Archive for the ‘Adoption/Termination of Parental Rights’ Category
Posted Monday, January 30th, 2012 by Gregory Forman
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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
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Posted Friday, December 23rd, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Adoption/Termination of Parental Rights, Department of Social Services/Child Abuse and Neglect, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific
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In the December 16, 2011 opinion in SCDSS v. Mother and Father, the Court of Appeals reversed a family court permanency planning order requiring the Department of Social Services (DSS) to bring a termination of parental rights (TPR) action against Mother and instead ordered the matter remanded for a reunification plan. This case started when [...]
Tags: Child Abuse and Neglect, Department of Social Services, South Carolina Court of Appeals, Termination of Parental Rights
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Posted Tuesday, October 4th, 2011 by Gregory Forman
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The October 3, 2011 Supreme Court opinion in Charleston County DSS v. Marccuci reverses a family court order terminating Sean Taylor’s (Father’s) parental rights. The reversal is based, in a large part, upon a convoluted procedural history that mitigated the grounds upon which the lower court based the termination of parental rights (TPR). The procedural [...]
Tags: Jason Scott Luck, South Carolina Supreme Court, Termination of Parental Rights
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Posted Monday, July 18th, 2011 by Gregory Forman
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In SCDSS v. M. R. C. L., 393 S.C. 387, 712 S.E.2d 452 (2011), it took the South Carolina Supreme Court less than a year to reverse the Court of Appeals’ opinion, 390 S.C. 329, 701 S.E.2d 757 (Ct. App. 2010), which itself reversed a family court grant of termination of parental right against a mother whom the [...]
Tags: Department of Social Services, South Carolina Supreme Court, Termination of Parental Rights
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Posted Thursday, May 5th, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Adoption/Termination of Parental Rights, Child Custody, Jurisprudence, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Of Interest to General Public, South Carolina Appellate Decisions
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The creation of parental rights and responsibilities for unwed fathers are hardly reciprocal. The state, the mother, or the child’s guardian can come after an unwed father at any point to seek child support. Age 17? Sure. Even after the child is an adult if that child has physical or mental disabilities. In contrast, an [...]
Tags: Child Custody, Jurisprudence, Paternity, South Carolina Supreme Court
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Posted Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010 by Gregory Forman
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Note: this decision was later reversed by the South Carolina Supreme Court. See, Supreme Court grants termination of parental rights, finding mother’s failure to support was “willful” Today’s 2-1 decision in SC Department of Social Services v. M. R. C. L., 390 S.C. 329, 701 S.E.2d 757 (Ct. App. 2010), reversed a family court ruling terminating [...]
Tags: Department of Social Services, South Carolina Court of Appeals, Termination of Parental Rights
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Posted Friday, June 18th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
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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 limits when the Department of Social Services (DSS) will be required by the family court to make “reasonable efforts to preserve or reunify a family.” S.C. Code § 63-7-1640. It [...]
Tags: Child Abuse and Neglect, Children's Law Center, South Carolina Code, Termination of Parental Rights
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Posted Monday, March 1st, 2010 by Gregory Forman
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Today’s Supreme Court opinion in Doe v. Roe, 386 S.C. 624, 690 S.E.2d 573 (2010), reverses the Court of Appeals and affirms the Family Court’s termination of Father’s parental rights when Father waited until daughter was nine months old before seeking to establish his parental rights. Justice Pleicones dissented, finding that “the Court of Appeals correctly [...]
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