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Divorced parents need to be advised on the effects on their children of an adversarial approach towards the separation. Support groups for children as well as those for parents help much in preventing negative consequences such as a deterioration of the child's school performance and relationship with society. The Children of Separation and Divorce Center in Maryland is a nonprofit agency that has been helping both children and parents cope with the stress that follows the divorce.
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... whether the pendency of an appeal from a Maryland divorce decree operated to suspend or stay the dec... divorce constitutes a sufficient legal separation to prevent the filing of a joint return. Cf. Marce...
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Not even a successful petition drive can tear asunder the Maryland high court's decision requiring the state to recognize as valid the marriages of same-sex couples who lawfully wed in other states. The Court of Appeals, in its landmark ruling Friday, said recognition is required by the legal doctrine of comity -- under which one state accepts the legal judgments of another -- because same-sex marriage is neither "repugnant" to the state's public policy nor expressly prohibited by state law. The court's ruling came as a Maryland state law permitting same-sex marriages is slated to go into effect Jan. 1. But that law, the Civil Marriage Protection Act, will likely be put before Maryland voters this fall, as opponents of the measure have mounted a petition drive to get the 55,736 signatu...
...Port, who lived in Maryland, filed for divorce on July 12, 2010, in Prince George's County. Cowan... for one year, satisfying the voluntary separation requirement for a Maryland divorce. Chapdelaine re...
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... share 50% of the cost of grade separation, irrespective of the value of such improvements to...The claimant was a Maryland resident who was owed a debt by Balk, a North Caro... was a law affording married parents, divorced parents, and unmarried mothers an opportunity to b...
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Divorce lawyers might be the last people you would expect to support legislation to halve the time married couples must live separately before divorcing in Maryland.
But at a state Senate committee hearing last week, attorneys who represent soon-to-be-exes said they are willing to forgo the billable hours to eliminate what they called a nonsensical requirement that couples remain married against their will for a full year before filing for divorce.
... cut Maryland's one- year voluntary separation requirement to six months. The state's separation ...
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When Jessica Port got married, she did not worry about what would happen if she were ever to divorce. She was young and in love.
Port and Virginia Anne Cowan had been together for four years before deciding to marry, which they did on a trip to San Francisco in 2008. But, like half of all marriages in the United States, their relationship soured and they sought a divorce.
...Your property -- if you don't do a separation agreement and sometimes even if you do -- is at ri...
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... . Appellant's petition for divorce was dismissed by an Iowa trial court for lack of j... for dissolution of marriage or legal separation, and who are barred from doing so by the one-year ...Zwickler, 394 U.S. 103, 108-109 (1969); Maryland Casualty Co. v. Pacific Coal & Oil Co., 312 U.S. 2...
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The General Assembly ended its 2011 session last week having passed legislation pertaining to parting, punishment and protest.
One new measure will require a spouse who seeks a divorce over the other's objection to live separate and apart from that person for only one year -- rather than the current two-year condition -- before filing for divorce.
... family-law category of "involuntary separation" -- invoked when one spouse objects -- and require...
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Administrative Law
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...FACTS: As a result of earlier divorce proceedings, John Menefee and Sheila Menefee share..., the critical time is that between the separation or the time when 'the marriage is undergoing an ir...
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... for the District of Maryland, at Greenbelt. Peter J. Messitte, Senior ... the child when there has been a legal separation of the parents" conferred citizenship on that ch... a legal separation can occur only after a divorce, and, contrary to precedent, applies rational basi...