Proponents of a bill that would allow women to strip rights from a parent who conceived a child through non-consensual intercourse think they will have a version that passes in the Maryland General Assembly in 2018, especially with the heads of ...

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Parents of children deemed in need of assistance cannot immediately appeal a court order waiving a governmental agency’s obligation to provide reasonable reunification efforts between the parent and child, Maryland’s top court has unanimously ruled. In its 7-0 decision, the ...

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A bill to enable courts to strip parental rights from a parent who conceived the child via non-consenual sex is getting more attention now than it did during session.

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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 ...

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The General Assembly failed to pass a bill to enable courts to strip parental rights from a parent who conceived the child through non-consensual intercourse.

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ANNAPOLIS — Legislation advancing in the Maryland General Assembly would enable a court to revoke the parental rights of an individual found to have committed rape against the other parent if a court finds that it is in the child’s ...

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A sentencing judge did not violate a convicted child sexual abuser’s fundamental right to parent by requiring -- as a condition of probation -- that his visits with his pre-school son be supervised, even though the abuse was not of his boy but of a 10-year-old girl not related to him, Maryland’s top court has unanimously ruled.

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A Maryland appeals court has overturned an award of visitation to the grandparents of three children, saying the circuit court’s decision violated the mother’s “fundamental right … to direct and control the upbringing” of her children.

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Maryland’s top court has agreed to decide if the former same-sex partner of a child’s mother has the parental rights of custody and visitation because the decision to conceive the child was mutual and the couple married – but later divorced – after the child’s birth.

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A Maryland appeals court has ordered that a son’s surname revert to that of his mother, saying a lower court had improperly given the father a second chance to have the boy’s name changed to his.

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