Family law practitioners were rocked in June 2020 when The Court of Special Appeals of Maryland, now known and hereafter referred to as The Supreme Court of Maryland, published its decision in A.A. v. Ab.D., 246 Md. App. 418, (2020). ...

An update to Maryland’s child support statute has been a boon to family law practitioners with clients who accuse their former partners of voluntary impoverishment, attorneys say. Especially significant, they note, is the statute’s definition of voluntary impoverishment. Before the ...

Martha R. Bagley swears she does not get up on her “high horse” often. But the subpoena the Topsfield, Massachusetts, attorney received on May 2 from a fellow member of the family law bar struck her as beyond the pale. ...

MARIETTA, Ga. — A judge on Monday ordered court records to be made public in the divorce involving a special prosecutor hired in the election case against Donald Trump and others and accused of having an affair with Fulton County ...

A longtime Minnesota attorney who has faced discipline several times before is facing further discipline. The Minnesota Supreme Court announced Jan. 10 that Joseph Kaminsky was indefinitely suspended from the practice of law, with no right to petition for reinstatement ...

In a matter of first impression, the Fairfax County Circuit Court in Virginia ruled that it had no jurisdiction to modify a custody agreement based solely on the children’s preference to equalize the custodial time shared by their parents. Judge ...

The Massachusetts Appeals Court has ruled in a case of first impression that a disinherited son’s status as an “interested person” under the Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code did not give him standing to challenge his stepmother’s appointment as personal representative ...

In this warrant in debt action, the Virginia Court of Appeals rejected an appellant’s argument that the circuit court lacked jurisdiction to decide that matter because the same action was pending in the general district court. The appeals court concluded ...

When a child is removed from the home, due to concerns of negligence or abuse, the issue is the child’s safety if returned home. Once a juvenile court finds the child to be a CINA and commits the child to ...

A trial court did not err when it awarded the husband of a divorced couple the parties’ cryogenically preserved embryo created with an egg from the wife’s sister fertilized by sperm from the husband, a divided panel of the Michigan ...