Maryland House Bill 48: Family Law - Children in Need of Assistance and Termination of Parental Rights (Right to Fight Act)

Maryland · 2026 Regular Session

What it does

Repealing a provision that authorizes a local department of social services to ask the juvenile court to find that reasonable efforts to reunify a child with the child's parent or guardian are not required if the local department concludes that a parent or guardian has involuntarily lost parental rights to a sibling of the child; and repealing the authorization for a juvenile court to waive a local department's obligation to provide certain services if a parent has involuntarily lost certain parental rights.

Latest action

Hearing 1/29 at 2:00 p.m. (2026-01-16)

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