out of the state’s foster care system. The law lowers from 18 to 16 the age that a child in ...

RICHMOND, VA — Even though a lawyer being sued for malpractice in a divorce case was the wife’s second attorney, the first attorney is not a necessary party to the lawsuit, a federal judge has ruled. In a May 4 ...

RALEIGH, N.C. — The minimum age to get married in North Carolina would increase from 14 to 16 under legislation unanimously approved by the state Senate on Wednesday. Backers of the measure say it reflects a compromise from the original ...

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 ...

DENVER — The Colorado House passed a measure Wednesday that would require people facing domestic violence protection orders to report their firearms, coming just days after a man shot and killed six people in a domestic dispute in Colorado Springs. ...

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 ...