Archive for the ‘Of Interest to General Public’ Category
Posted Monday, January 30th, 2012 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Adoption/Termination of Parental Rights, Child Custody, Jurisprudence, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
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A review of the excellent news reporting from Allyson Bird at the Charleston Post and Courier, regarding the adoption case involving two year-old, Veronica, her prospective adoptive parents, Matt and Melanie Capobianco, and her Cherokee birth father, Dusten Brown, demonstrates a misunderstanding when a “best interests of the child” standard is applicable. For custody cases [...]
Tags: Adoption, Capobianco, Charleston Post & Courier, Child Custody, Jurisprudence, Nikki Haley, Paternity
Posted in Adoption/Termination of Parental Rights, Child Custody, Jurisprudence, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public | 7 Comments »
Posted Friday, January 20th, 2012 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Child Custody, Jurisprudence, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Of Interest to General Public
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I sometimes think there is some hidden law titled, “The South Carolina Family Law Attorney Full Employment Act,” which requires family court judges to issue child-related restraining orders so vague that, in theory, an infinite number of attorneys could spend an infinite amount of time arguing about whether that restraint has been violated. Such is [...]
Tags: Child Custody, Jurisprudence
Posted in Child Custody, Jurisprudence, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Of Interest to General Public | 1 Comment »
Posted Saturday, December 3rd, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public, Rules of Professional (Lawyer) Conduct
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I find myself in an awkward position in which my friend, Charleston Post & Courier reporter Glenn Smith, is investigating and writing about a colleague and former office mate, Citadel General Counsel, Mark C. Brandenburg. Glenn’s an outstanding reporter, investigating and breaking numerous important local stories that are too small to interest the national media. [...]
Tags: Charleston Post & Courier, Glenn Smith, Mark C. Brandenburg, Rules of Professional Conduct, The Citadel
Posted in Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public, Rules of Professional (Lawyer) Conduct | 5 Comments »
Posted Friday, November 18th, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Miscellaneous, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
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I opened my law practice exactly eighteen years ago today. Unlike many of the young attorneys I admire, such as Jenny Moser, T. Ryan Phillips or Anna Galle, it wasn’t a first choice but more of a last resort. I’d been unhappy in my two previous associate positions and decided not to accept a third associate [...]
Tags: Anna Galle, III, Jenny R. Moser, Nicholas Clekis, T. Ryan Phillips, William J. Hamilton
Posted in Miscellaneous, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public | 8 Comments »
Posted Monday, November 14th, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Alimony/Spousal Support, Attorney's Fees, Child Custody, Child Support, Contempt/Enforcement of Orders, Department of Social Services/Child Abuse and Neglect, Divorce and Marriage, Equitable Division/Property Division, Family Court Procedure, Jurisprudence, Mediation/Alternative Dispute Resolution, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Of Interest to General Public, Paternity, South Carolina Specific
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This blog is inspired by myriad important family law issues that current South Carolina case law and statute don’t adequately answer. None of these questions is merely academic, as each has come up at least once in my eighteen years of family law practice. I have firm opinions on the correct answer to some of [...]
Posted in Alimony/Spousal Support, Attorney's Fees, Child Custody, Child Support, Contempt/Enforcement of Orders, Department of Social Services/Child Abuse and Neglect, Divorce and Marriage, Equitable Division/Property Division, Family Court Procedure, Jurisprudence, Mediation/Alternative Dispute Resolution, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Of Interest to General Public, Paternity, South Carolina Specific | 7 Comments »
Posted Friday, November 11th, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Department of Social Services/Child Abuse and Neglect, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
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From a purely pragmatic viewpoint a “successful” life for a sexually reproducing creature is merely having more than two offspring survive to reproductive age. From this same vantage an “unsuccessful” life is simply having one or fewer offspring survive to reproductive age. Consider the many species of cuckoo birds who are “brood parasites,” laying their [...]
Tags: Parenting, Popular Culture
Posted in Department of Social Services/Child Abuse and Neglect, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public | 4 Comments »
Posted Thursday, November 3rd, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Child Custody, Jurisprudence, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
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Yesterday, eight years, eleven months and eleven days since I began representing my family law colleague Douglas Alan Barker, I closed his file after successfully regaining him sole legal and physical custody of his younger daughter and setting mother’s child support obligation on her income from a high paying job in Nashville. What a long, [...]
Tags: Child Custody, Douglas Alan Barker, Jurisprudence
Posted in Child Custody, Jurisprudence, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public | 10 Comments »
Posted Saturday, October 29th, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Child Custody, Jurisprudence, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Of Interest to General Public, South Carolina Specific
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South Carolina family court judges routinely issue restraints against exposing children to a parent’s non-marital romantic companions overnight. When concerned about appearing to be moral scolds, they justify these restraints as prohibiting the children’s exposure to “illegal behavior.” The specific criminal statutes implicated by such behavior are the prohibitions against adultery (S.C. Code § 16-15-60), [...]
Tags: Adultery, Child Custody, Jurisprudence, Lawrence v. Texas
Posted in Child Custody, Jurisprudence, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Of Interest to General Public, South Carolina Specific | 5 Comments »
