Todd K. Mohink is a Maryland family law and criminal defense lawyer who has practiced in Anne Arundel and Howard County courtrooms for more than thirty years. He is the founding lawyer of the Law Offices of Todd K. Mohink, PA, where his practice concentrates on divorce, custody, child support, and CPS and child-abuse civil matters, alongside selective high-end criminal defense. He is licensed in the Maryland state courts and is a member of the Federal Bar for the District of Maryland. His full biography is posted on the firm's attorney page.
Mohink's path to law was not the original plan. He graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1990 intending to build a career in politics, interning with a Maryland senator's office before deciding that path required connections he did not have. He earned his J.D. from the University of Baltimore School of Law in 1995, interning with the Maryland Attorney General's Office and working cases through the school's Civil Legal Clinic before he had a diploma in hand. That early courtroom exposure set the pattern for how he has practiced since: family law and criminal defense, learned by doing rather than by watching.
After founding his own practice in Glen Burnie, Mohink expanded to a second office serving Howard County families in Columbia, and the firm's Anne Arundel County location, in the Empire Towers building on Ritchie Highway, remains its primary base. The firm's Howard County office sits across from the Mall in Columbia, giving Mohink a standing presence in both of the counties his podcast, Maryland Law Explained with Todd Mohink, was built to serve.
The case that best explains why courts and colleagues treat Mohink's opinion on custody disputes as informed rather than merely confident is Braun v. Headley, 131 Md. App. 588 (2000), a Court of Special Appeals decision he argued for the father of a child born outside marriage after the child's mother fabricated a medical excuse, telling Mohink's client the child had severe asthma, and used it to relocate the child to El Mirage, Arizona without his knowledge. Years of custody litigation followed, ending with full custody awarded to the father and limited access for the mother based on the court's findings about her psychological state. Opposing counsel pursued the case through the Court of Special Appeals, then to what is now the Supreme Court of Maryland, and finally sought review from the Supreme Court of the United States, which declined to hear it. The opinion held that a parent's constitutional right to travel does not override a child's best interests in a relocation dispute. And it remains mandatory authority that Maryland courts are required to apply in custody-relocation cases today. Mohink has since built a career, and a professional-membership list, around the same subject matter: he sits on the Anne Arundel County Bar Association's Family Law Committee and the Howard County Bar Association, belongs to the Maryland State Bar Association's Family Law Section, and holds memberships in the Maryland Criminal Defense Attorneys' Association and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. The National Trial Lawyers has named him to its Top 100 Trial Lawyers list. And he holds Martindale-Hubbell's Client Champion Award and Avvo's Client's Choice Award.
The connection between that record and this book is direct. Maryland Divorce and Child Support answers the two questions Mohink's Anne Arundel and Howard County clients ask most often, in the same plain register he uses with a family sitting across the conference table from him for the first time. He hosts Maryland Law Explained with Todd Mohink, distributed on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, and the firm keeps a presence on LinkedIn and Facebook under the Maryland Law Help name.
Readers who want to talk through a Maryland divorce or child support matter directly with the firm can schedule a consultation or call the firm directly at 410-766-0113, where a live answering service, not an automated line, takes calls every evening and weekend.