Maryland Family Law Maryland family law opinions and commentary

An attorney has been ordered to pay $1.2 million to a client in a Virginia divorce action — the amount of alimony she claims she would have received but for the attorney’s negligence.

Its a criminal case and quasi-constitutional. But when a jilted wife tries to poison her husband’s pregnant mistress, how can we not claim it for family law?

Now we know: It IS possible to be too zealous.

"Why is it that there is all this ceremony to getting married, and no ceremony at all when you get unmarried? Shouldn't you have to look the person in the eye and apologize to them when all is said and done?" That’s the question that spurred HuffPost blogger Lara Lillibridge to imagine what such a divorce ritual would look like.

The estranged wife of a lottery winner is entitled to just 2.5 percent of his $2 million winnings because the couple was already separated at the time of the drawing, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled in late April.

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by a divorced woman who claimed that her religious employer fired her for “failing to reconcile her marriage” but took no such action against similarly situated male employees.

Prenups still aren’t binding in England and Wales, but law offices there have seen a “surge” in the number of people inquiring about them, the Telegraph reports.