After more than a decade of debate, Maryland legislators have codified the factors a court considers in making custody determinations, a bill lawmakers and advocates say eases the burden for self-represented litigants. The Maryland General Assembly passed SB 548/HB 1191 ...

Where husband argued his spousal support should be terminated because wife had cohabited in a relationship analogous to marriage for one year or more, the circuit court did not err when it rejected this argument, the Virginia Court of Appeals ...

LOS ANGELES  — Los Angeles County has reached a $4 billion agreement to settle nearly 7,000 claims of sexual abuse in juvenile facilities since 1959, officials said. The agreement, which still needs approval from the Los Angeles County Board of ...

A new Kansas law and a Florida bill outline policies backed by abortion opponents that critics see as moves toward giving embryos and fetuses the same rights as the women carrying them. The Kansas Legislature’s Republican supermajorities last week overrode ...

A wife who helped pay off the mortgage, but was never a titleholder, is not entitled to the proceeds of the judicial sale of the home. That’s according to the U.S Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit, which has ...

RICHMOND, VA — Where the husband sued his former wife for malicious prosecution, after an ex parte protective order she obtained was dissolved, the circuit court erred when it dismissed the lawsuit, the Virginia Court of Appeals ruled. None of ...

Same-sex marriage, which the U.S. Supreme Court in 2015 legalized nationwide in the case known as Obergefell v. Hodges, is facing resurgent hostility. In the decade since the court’s decision, public support for same-sex marriage has increased. Currently, about 70% ...

An interlocutory order denying pendente lite alimony and child support is not appealable as an order for the payment of money, the Maryland Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. In a per curiam order, the high court concluded the Maryland Appellate Court ...

A recent article in The Baltimore Banner reported that, based on data provided by the state for a federal report, 83 children died from maltreatment in Maryland in 2023. According to the article, the number of such deaths has been ...

Men in Greece will be barred from having children via surrogacy if they are single or in a same-sex relationship, the justice minister said Tuesday, asserting that it’s intended to eliminate legal ambiguity over the concept of inability to carry ...