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How can I get my pre-marital share of our house?

Divorce Questions and Answers

My boyfriend and I purchased a home together and then we got married. A few years later things went south and he signed a quit claim deed and removed his name from the title. We never got divorced. Does he have rights to the home since he removed his name from the...

Child Support Questions

Custody

How much child support do I have to pay if the custodial parent continues to be unemployed ? Custody has recently changed and now I am the non-custodial parent. Custodial parent is voluntarily impoverished and has been unemployed now for 6 years. Can they file for and...

Divorce Agreements: Can I file them in Court?

Divorce Questions and Answers

Question: In a pending divorce case, I want to file a signed agreement with the court so the case can be uncontested.  How can I submit the agreement correctly? Answer: If you and your spouse have reached a mutual agreement, or what the court refers to as a Marital...

Child Support Modification

Custody, Divorce Questions and Answers

Question:  What does it usually mean when you receive an order that my motion to dismiss child support modification is denied? Does this mean that the judge looked at the evidence I presented in my pleadings and decided against me? So now, we go back to court? Answer...

Child Custody during COVID: does my child have to visit the other parent?

Custody

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...

ADULT GUARDIANSHIPS

Custody

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

Custody

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...

How can hiring Mulinazzi as your divorce or custody attorney save you money?

Divorce Law

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...

PRIVATE SCHOOL AFTER DIVORCE

Custody

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...

WHAT DOES “TIE BREAKER” MEAN WHEN IT COMES TO JOINT LEGAL CUSTODY?

Custody

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...