ANNAPOLIS – Mothers or fathers whose parental rights were terminated for having conceived the child through nonconsensual intercourse could still be ordered to pay child support under legislation being considered by the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee. Senate Bill 98 would ...

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ANNAPOLIS – Legislation will soon be introduced to remove a controversial provision in Maryland family law that sharply reduces noncustodial parents’ child-support obligations once they have hosted their children overnight 128 times in a year. Opponents of the current provision ...

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The most important name on a child-support order is not the payee’s but the child’s, Maryland’s second highest court said in ruling child-support money held in escrow for a youngster should be released to the grandmother who became the caregiver ...

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An able-bodied immigrant’s lack of work-authorization documents does not excuse him or her from the obligation to pay child support, Maryland’s second-highest court has ruled. In its 3-0 decision, the Court of Special Appeals upheld a judge’s decision to impute ...

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Welcome to Monday, the 43rd anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Nixon, in which the justices held that President Richard Nixon had to surrender to the special prosecutor recordings of White House conversations related to the Watergate ...

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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.

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A New York man cannot say Maryland courts lack jurisdiction over him in a child-support proceeding after he sought a Prince George’s County Circuit Court order for a paternity test and for information regarding the support request by the Maryland mother who claims he is her child’s father, a Maryland appeals court has held.

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Despite warnings by auditors going back to at least 2011, Maryland’s Child Support Enforcement Agency did not ask the state’s top court to provide identifying information on attorneys until last week, state audits show.

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Threatened with the possible loss of $1 million in funds, the state judiciary has turned over information on Maryland attorneys to the state agency that collects unpaid child support.

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Within the past few months, the Department of Human Resources has made significant progress in resolving the issues raised by the Office of Legislative Audits concerning its Child Support Enforcement Administration. The department has corrected seven of the 11 mistakes ...

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