Maryland Family Law Maryland family law opinions and commentary

Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison's ex-wife said that divorce records set to be released contain sensitive information about her mental health and no indication of physical abuse, but an appeals court denied their bid to keep them private.

The landmark law governing adoptions of Native American children, designed to keep them within Native American families, has been struck down as unconstitutional by a federal judge in Texas.

As the deportees were led off the plane onto the steamy San Salvador tarmac, an anguished Araceli Ramos Bonilla burst into tears burst into tears, her face contorted with pain: 'They want to steal my daughter!'

A social worker has left the Iowa Department of Human Services months after a judge found she repeatedly gave false testimony against a mother and father who were unfairly stripped of their parental rights.

The five-member court struck down a 158-year-old law that treated adultery in certain cases as a criminal offense punishable by up to five years in prison.

California courts could be going to the dogs — and maybe cats, too — under a new law granting judges authority to settle disagreements over who keeps the family pet in divorce cases the same way they handle child-custody disputes.

Women's rights groups say failure-to-protect laws in Oklahoma and a few other mostly conservative states can lead to harsher punishments for abused and frightened mothers than for child abusers themselves.

As the number of stored eggs and embryos rises in the United States, people desperate to become parents are bonding with potential future children at the earliest stages, when they are still just a few dozen cells. A freezer malfunction has highlighted that bond – and sparked a debate over what, exactly, was lost.

There may be no better place than Family Court to get a crash course in what ails society.

Five months before a Florida toddler was found dead, his court-appointed child advocate told a magistrate that the boy should not be returned to his mother.