Archive for the ‘Litigation Strategy’ Category
Posted Thursday, August 5th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Litigation Strategy, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
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Early in my career I would treat any outlandish allegation an opposing counsel would make regarding my client as serious. Upon being informed via telephone of some wacked-out claim–my client was having sex with a German Shepherd puppy while snorting cocaine off of a 16 year old girl’s buttocks while the children were in an [...]
Tags: Attorney-Client Relations, Litigation Strategy
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Posted Wednesday, August 4th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Child Custody, Contempt/Enforcement of Orders, Litigation Strategy, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
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When I first started practicing family law I would encounter a number of visitation enforcement hearings in which the custodial parent tried to excuse his or her failure to have the children visit with the other parent because “the children didn’t want to.” Occasionally, and much to my frustration, the judges would sometime accept this [...]
Tags: Child Custody, Contempt Enforcement Rule to Show Cause, Litigation Strategy
Posted in Child Custody, Contempt/Enforcement of Orders, Litigation Strategy, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public | 18 Comments »
Posted Sunday, July 18th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Department of Social Services/Child Abuse and Neglect, Litigation Strategy, Of Interest to General Public, South Carolina Specific
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I received an email from a recently licensed attorney noting a previous blog and asking whether I thought she, as the guardian ad litem in an abuse and neglect case, should be making recommendations on the merits. This got me thinking about how the recent changes to the abuse and neglect statute, explained here, will impact [...]
Tags: Child Abuse and Neglect, Department of Social Services, Litigation Strategy
Posted in Department of Social Services/Child Abuse and Neglect, Litigation Strategy, Of Interest to General Public, South Carolina Specific | 1 Comment »
Posted Monday, July 12th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Aimed Primarily to Attorneys, Litigation Strategy, Not South Carolina Specific
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This blog contains draft materials for an upcoming lecture and is a work in progress. Suggestions and comments most appreciated. I will probably revise this blog as comments come in. Pursuant to South Carolina Rule of Family Court 26 (a & b): An order or judgment pursuant to an adjudication in a domestic relations case [...]
Tags: Appellate Practice, Family Court Procedure, Litigation Strategy, The Honorable Jack Alan Landis
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Posted Wednesday, July 7th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Aimed Primarily to Attorneys, Litigation Strategy, South Carolina Specific
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South Carolina Family Court Rule 17(a), appears to mitigate some of the harsher consequences under the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure for a failure to file a timely answer. Therefore most family law attorneys treat default in family court as a non issue. Perhaps we shouldn’t. South Carolina Rule of Civil Procedure 12(a), directs [...]
Tags: Family Court Procedure, Litigation Strategy
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Posted Tuesday, July 6th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Litigation Strategy, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
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There are approximately a half dozen family law attorneys in the Charleston, South Carolina area whom I consider extremely underrated. Typically their hourly rate is in the $200 to $250 range but their work strikes me as equal, and sometimes superior, to attorneys who bill in the $300 to $400 per hour range. What [...]
Tags: Appellate Practice, Litigation Strategy
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Posted Sunday, July 4th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Aimed Primarily to Attorneys, Litigation Strategy, South Carolina Specific
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I negotiated the resolution of a motion for temporary relief at the courthouse on Friday. On at least three different occasions during the hour and a half negotiation either I or the opposing attorney asked for language in the agreement based on nothing more than our clear expectation that the family court judges could not [...]
Tags: Litigation Strategy, Motions for Temporary Relief
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Posted Sunday, July 4th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Aimed Primarily to Attorneys, Alimony/Spousal Support, Child Custody, Child Support, Family Court Procedure, Litigation Strategy, Property Division, South Carolina Specific
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It is my experience that most family law attorneys in South Carolina reflexively file a motion for temporary relief when filing a contested family court action or fail to file a marital dissolution action when they hope to negotiate a separation agreement. Yet I know of two good reasons (there may be others) to file [...]
Tags: Alimony Modification, Child Custody Modification, Child Support Modification, Discovery, Family Court Procedure, Guardian ad litem, Litigation Strategy, Motions for Temporary Relief, Property Division
Posted in Aimed Primarily to Attorneys, Alimony/Spousal Support, Child Custody, Child Support, Family Court Procedure, Litigation Strategy, Property Division, South Carolina Specific | 2 Comments »
