WASHINGTON — When President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden disagree, they don’t hash it out in front of other people. Instead, she says, they argue by text — “fexting” as they call it. Jill Biden also told Harper’s ...

A federal judge in Maryland has banned immigration officials from arresting, detaining and deporting immigrants who are seeking legal status based on their marriages to U.S. citizens. U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel issued the ruling Feb. 7 in a ...

Americans under the age of 45 have found a novel way to rebel against their elders: They're staying married.

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.

The federal tax law enacted in December may have spurred a race to the courthouse for divorcing husbands and wives who expect to pay alimony as a result of their coming split. The law will repeal the decades-old deductibility of ...

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 ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.  — A Jefferson City attorney was among three people sentenced in two separate marriage fraud conspiracies. Sixty-three-year-old James Douglas Barding was sentenced Monday to one month in prison and a year of supervised release. He was also ...

MARTINEZ, Calif. — A man in Northern California was charged with arson after he allegedly set fire to homes and cars belonging to his groomsmen in revenge for not supporting him after his marriage fell apart, authorities said Tuesday. Joshua ...

The way the legal system deals with cases of domestic violence has changed significantly in the last half-century, but many of those changes do not effectively serve the needs of women who have experienced abuse, said Leigh Goodmark, a University ...

TOKYO — Japan’s Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that requiring married couples to have the same surname is constitutional, dealing a blow to a longtime effort for gender equality in choosing names. The law does not say which partner must give ...