A recent Maryland appeals court decision provides a warning to men and women who marry much older, wealthier and ailing people not out of love but in the hope of cashing in when the spouse dies. Because they enter the ...

A Maryland court cannot modify an out-of-state custody order if Maryland is not the child’s home state, even where the custodial parent has unilaterally removed the child from the country, the Court of Special Appeals has held. The state’s intermediate ...

A Maryland appeals court has ordered that a son’s surname revert to his mother’s, saying a lower court had improperly given the father a second chance to have the boy’s name changed to his. Unmarried parents generally have just one ...

Children seeking special immigrant juvenile status to become legal permanent residents of the U.S. do not have to prove their parents left them to “fend for [themselves]” for a circuit court to find they were neglected, the Court of Special ...

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).

Baltimore County grandparents cannot fight for custody of their grandson in Maryland courts based on his mother’s quickly abandoned plan to move here, the Court of Special Appeals has held.

Divorce: Cohabitation: Sexual relations by phone. Court of Special Appeals No. 0405, Sept. Term 2012. Reported. Opinion by Meredith, J. Filed April 30, 2014. Appeal from Montgomery County. Reversed.

When it comes to whether phone sex is cohabitation, the Court of Special Appeals emphatically agreed with Nick Bergeris. So does longtime family-law attorney Jeffrey N. Greenblatt. When the appellate court decided that phone sex alone doesn’t count, it was ...

Child support: Motion to order genetic testing: Non-appealable order CSA No. 0280, Sept. Term 2013. Unreported. Opinion by Salmon, J.P., J. Filed March 11, 2014. Appeal from Carroll County. Appeal dismissed.

Divorce: monetary award: alimony CSA No. 0234, Sept. Term 2012. Unreported. Opinion by Meredith, J. Filed July 18, 2013. Appeal from Baltimore County. Remanded in part, without affirmance or reversal. 18 pages.