The Appellate Court of Maryland referred Bel Air lawyer Adam Hyman to the Attorney Grievance Commission after he was found to have cited fake cases in a brief generated with artificial intelligence. Hyman, representing a woman in a divorce case, ...

BOSTON, MA — The wife in a divorce was entitled to a 50-percent share of her husband’s closely held securities obtained in connection with his employment, notwithstanding the husband’s argument that the division of those assets should have been apportioned ...

Before seeking to remove a child from their home, the Department of Social Services is required to make reasonable efforts to prevent the removal of children from their family, except in certain statutorily defined emergency circumstances. Reasonable efforts must be ...

DETROIT, MI — The Court of Appeals has reversed a judge’s decision to modify the provisions of a consent judgment of separate maintenance. The consent judgment, agreed to by the parties in 2014, divided their real and personal property and ...

Family law attorneys are enthusiastic about Maryland’s new custody statute, saying the factors the court must now consider are more specific and “child-centric” than the case law factors previously relied upon. The statute (Md. Code, Family Law Section 9-201), which ...

NEW YORK — The mother of a newborn girl who was abandoned at a busy midtown Manhattan subway station with her umbilical cord still attached was arrested early Wednesday, city police said. The 30-year-old Queens woman was taken into custody ...

A Missouri appeals court vacated a judgment in a custody case out of Greene County Circuit Court. The Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, vacated the judgment Sept. 26 after the father of two juveniles appealed the lower court’s judgment ...

LOS ANGELES — Kevin Federline says concern for his two sons with Britney Spears long kept him from telling his story, and those same concerns are the reason he’s telling it now that they’re men. In a memoir to be released ...

LAKE CITY, Florida — A Florida judge has granted a protective order against Republican U.S. Rep. Cory Mills at the request of a former girlfriend who claimed that he threatened to release nude images of her and physically harm her ...

Divorce is rarely simple. Missouri courts are accustomed to navigating the complexities of dividing property and, in cases involving children, applying the “best interest of the child” standard to determine custody arrangements. Yet in cases involving pets, courts face a ...