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Divorced dads in Maryland receive about 26 percent of custody time of their children according to a new study.
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Read More »New study finds variation in custody time for dads nationwide
What is parental alienation and why it hurts everyone
Parental alienation is perhaps the worst experience any family can go through while also going through a divorce or separation.
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Read More »General Assembly passes bill extending mutual-consent divorce to parents
A bill to permit parents of minor children to divorce via agreement resolving all property, financial, custodial and visitation issues will head to Gov. Larry Hogan’s desk.
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Read More »Senators discuss benefits to maintaining crime of adultery
A bill that would decriminalize adultery in Maryland was the subject of discussion following its hearing before a Senate committee Thursday, where members considered the possible benefits of maintaining the law.
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Read More »Indian top court says no to ‘instant divorce’
Imagine getting divorced because your spouse said the word “divorce” (or texted it) three times. That had been legal in India, one of a few remaining countries that allowed triple talaq, a practice some consider part of Islamic law that ...
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Read More »Md. high court: Spouses can decouple property without calling it ‘non-marital’
A married couple can agree that property they buy as husband and wife belongs solely to him or her without expressly stating in the agreement that the property is “non-marital,” Maryland’s top court has ruled. The Court of Appeals decision ...
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Read More »Differing versions of divorce-evidence bill emerge from General Assembly committees
Legislation to allow domestic violence orders to be introduced as evidence in divorce proceedings has passed both houses of the Maryland General Assembly — but not without being limited by amendments by a Senate committee. The cross-filed bills repeal a ...
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Read More »When divorce is for the dogs (and cats)
A proposed bill in the Maryland House of Delegates seeks to address one of the difficult questions that comes up in a separation: Who gets the pet?
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Read More »Fancy pants and financial discipline
I sat across from a new client recently and declared, “You’re a fancy pants … I know this because it takes one to know one.” To her credit, this client took my comment in stride, and we had a good ...
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Read More »Judges must predict Social Security benefits in marital property, top Md. court says
Family-law judges must consider the splitting spouses’ anticipated Social Security benefits when calculating monetary awards in divorce cases, a divided Maryland high court ruled Tuesday.
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