Maryland Family Law Maryland family law opinions and commentary

Prosecutors played the video in federal court Monday, the third day of Epstein's trial on charges of conspiracy to commit kidnapping and attempted kidnapping.

"What mom’s feeding Johnny for dinner, and the sports gear not coming back and forth from house to house" — there’s a better way to handle these types of issues, Paul Reinstein says, though not enough people know enough to take advantage of it.

A good deal of the emphasis is on helping clients adjust to their new reality post-divorce — and the financial framework helps to shape this picture. A spouse who, for example, wants to keep the family home may reconsider when presented with the true cost of doing so — not only in dollars and cents, but in missed opportunities to accomplish other goals.

Under the Rape Survivor Family Protection Act, sponsored by state Senator Jamin B. 'Jamie' Raskin, D-Montgomery, a court could declare that a man is not the legal father of a child he conceived from an alleged rape.

In a trio of cases pending in Montgomery County Circuit Court, Foulger-Pratt founder Sidney Foulger's children accuse Florence Tung of taking advantage of their father’s declining mental health to isolate him and misappropriate millions of dollars.

Now that the SEC has established that former billionaire Sam Wyly was operating an illegal offshore stock-trading scheme, Wyly's ex-wife has filed suit against him seeking 50 percent of any stock that wasn't disclosed during their 1991 divorce.

The Maryland General Assembly enters its three-month session with the results of a year-long study on child custody decisions in its hands, and with a longtime proponent of reforming the state’s divorce laws newly in charge of a key Senate committee.

Accusations of sexual abuse by a parent can be judged under a “preponderance of evidence” standard in visitation cases even if all visitation is denied, the Court of Special Appeals has held. The Court of Appeals left the question open in a footnote several years ago when it decided Volodarsky v. Tarachanskaya, 397 Md. 291 (2007).

As the new executive director of the Women’s Law Center of Maryland, Michelle Siri has a lot on her plate: the center’s work ranges from representing survivors of domestic violence in court to advocating for legislation in Annapolis.

Several family-law mavens and domestic-violence prosecutors were on the list of judicial appointments Gov. Martin O'Malley made in the waning days of 2014 -- and, of course, his second and final term. Among the 10 appointees: