Child Custody

In an unusual child custody hearing, a court decided neither parent was fit at the time to care for their 8-year-old daughter. The state took the girl into protective custody after the husband orchestrated a bizarre plan involving a fake Facebook account that was...

The father of a young child who has been missing for more than a week recently told reporters that he believes his son's disappearance is linked to a recent custody decision, of which his wife disapproved. The man and his wife have been engaged in a long divorce and...

A city council president has been arrested after police officers responded to domestic disturbance reports at his home, where the man allegedly became violent toward them. The man had reportedly acted violently after learning that a one-month-old family member would...

Recent reports suggest that the role of obesity and nutrition are more often becoming factors in custody battles, with parents citing their child's weight as evidence that the child is being inadequately cared for while in the other parent's custody. Conversely, some...

It seems that every week we read about another celebrity couple who couldn't make their marriage work. Many may shrug off their breakups as something that was bound to happen, but celebrities who divorce face a similar separation process as many in Maryland. In the...

Two Maryland fathers have filed a lawsuit against the District of Columbia after the District placed their children in foster care. Because both families reside in Maryland, their lawsuit claims that the D.C. Child and Family Services Agency violated their parental...

The state of Maryland has not enacted any laws legalizing the possession, use and sale of medical marijuana, meaning that a parent found to be using the substance could lose custody of his or her children. Medicinal marijuana usage has, however, been approved in...

A recent report from the Maryland Office of Legislative Audits has revealed that the state has failed to collect millions of dollars worth of owed child support payments over the last three years, amounting to more than $1.7 billion. The report blamed the Child...

A woman is appealing a recent child custody ruling that allows her ex-husband's wife, a convicted child killer, to help care for the woman's 13- and 14-year-old sons. After a private investigator revealed that her ex-husband was living the woman, the boys' mother took...

According to recent reports, Maryland is now home to about 47,200 single-father households, a 14-percent jump from the year 2000. Single-mother households have only increased by around 5,000, or 3.2 percent, in the same time span. Data from the U.S. Census Bureau...