The dangers of dating before divorce (or before a final order of separate maintenance)

Posted Thursday, February 12th, 2015 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Alimony/Spousal Support, Child Custody, Divorce and Marriage, Equitable Distribution/Property Division, Law and Culture, Litigation Strategy, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Specific

People coming out of an unhappy marriage are often eager to begin dating. Yet there are risks in dating before one is divorced.  My preference

In praise of modest decision making in family court

Posted Sunday, February 1st, 2015 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Jurisprudence, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys

With a new family court judge for Charleston County due to be elected this week, the issue of the candidates’ attributes, and the bigger question

Eating our seed corn

Posted Monday, January 19th, 2015 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Law and Culture, Of Interest to General Public

Two recent news stories, one local and one national, highlight just how badly our society is doing caring for the majority of our children, especially

Marijuana use and child custody in South Carolina

Posted Tuesday, March 25th, 2014 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Child Custody, Law and Culture, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Of Interest to General Public, South Carolina Specific

One of my oldest and dearest friends was awarded custody of his two children and kept custody until they emancipated.  Not only was he openly

The Burgess opinion and “The End of Men”

Posted Thursday, January 23rd, 2014 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Jurisprudence, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public

Every published opinion tells a story and the January 15, 2014 Court of Appeals opinion in Burgess v. Burgess, 753 S.E.2d 566 (S.C. App. 2014), tells

Changing family formation and the practice of family law

Posted Friday, August 2nd, 2013 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Divorce and Marriage, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public

The past twenty years have seen rapid demographic changes in family court clientele.  I am seeing fewer divorces among the professional/managerial classes and seeing more

(Im)perfectly P!nk

Posted Friday, April 26th, 2013 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Book, Film or Music Reviews, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public

I consider myself lucky to have seen P!nk for the second time last month in Charlotte, this time from the center of the VIP mosh

Will your adult children dread visiting you?

Posted Thursday, March 28th, 2013 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Child Custody, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public

I attended a hearing yesterday in which two seemingly caring parents of teenagers were, perhaps unwittingly, doing their best to destroy the other’s relationship with

Zero tolerance idiocracy

Posted Friday, March 8th, 2013 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public

It’s dress up Friday at my daughter’s magnet school, in which students can ditch uniforms and come as their favorite novel character.  My daughter’s dressing

Revenge of (and against) the bluenoses

Posted Friday, March 8th, 2013 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Divorce and Marriage, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public

For almost 20 years I’ve seen many of my family court clients gets slammed for unbiblical sexual behavior.  Initially it was the obvious–adultery.  But in

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