For the second year in a row, child custody will be a major focus of family law-minded legislators this coming General Assembly session. Proposed legislation would codify the standards that a judge considers in custody matters, factors that are currently ...

Everyone experiences some type of stressors this time of year, but these stressors are compounded for split families tasked with navigating the holidays as an incohesive unit. Before running to file an emergency motion to decide where a child spends ...

ROME  — Pope Francis formally approved letting Catholic priests bless same-sex couples, the Vatican announced Monday, a radical shift in policy that aimed at making the church more inclusive while maintaining its strict ban on gay marriage. But while the ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — After 11 years of litigation that included multiple trips to Newport Probate Court, an appeal to the state Supreme Court, and litigation in Utah, a jury earlier this year sided with Melissa M. Horne’s client in a ...

DETROIT — Defendants who made statements to a guardian ad litem in an investigation for a child custody matter weren’t entitled to immunity or quasi-judicial immunity, a divided panel of the Michigan Court of Appeals has held, reversing a decision ...

On Nov. 18, the United States celebrated National Adoption Day, which is held annually on the Saturday before Thanksgiving. Many local courts across Maryland and around the country celebrate National Adoption Day by having adoption hearings and special events. This ...

BOSTON — A husband’s challenge to a hike in his weekly alimony payment by $1,000 has teed up for the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court the question of whether a judge can consider an asserted need to save for future expenses ...

A woman who opened a joint bank account with her daughter in order to deposit life insurance proceeds following the death of her ex-husband was entitled to exclusive ownership of the funds, a Rhode Island Superior Court judge has determined. ...

More than one-third of all Americans getting divorced are over the age of 50. And the numbers go even high post-age 65. Long-term marriage vows were once seen as unbreakable, yet people over 50 are increasingly parting ways. The so-called ...

BOSTON — After his ex-wife attacked him with a hatchet, a man was excused from making further payments under a separation agreement, the Massachusetts Appeals Court has decided, affirming the result of a bench trial in Superior Court. On Aug. ...