Maryland Family Law Maryland family law opinions and commentary

PORTLAND, Ore. — An Oregon widow has filed a $1 million lawsuit against a woman she believes was having an extramarital affair with her husband. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports the lawsuit was filed Friday in Benton County Circuit Court. In the ...

A federal appeals court has overturned an earlier ruling that said a South Dakota county must give Native American parents more rights during initial hearings of child-removal cases.

FRANKFORT, Ky. — The Kentucky Supreme Court has been asked to decide whether a convicted sex offender can spend time alone with his own children. The Courier Journal reports that 33-year-old Ryan Scott Stone pleaded guilty to third-degree sodomy of ...

ST. LOUIS — A St. Louis suburb will revise a law that allowed for eviction of residents who made repeated emergency calls after a lawsuit alleged that the ordinance punished victims of domestic violence. The American Civil Liberties Union on ...

WORCESTER, Mass. — A Massachusetts man has pleaded guilty to entering into six sham marriages with foreign women over a 10-year period to help them skirt U.S. immigration laws. The Telegram & Gazette reports that 58-year-old Peter Hicks pleaded guilty ...

LYNCHBURG, Va. — The private Christian university founded by Jerry Falwell has been dismissed from a long-running lawsuit over an international kidnapping that followed the dissolution of a same-sex civil union. The News & Advance reports a Vermont-based judge dismissed ...

MEXICO CITY — Amnesty International says a proposed Guatemalan law on abortion providers and gay couples is “absurd.” The Guatemalan congress is debating proposals that would ban recognition for same-sex couples and forbid teaching that homosexuality is acceptable. Amnesty said ...

Amnesty International urged Malaysia to quash a caning sentence for a lesbian couple, calling the punishment cruel and unjust.

AUGUSTA, Maine — Maine’s Republican governor has proposed child welfare bills that include making failing to report child abuse a crime. The Legislature’s Health and Human Services committee will discuss Gov. Paul LePage’s four bills Monday. LePage wants to remove ...

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Costa Rica’s supreme court has given the country’s legislature 18 months to change the law to allow gay marriage. The court voted Wednesday night to make gay marriage legal, declaring that existing laws banning it ...