Maryland Family Law Maryland family law opinions and commentary

PROVO, Utah — The Utah foster care system is facing a shortage of foster parents statewide, with about 2,700 children currently in foster care and only about 1,400 foster families, according to Dan Webster, nonprofit Utah Foster Care’s director of ...

BUTTE, Montana — A former Montana couple was sentenced March 10 to 13 years in prison for abusing their 12-year-old adopted son, who prosecutors said was handcuffed to a bed in a locked bedroom or cuffed by his hands and ...

BISMARCK, North Dakota — One year into a new North Dakota court program, collaborators say its areas of focus have become clearer for better serving youth and families involved in both the juvenile justice and child welfare systems and for ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — More than three years after the starvation death of a 16-year-old girl in West Des Moines, an Iowa investigation says state workers didn’t act soon enough on child abuse reports about her and her siblings and ...

MAGNOLIA, Mississippi — The daughter of a Mississippi man on trial in the shooting deaths of eight people testified Feb. 17 that he was abusive and beat her frequently. My’Khyiah Godbolt, 12, took the stand at a courthouse in Magnolia, ...

JUNEAU, Alaska — A Utah man pleaded guilty Feb. 7 to second-degree murder in the beating death of his wife during a 2017 family cruise to Alaska. During a hearing Kenneth Manzanares acknowledged details of a plea agreement he’d earlier ...

CHICAGO — A report highlighting persistent problems within Illinois’ child welfare agency showed 123 children died in the past fiscal year despite having had contact with the Department of Children and Family Services. It was the highest number since the ...

TOPEKA, Kansas — Kansas’ governor plans to merge a state agency that has been under fire in recent years over abused children’s deaths with another social services department in the hopes that the state will focus more on preventing problems ...

PIERRE, South Dakota — South Dakota’s attorney general won’t sign a brief in support of the Indian Child Welfare Act, unlike 27 other attorneys general across the country. A federal lawsuit could determine the future of the law aimed at ...

Proposed legislation would prohibit a potential witness who marries a defendant after the date of an alleged crime from claiming the spousal privilege to refrain from testifying. House Bill 64 proposes an exception to the general rule that one spouse ...