For her performance, Meredith received two Emmy Award nominations. At that time, the actress was billed as Meredith Baxter Birney, though she drop her ex-husband's last name.

Meredith Baxter: Ex-Husband David Birney Hit Me She recalls in new memoir, "I'd better not get up because he's going to hit me again" ...

Birney met future wife Meredith Baxter Birney on the 1972 CBS sitcom American actress Meredith Baxter Birney and her husband, American actor David Birney, in New York City, New York, circa 1985.

Here's what former 'Family Ties' star Meredith Baxter had to say about her ex-husband's futile try to get hired on the NBC comedy.

The second installment of the Meredith Baxter Birney double-header is ”Inside `Family Ties`: Behind the Scenes of a Hit,” a WTTW-Ch. 11 production that airs at 8 p.m. Monday.

Actress Meredith Baxter, who played mother Elyse Keaton on 80s TV hit Family Ties, said she was a victim of domestic violence by the hands of her ex-husband David Birney in her new book Untied ...

Birney, now 71, and Baxter were married from 1974 to 1989, and had three kids together. We never heard of them discussing spousal abuse on Bridget Loves Bernie, though that may have been because ...

David Birney thinks ex-wife Meredith Baxter's new memoir belongs in the fiction section. Claims that he abused her during their 15-year marriage are "an appalling abuse of the truth," Birney said ...

Meredith Baxter, former ‘Family Ties’ star, alleges ex-husband David Birney abused her NBC Meredith Baxter alleged in a ‘Today’ show interview that her ex, actor David Birney, abused her.

Meredith Baxter's ex denies abuse claims Meredith Baxter's ex-husband denied her claims that he repeatedly hit the U.S. actress during their 16-year marriage.

Just ask Meredith Baxter, star of "Bridget Loves Birney." In a new memoir, she says David Birney - her co-star in the 1970s sitcom and her real-life husband - struck her more than once.