Maryland Family Law Maryland family law opinions and commentary

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A young man with severe autism must stay in the custody of Missouri’s child welfare agency, despite soon turning 21, a judge ruled last week. Jackson County Judge Kea Bird-Riley also ordered that he remain in ...

CHICAGO — A prominent Chicago family law attorney who was charged last summer with sexually assaulting a colleague has been charged with doing the same thing to two other women, including a client who says he told her that if ...

SEATTLE — The Washington state agency that investigates child abuse said it has received 59% fewer reports of misconduct per week this school year as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. The state Department of Children, Youth, and Families also ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana is the top state in the nation for increasing the number of children adopted from foster care, according to state and federal officials. In the 2019 fiscal year, 2,489 Hoosier children were adopted through the Indiana Department ...

TOPEKA, Kan. — The head of the Kansas agency responsible for foster care in the state told lawmakers improvements have already been made in response to a scathing federal report and the settlement of class-action lawsuits over care foster children ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Three more West Virginia counties are being added to the state court system’s family treatment court program. The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources allocated up to $1.5 million in connection with a recent pharmaceutical ...

  LOS ANGELES — Unarmed social workers instead of police would respond to nonviolent calls for service under a proposal Tuesday from several City Council members following nationwide calls for law enforcement reforms in the wake of George Floyd’s killing. ...

CHICAGO — Dozens of immigrant children in U.S. custody and living in three Chicago-area shelters have tested positive for COVID-19, officials said April 14. The Chicago-based Heartland Alliance operates shelters where children in the Department of Health and Human Services’ ...

GREAT FALLS, Montana — A pair of Darth Vaders strode up the aisle of the Cascade County District Courthouse in Great Falls last month to the opening drumbeats of the Imperial March. Where the prosecuting attorneys normally sit, twin lightsabers ...

VALPARAISO, Indiana — A northwestern Indiana judge declined to release a pregnant inmate from jail after her mother pleaded to keep her locked up, saying her daughter’s history of substance abuse threatens the life of her unborn child. Porter Superior ...