Ms. Stillman represents individuals and companies in her family law and health care practices. She was able to meld the two when she represented the husband, who was a co-owner of a nursing home and two assisted living facilities in the client’s divorce from his wife, the other co-owner of the company. Her involvement facilitated the continued operation and success of the business, and the case was featured in “Kicked to the Curb: The Extraordinary Partnership,” Baltimore SmartCEO Magazine, September 2005.
Ms. Stillman has been named to The Daily Record's Circle of Excellence, a distinction earned by being named one of Maryland's Top 100 Women three times. Maryland's Top 100 Women was created to recognize outstanding achievement by women as demonstrated through professional accomplishment, community leadership, and mentoring. The Circle of Excellence is awarded for sustained achievement.
Family Law
Ms. Stillman co-chairs one of the premier family law practices in the state of Maryland. With offices in downtown Baltimore and Towson, Ms. Stillman and the family law team at Tydings & Rosenberg have been representing men and women in complex domestic relations cases for decades.
Ms. Stillman has a long track record of achievement in a variety of family law cases. She regularly negotiates complex separation and property settlement agreements that involve the valuation and division of assets such as businesses, partnerships, investments, and retirement plans. She often handles cases in which custody, visitation rights, alimony, and child support are in dispute. In cases involving many moving parts and points of contention, Ms. Stillman is a tenacious yet sensitive advocate with uncommonly deep experience and the resources of a large law firm at her disposal.
An accomplished trial attorney as well as a skilled negotiator, Ms. Stillman has tried numerous family law cases throughout Maryland. In one of the largest marital property cases on the Eastern Shore, she argued successfully for the appointment of a receiver to control the opposing party’s assets – a rare ruling in a divorce case in Maryland.
Ms. Stillman has also represented parties in international and interstate custody disputes involving the Hague Convention and other international treaties, as well as the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act.
Ms. Stillman is experienced in all areas of family law, including:
- Premarital and post-marital agreements;
- Property division and monetary awards;
- Custody and visitation disputes;
- Alimony and child support;
- Pre- and post-divorce planning;
- Separation agreements;
- Grandparents’ and other third party visitation and custody cases;
- Adoptions (foreign and domestic);
- Paternity cases;
- Appeals; and
- Mediations.
Health Care
Ms. Stillman is co-chair of the Health Care Industry Group and represents senior housing and long-term care facilities and other health care providers and professionals before state and federal regulatory agencies, as well as in commercial transactions and litigation. Her healthcare background is extensive. Prior to joining the firm, she served as Assistant Secretary for Business and Regulatory Services at the Maryland Department of Health & Mental Hygiene (DHMH). In this position, she oversaw the regulation and licensing of all of Maryland’s health care facilities and individual health care practitioners. She also was the Governor’s representative for passage of the revised assisted living law and oversaw implementation of significant new nursing home regulations that are still in effect today.
Highlights of her health care experience include:
- Litigating in federal court, on behalf of a major Maryland nursing home, against the Health Care Financing Administration (now CMS) over nursing home enforcement regulations, resulting in HCFA changing a key Medicaid regulation in favor of skilled nursing facilities;
- Representing national corporations in the acquisition and sale of senior housing facilities in Maryland;
- Obtaining exceptions to, and quick review of, licensing requirements for senior housing and health care providers from DHMH;
- Representing a national Maryland-based pharmaceutical company in regulatory issues before the Maryland Board of Pharmacy;
- Representing Continuing Care Retirement Communities (CCRCs) throughout the process of obtaining a CCRC Certificate of Registration from the Maryland Department of Aging;
- Representing senior housing, long-term care, home health, and other health care clients before the Office of Administrative Hearings on issues such as Medicaid reimbursement, revocation of licenses and other sanctions, involuntary discharges, Medicaid enrollment for residents, and other state regulatory enforcement actions;
- Representing senior housing and long term care facilities, ambulatory care and surgical centers, group homes for the developmentally disabled, home health care agencies, and other types of health care facilities before the Office of Health Care Quality in all different types of regulatory procedures, including, but not limited to, initial licensure, preparing for surveys, drafting plans of correction, preparing for IDRs, case resolution conferences, imposition of deficiencies and sanctions up to and including license revocation and decertification from Medicaid and Medicare programs; and
- Handling all the health law aspects of a receivership case in which a company that owned over 40 nursing homes was put into a voluntary receivership, resulting in the sale of the remaining assets, the outstanding Medicare and Medicaid cost reports being settled for the nursing homes going back numerous years, as well as litigating a wide of variety of issues affecting the receivership estate.
Leadership
Ms. Stillman has taken on a variety of leadership roles within the legal profession. She is a member of the Custody Subcommittee of the Maryland Judicial Conference. She has been appointed a Volunteer Mediator for family law cases in the Baltimore City Circuit Court’s Family Division, is a former co-chair of the Bar Association of Baltimore City's Family Law Committee, and is active in the Baltimore and Howard County Bar Associations' Family Law Committees. By appointment of the Office of the Mayor, she served on the Governing Board of Baltimore’s Head Start program from 2010-2011.
Through her involvement in a variety of non-profit organizations, Ms. Stillman advocates for health care, long-term care, and senior housing providers. She currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the Centers for Healthy Maryland (a part of Med-Chi) and as a member of Lifespan Network's Legislative and Regulatory Policy Committee, as well as the Health Facilities Association of Maryland as a member of its Health Planning and Regulatory Committee. She is also a former board member of the Maryland Assisted Living Association.
Ms. Stillman has written numerous articles on a wide range of domestic relations topics. She is a frequent lecturer on a wide range of domestic relations topics to fellow attorneys, psychologists, clinical social workers and other types of therapists, accountants, financial planners, stockbrokers, and other advisors, including the Maryland Society of Clinical Social Workers, Maryland Psychological Association, Maryland Association of CPAs, and the Financial Planning Association of Maryland.
Ms. Stillman is AV® Peer Review Rated – the highest possible peer review rating from Martindale-Hubbell.
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