Glen Burnie Divorce Attorney Breaks Down the Maryland Filing Process

This episode answers the question almost every Glen Burnie family asks first: how long is this actually going to take? Todd K. Mohink - 30 years in Maryland courtrooms, founding attorney of Law Offices of Todd K. Mohink, PA, and the attorney who argued Braun v. Headley - walks the full divorce timeline for Glen Burnie and Anne Arundel County families, from the day paperwork hits the Annapolis courthouse to the day the judge signs the final decree.

Todd covers the two-track system: an uncontested divorce with a signed MSA wraps in two to four months with a ten-minute Zoom hearing; a contested case runs a minimum of a year to a year and a half. He explains pendente lite relief - temporary child support, custody, and alimony orders that bridge the gap while the full case works through court - and covers the military-specific overlay driving roughly 40% of his practice: SCRA protections for deployed servicemembers, the Bangs formula for dividing military retirement, and the critical rule that Maryland state law - not federal law - governs divorce and retirement division for servicemembers stationed here. He also breaks down physical vs. legal custody, how Anne Arundel County mediation works (two Zoom sessions, $200 per party each), and the self-inflicted mistakes that drag Glen Burnie cases out the longest.