If you’re going through divorce (or helping others navigate their divorce), you already know that the emotions are complicated. There is the sense of loss or grief for the relationship, fear of the unknown, grief for the loss of a ...

The European Court of Human Rights sided Thursday with a French woman who had stopped having sex with her husband, saying she should not have been considered at fault on those grounds in their divorce. The ruling concerned a fault-based ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order aimed at cutting federal support for gender transitions for people under age 19, his latest move to roll back protections for transgender people across the country. “It is the ...

Vermont’s child welfare agency relied on baseless allegations about a pregnant woman’s mental health to secretly investigate her and win custody of her daughter before the baby was born, according to a lawsuit that alleges the state routinely targets and ...

ANNAPOLIS — Maryland’s registers of wills and their allies in the legislature are worried that a part of Gov. Wes Moore’s tax reform proposal will strip them of their main revenue source. The governor’s staff, meanwhile, said the intent is ...

Alabama children with physical disabilities are being unnecessarily institutionalized in nursing homes, the U.S. Justice Department said last week, warning it would file suit against the state unless changes are made to allow more of these children to live at ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A teenager whose discovery in a locked shed led to the arrest of her adoptive parents testified Friday that she and her siblings lived tumultuous lives in substandard conditions, including being forced to sleep on the floor ...

It is well-documented that school attendance, especially in kindergarten and first grade, is a predictor of reading proficiency after the third grade. Nationally, the COVID-19 “pandemic led to the largest decline in fourth grade reading and eighth grade math proficiency ...

Where a child in need of assistance or termination of parental rights court changes the terms of a prior custody order, an aggrieved party has a right to immediate interlocutory appeal, the Maryland Appellate Court has ruled. CASE: In re ...

Breakups hurt. For confirmation of this fact, just check the lyrics of that song you listened to on repeat the last time somebody looked into your eyes and sadly said, “It’s not you, it’s me.” But while the feelings that ...