Child Custody

According to a recent report from the National Council on Disability, U.S. courts are not properly protecting the parental rights of disabled parents. The report claims that widespread laws that allow most states to consider a parent's disability when determining his...

Baltimore Ravens linebacker and 2011 NFL Defensive Player of the Year Terrell Suggs recently settled a custody issue with fiancée Candace Williams, marrying her several days later. The couple appeared in court with their attorneys to establish a global...

Parents who go through divorce face a number of unique challenges, often being forced to adapt to new parenting arrangements that do not allow them to spend as much time with their children as they would like. Being alone can be particularly difficult during the...

A family court has awarded custody to a child's adoptive mother in favor of her biological mother. The child custody case is believed to be among the first involving same-sex couples on the east coast and could potentially have repercussions on similar disputes in...

A Maryland man has been reunited with his 12-year-old daughter eight years after his estranged wife abducted the girl and fled the United States. The woman took the child to the Philippines in the midst of a bitter child custody battle in 2004, telling the man he...

According to data published by the National Center for State Courts, about one in four children with divorced or separated parents live in a different city than their noncustodial parents. In fact, approximately 75 percent of divorced mothers relocate at least once...

According to anti-tobacco advocacy group Action on Smoking and Health, parents in Maryland and across the United States could lose custody of their children if they smoke cigarettes. Experts say that getting full or even joint child custody could become significantly...

There are many issues that need to be resolved when a couple decides to get divorced. There are considerations surrounding child support, spousal support and even who gets to keep the house. But for some couples, the biggest source of contention is child custody....

As courts in Maryland and other states increasingly begin to favor joint child custody arrangements, it has become easier for parents to win partial custody. While judges nearly always ruled in favor of mothers in the past, most now make their decisions based on which...

Legal advocates and activists are calling on state and federal governments to adopt laws that would provide individuals in civil cases with rights similar to those granted in criminal cases. The U.S. Constitution guarantees legal representation to criminal defendants...