June 18, 2010
On May 12, 2010, South Carolina enacted Senate bill 1172, which makes changes to the Child Protection and Permanency statute. Among the highlights: The revisions
June 17, 2010
In the first year of law school everyone takes Civil Procedure, where we learn about in rem jurisdiction, quasi in rem jurisdiction and in personam
Applying Family Court Rule 27 to line jump the docket on visitation enforcement
June 15, 2010
I met with a father earlier this week for a consult. He mentioned that he had gone five months without seeing his teenage daughter and
The link between animal cruelty and domestic violence
June 15, 2010
When I was in my late teens my best friend was a brilliant, iconoclastic, Catholic, conservative, whose parents has escaped Communist Poland and lived in
June 14, 2010
This is the final ethics lesson I wish to impart to my mentees, though I intend to add to this series in the future as
June 14, 2010
Thomas McDow made the excellent suggestion that I do a column on the Rule 8.3 duty to report professional misconduct. It was a failure on
Ethics Opinions Every South Carolina Attorney Should Know: Part XV, Using Purloined Evidence
June 13, 2010
Had I been a member of the South Carolina Supreme Court in June 2008, I would have voted for In Re Wood, 378 S.C. 632, 663