Bowie Maryland Legal Blog

The summer can often become very expensive for parents. Without school to keep your kids busy, you’re now charged with finding another program to care for them while you’re at work.

If you will be electing a new babysitter, nanny or at-home daycare to use for your children, check out these checklist items to make sure the home is a safe place to leave them.

Sometimes it can take months, or even years, for justice to take place. In July 2018, a one-vehicle rollover accident in Maryland caused the death of two children, ages 12 and 13. It was only last week, more than six months after the accident, that authorities have arrested the adults allegedly responsible for the vehicle, a 35-year-old woman and a 40-year-old man, on charges that include criminally negligent manslaughter by vehicle, neglect of a minor and having an occupant under 16 not restrained by a seat belt.

Rainy conditions on a Tuesday afternoon last summer in the eastbound lanes of I-68 near the border between Maryland and West Virginia allegedly caused the driver of the vehicle to lose control and hit an embankment. The force of the collision reportedly caused the vehicle to roll over several times.

When Maryland couples get divorced, they usually want to find a custody arrangement which will be best for their kids. Some families may want to consider an arrangement known as birdnesting.

Most of the time, children travel between their parent's homes after a divorce. NBC says that when parents decide to birdnest, the parents are the ones who travel between houses. In this situation, the children continue to live in their family home and each parent alternates his or her time between the family home and an apartment. This kind of arrangement may be beneficial for many reasons. One benefit is that the children do not need to leave their home, neighborhood and school. Sometimes parents may want to use this arrangement when they first decide to get a divorce so the kids can stay in their familiar environment while they get used to the new situation.

With spring just around the corner, many residents in Maryland may be eager to get back to some activities they do not engage in during the winter months. For many people, riding a motorcycle may well be one of those activities. Bikers have good reason to enjoy the thrill of riding on two wheels but they must also navigate serious risks when they share the road with cars, trucks and other larger vehicles.

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the number of motorcyclists killed in Maryland increased every year between 2013 and 2017 from 62 in 2013 to 86 in 2017. In between those years, deaths among riders rose first to 69 in 2014, to 75 in 2015 and then to 76 in 2016. The 86 lives lost in 2017 represent a total of 16 percent of all vehicular fatalities in the state that year. In Prince George's County alone, 77 people on motorcycles lost their lives over the course of those five years.