Maryland Family Law Maryland family law opinions and commentary

CINA — Change in permanency plan — Reunification with mother to adoption by non-relative This is a Child in Need of Assistance (CINA) case involving an eight-year-old child (H.J.). The appeal is by the child’s mother (Mother) from an Order ...

CINA — Hearsay — Content of public records The Circuit Court for Montgomery County, sitting as a juvenile court, granted the first amended petition of the Montgomery Department of Health and Human Services (“the Department”) and ordered that N. R.-P. ...

CINA — Termination of parental rights — Due process B. B.-O. (“Mother”) and J. T.-O. (“Father”) appeal the order of the Circuit Court for Caroline County, sitting as a juvenile court, terminating their parental rights to their daughter, D. T.-O. ...

CINA — Termination of parental rights — Sufficiency of evidence This consolidated appeal concerns the biological parents of a child born in September 2017. The child was placed in foster care when she was two weeks old, while the mother ...

CINA — Mother’s failure to appear in juvenile court — Suspension of visitation In 2019, the Child Welfare Services (“CWS”) division of the Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services (“the Department”), appellee, filed Child in Need of Assistance ...

CINA — Supervised visitation — Anger management This case arises from an order of the Circuit Court for Baltimore City, sitting as a juvenile court, adjudicating J.D. as a child in need of assistance (“CINA”) and providing that Father, appellant, ...

CINA — Change in permanency plan — Custody by non-relative to custody by foster parents Z.C. (“Father”), the father of four-year-old A.P., appeals an order entered by the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County, sitting as a juvenile court, that ...

CINA — Change in permanency plan — From concurrent to sole plan of custody and guardianship This appeal arises from an order by the Circuit Court for Baltimore City, sitting as a juvenile court, which changed the permanency plan for ...

CINA — Motion to vacate CINA order — Evidentiary and procedural defects This is an appeal by A.W. (“Mother”) from the April 12, 2021 order of the Circuit Court for Cecil County, sitting as a juvenile court, finding her infant ...

CINA — Statutory requirements — Adherence This case is before us from the Circuit Court for Cecil County, sitting as the juvenile court, where minor child M.H. was determined to be a Child in Need of Assistance (“CINA”) after contested ...