Parents everywhere are terrifically concerned about how to best protect their children while at the same time abiding my Court Orders that require them to send the child over to the other parent’s house. What can they do? What must they do? Our attorneys...
What is a guardianship and do I need to get one for my loved one? There are two types of adult guardianships in Maryland: guardians of the person and guardians of the property. A guardian of the person covers authority of medical, contractual, and...
Adoption is the legal process by which an adult takes a child into his/her own family, treating that child as his/her own child, and giving that child all the rights and duties of his own child. Of course, before this process happens a loving familial bond is already...
Hiring a lawyer is expensive. Divorce and custody cases can turn into battles that cost a lot of money. But it does not have cost you as much as it does and that is because, in part, other law offices charge you for actions that they do not have to...
In Maryland, child support is calculated in most cases using a formula called the Maryland Child Support Guidelines. “The Guidelines” considers the number of children in the family, each parent’s income, any alimony paid or received, the current custody and...
by Thomas Mulinazzi An old friend called yesterday and asked me, “What does it mean if I have the tie breaker authority?” He said he did a Google search for the “best divorce attorney in Howard County” and my name popped up. He figured why not give me a call since we...
Can grandparents petition for custody of a child temporarily living with them? Question: My wife has a 5-year-old son from a previous relationship. The child had been living with my wife’s parents prior to us getting married. The closest thing he...
People talk about divorce. They talk about their own divorces and they talk about what they think they know about other people’s divorces. You hear information, advice or supposed facts from friends, family members, your hairstylist, or someone at the gym. There’s a...
If you and your spouse own a home (this applies to multiple homes as well), as part of the divorce you will need to “divide the property.” What does that mean exactly? Well, technically the property could be divided or partitioned but that is an unreasonable and...
by Thomas Mulinazzi After a case is filed certain behaviors are expected of the litigants in a divorce case. Unfortunately, for the litigant very few, if any, of these expectations are written down anywhere and the Court will not provide this information. Most...
