Baltimore attorney Anne Margaret Miller was disbarred Wednesday by the Maryland Court of Appeals, which found that she misled a client into believing that she had filed the client’s adoption petition and that she intentionally delayed resolution of the case ...

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Legislation to require state and local prisons to have written policies regarding pregnant inmates' medical care has passed the Senate and House of Delegates and appears headed to Gov. Larry Hogan’s desk pending additional, procedural votes.

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Adoptions, prosecutions, attack ads and more in this week's Law Blog Roundup

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An Ohio couple who authorities say returned their 9-year-old adopted son to the county after raising him since infancy have been charged with abandoning the child.

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COLLEGE PARK — It took Doug and Chris Maulden-Locke eight months to get through pre-adoption background checks and an extensive home study and just 10 days to find a baby to adopt. But the same-sex couple wasn’t sure what would ...

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A man who was one day late in objecting to the proposed adoption of his son by the boy’s stepfather was validly stripped of his parental rights, Maryland’s highest court unanimously held Friday.

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WASHINGTON — An attorney is suing one of Washington’s most prominent law firms, claiming she was fired for taking time off to adopt a child. Pamela Levinson of Bethesda has filed a $5 million gender discrimination lawsuit against Wilmer Cutler ...

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Earlier this month my wife and I appeared for what is probably the happiest of all court proceedings: the adoption hearing.

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At the University of Baltimore’s Family Law Clinic, student attorneys do more than help low-income clients seeking child custody, support, divorce, adoption, and civil remedies for domestic violence. They also look at the big picture. And they get results: Clinic ...

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LOS ANGELES — When Gabriela Dorame of Fullerton, Calif., got a German shepherd puppy named Bolto last year, she and her kids decided to have a microchip implanted in the dog with an identification number that makes it easy to ...

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