Maryland Family Law Maryland family law opinions and commentary

A Pennsylvania man who says that he and his deceased partner privately exchanged vows to create a common-law marriage more than 20 years ago has adequately shown the marriage exists in order bring a wrongful death lawsuit in Maryland, the ...

A father’s anger and negative statements about his son’s sexual orientation qualifies as mental abuse that justifies a final protective order, Maryland’s second-highest court found in a newly reported opinion. The Maryland Appellate Court affirmed a protective order against the ...

BOSTON — When child welfare workers and police knocked on Sarah Perkins’ and Joshua Sabey’s front door well past midnight one weekend last summer, the parents were shocked to learn the state of Massachusetts had come to take their two ...

A Virginia woman who left the United States for more than a decade with her child to avoid sharing custody of her daughter with her former partner says her lawyer suggested she flee. In a document filed May 19 in ...

Maryland’s laws regarding divorce are about to undergo significant changes that will substantially impact how attorneys practice law and what relief may be afforded to our clients. Gov. Wes Moore has signed into law legislation passed in the 2023 General ...

Getting a divorce will soon become a little easier in Maryland, thanks to a change in state law. The Maryland General Assembly Senate Bill 36 and House Bill 14, now signed into law by Gov. Wes Moore, repeals most existing grounds for an ...

Maryland Rule 9-204.1 became effective Jan. 1, 2020. Under the rule, parties to a family law action in circuit court are required to work together to create a joint Parenting Plan which they believe is in the child’s best interests. ...

RICHMOND, Va. — Where an out-of-state trustee engaged in sustained correspondence with Virginia-based trust beneficiaries, registered to conduct business in Virginia, has a registered agent in Virginia, and made distributions to the beneficiaries in Virginia, it was subject to personal ...

SEOUL, South Korea — A South Korean court on Tuesday ordered the country’s biggest adoption agency to pay 100 million won ($74,700) in damages to a 48-year-old man for mishandling his adoption as a child to the United States, where ...

Every lawyer who practices matrimonial law has had a case (and maybe several) in which it seems that they are living a Kafkaesque novel. However, there is a case in New York County Supreme Court that is remarkable. That case ...