You and your spouse may have agreed that it is time to go your separate ways but how exactly do you even begin to detangle your lives?
Joseph Greenwald & Laake, PA Blog - Family Law
Posted on Fri, 2021-01-15 09:26 by Lindsay Parvis in
Third party custody is one of the fastest developing areas of Maryland law, seeing many major changes since 2016. This series of articles explores these developments and raises questions about where this area of the law is heading.
This series discusses:
Posted on Fri, 2021-01-15 09:03 by Lindsay Parvis in
Third party custody is one of the fastest developing areas of Maryland law, seeing many major changes since 2016. This series of articles explores these developments and raises questions about where this area of the law is heading.
This series discusses:
Posted on Fri, 2021-01-15 09:01 by Lindsay Parvis in
Third party custody is one of the fastest developing areas of Maryland law, seeing many major changes since 2016. This series of articles explores these developments and raises questions about where this area of the law is heading.
This series discusses:
Posted on Fri, 2020-11-20 15:00 by Lindsay Parvis in Family Law, child support, Maryland
2021 will see 5 major changes to the child support guidelines, one of which will allow the Court to decline to award any child support if certain circumstances exist. Child support law current through September 30, 2021 does not entitle a Court to decline to order child support. These changes will be found in Family Law Article §12-202(b) and apply to cases filed on and after October 1, 2021*.
Circumstances under the new law allowing a no support order are:
Posted on Fri, 2020-11-20 14:52 by Lindsay Parvis in Family Law, child support, Maryland
2021 will see 5 major changes to the child support guidelines, one of which introduces new Maryland law on the self-support reserve for low income parents for cases filed on and after October 1, 2021*.
The self-support reserve recognizes that parents at the lowest income levels require a basic amount of money to live on before being able to pay child support. The self-support reserve standardizes this calculation, while still allowing deviation in appropriate cases.
Posted on Fri, 2020-11-20 14:48 by Lindsay Parvis in Family Law, child support, Maryland
2021 will see 5 major changes to the child support guidelines, one of which concerns statutory updates to existing law on voluntary impoverishment and potential income.
Voluntary impoverishment basically means a parent choosing to be unemployed or underemployed (so, reduced his or her income) in order to avoid paying child support. Starting October 1, 2021 for cases filed on and after that date*, Maryland will see changes to its child support definitions statute (Family Law Article §12-201) to:
Posted on Fri, 2020-11-20 14:43 by Lindsay Parvis in Family Law, child support, Maryland
October 1, 2020 saw updates to the law (Family Law Article §12-104.1) allowing suspension of child support when the payor (the person required to pay child support; also called “obligor”) is sentenced to incarceration for 180 consecutive calendar days or more. This is a change from 18 consecutive months to 180 consecutive days. This applies to cases filed on and after October 1, 2020.
Posted on Fri, 2020-11-20 14:40 by Lindsay Parvis in Family Law, child support, Maryland
The 2020 Session of the Maryland General Assembly saw several major developments to Maryland’s law on child support, some of which went into effect October 1, 2020 and the others going into effect October 1, 2021.
This series of articles discusses those changes and provides tips for parents and attorneys in child support negotiation, mediation, and litigation.
The series covers these changes in the law:
Posted on Wed, 2020-10-21 10:15 by Lindsay Parvis in Family Law, Covid19
Trial by Zoom is a technological advance that I would not have anticipated in my career, but here we find ourselves. In addition to the physical distancing benefits, court appearances by zoom can save time, money (especially from time off work or for childcare), and the cost of attorney travel to & from court.