Tag Archives: General Assembly

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 ...

A bill that would provide free, high-quality legal representation to low-income victims of certain crimes is under consideration in the Maryland General Assembly. SB 811/HB 665 would establish the Family Law Services for Sustained Safety Fund, which would increase legal ...

The Maryland General Assembly ended its 2018 session this month having passed long-stalled legislation enabling parents of minor children to divorce by mutual consent and to strip parental rights from a father or mother who conceived the child through non-consensual intercourse.

Both chambers of the Maryland General Assembly have passed legislation eliminating exceptions to state law allowing 15-year-olds to marry, but differences over whether the new minimum age should be 16 or 17 mean the cross-filed bills are likely headed for a conference committee.

Advocacy groups expressed support last week for the concept of a bill providing a path to emancipation for 16- and 17-year-olds but called for a more in-depth discussion before moving forward.

A bill that would decriminalize adultery in Maryland was the subject of discussion following its hearing before a Senate committee last week.

Legislation to allow courts to strip rights from a parent who conceived a child through non-consensual intercourse failed in the General Assembly again this year, as did a push to ban marriage for anyone younger than 18. Cross-filed bills which ...

ANNAPOLIS – Del. Kathleen M. Dumais, D-Montgomery, has stood before the Maryland House Judiciary Committee seven times in the last nine years to present her bill terminating rapists’ parental rights of children conceived of rape. The latest iteration of the ...

Repeated calls, emails, packages and even showing up at someone’s home or work may be insufficient to get a stalking conviction in Maryland. For domestic violence advocates, the fact that these behaviors are not seen as criminal in the eyes ...

ANNAPOLIS – The chair of the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee wants married couples with minor children to have the same path to divorce that childless couples do. Under a law that took effect Oct. 1, married couples without minor children ...