News & Insights

On December 17, 2020, Governor Larry Hogan signed an Executive Order requiring all Marylanders to limit travel to essential purposes and requiring all Marylanders who travel outside of Maryland, or any individual who travels to Maryland, to follow the travel orders issued by the Secretary of Health.... Read more >

Keri contributed to an article, "New Law Adjusts Maryland's So-Called Child Support 'Cliff'," published by The Daily Record's Maryland Family Law Update, November 24, 2020. ... Read more >

U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers, for the eleventh consecutive year, name Tydings to the 2021 “Best Law Firms” list. Tydings was named to the Best Law Firms list for the Baltimore metropolitan region in 11 practice areas: arbitration, bankruptcy litigation, bankruptcy/creditor-de... Read more >

One of the factors considered when determining how much child support one parent should pay the other is the number of overnights the child spends with each parent.  Before October 1, 2020, if a child spent less 35% of the overnights (or 128 overnights per year) with one parent, then the other ... Read more >

Ferrier served as a panelist at the "Generation Z Women: The Future of Politics," a part of The Daily Record's Women Who Lead event series. ... Read more >

Downtown Partnership of Baltimore elects Ferrier Stillman to its executive committee.  Ferrier also serves on its board of directors. She represents individuals in her family law practice and health care companies in her health care and senior housing practice. Downtown Partners... Read more >

Maryland Bankruptcy Bar Association elects Joseph M. Selba secretary of its board of directors. Joe’s bankruptcy/restructuring practice focuses on representing debtors, creditors, and trustees in insolvency proceedings, workouts, liquidations, financial restructurings, and bankruptcy litigation... Read more >

Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service appoints Richard L. Costella to its board of directors. Rich’s practice focuses primarily on bankruptcy and creditors’ rights, banking and finance, and commercial litigation matters. MVLS is a private, non-profit legal services provider established in 198... Read more >

It has been a year of many difficult adjustments for all Maryland employers.  A few more changes lie ahead, as new employment (and related) laws take effect October 1, 2020. The new laws include human relations protections, hate crime symbols, prohibitions on wage history inquiries, business... Read more >

Maryland now recognizes a new cause of action, the tort of intentional interference with an inheritance or gift.  Previously, Maryland recognized the tort of wrongful or malicious interference with economic relations, which involved contractual or business relationships between the plaintiff an... Read more >