How and whether siblings placed separately in foster care will be given opportunities to visit one another regularly and maintain familial connections are questions sometimes overlooked by the local Department of Social Services (“Department”) in its exercise of its primary ...

Maryland same-sex couples who wanted to take advantage of a state law that requires insurers to cover pricey in vitro fertilization treatments used to face insurmountable obstacles. The law generally mandated that couples demonstrate a history of infertility of at ...

This case involves a dispute over the enforcement and modification of a child-custody order, which originally had been entered by consent.

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.

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.

Adoption/Guardianship: Permanent Guardianship: Military parent CSA No. 1860, Sept. Term 2013. Unreported. Opinion by Nazarian, J. Filed Oct. 22, 2014. Appeal from Howard County. Affirmed. RecordFax #14-1022-00, 14 pages. The circuit court properly granted mother’s petition to revoke an order ...

Divorce: Alimony and child support: Religious tie-breaking authority

Custody and visitation: Modification: Motions to reconsider

Money that the husband’s employer structured as a “loan” was really a bonus or a retention incentive plan, and therefore a marital asset, the Court of Special Appeals has affirmed.

Custody: Shared legal custody: Taylor exception CSA No. 1919, Sept. Term 2013. Unreported. Opinion by Nazarian, J. Filed Oct. 23, 2014. Appeal from Howard County. Affirmed. RecordFax #14-1023-10, 34 pages. Despite the parties’ volatile relationship, this was the rare case, ...