Archive for the ‘Contempt/Enforcement of Orders’ Category
Posted Saturday, April 2nd, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Attorney-Client Relations, Contempt/Enforcement of Orders, Litigation Strategy, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys
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Yesterday two different attorneys asked me about accepting service on behalf of a client for rules to show cause. While I will routinely accept service of pleadings (with my client’s permission, of course) I’ve determined it’s unsafe for an attorney to accept service of a rule to show cause on behalf of a client and [...]
Tags: Acceptance of Service, Attorney-Client Relations, Contempt, Litigation Strategy, Rules to Show Cause
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Posted Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Contempt/Enforcement of Orders, Jurisprudence, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Of Interest to General Public, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, United States Supreme Court Decisions
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Yesterday the United States Supreme Court accepted certiorari on the South Carolina case of Price v. Turner, 387 S.C. 142, 691 S.E.2d 470 (2010). The question Mr. Turner asked the Supreme Court to address was “Whether the Supreme Court of South Carolina erred in holding – in conflict with twenty-two federal courts of appeals and [...]
Tags: Child Support, Contempt Enforcement Rule to Show Cause, South Carolina Supreme Court, Susan Dunn, United States Supreme Court
Posted in Contempt/Enforcement of Orders, Jurisprudence, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Of Interest to General Public, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, United States Supreme Court Decisions | 9 Comments »
Posted Friday, August 27th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Child Support, Contempt/Enforcement of Orders, Jurisprudence, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Of Interest to General Public, Paternity, Visitation
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I had lunch yesterday with Charlie F.P. Segars-Andrews, who mentioned she had been contacted to do work with an agency, Responsible Committed Fatherhood Initiative, attempting to assist fathers establish visitation at the same time the Department of Social Services establishes child support. Given my interest in assisting such fathers obtain court-ordered visitation–my most recent volunteer case [...]
Tags: Child Support, F.P. Segars-Andrews, Jurisprudence, Paternity, Popular Culture, Visitation
Posted in Child Support, Contempt/Enforcement of Orders, Jurisprudence, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Of Interest to General Public, Paternity, Visitation | 4 Comments »
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 Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Visitation
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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, Visitation
Posted in Child Custody, Contempt/Enforcement of Orders, Litigation Strategy, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Visitation | 49 Comments »
Posted Thursday, June 17th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Attorney's Fees, Child Custody, Child Support, Contempt/Enforcement of Orders, Litigation Strategy, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys
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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 [personal] jurisdiction. One percent of us understand the concepts clearly and other ninety-nine percent (including me) promptly misremember or forget most of what we learned–and then, possibly, relearn these lessons [...]
Tags: Attorney's Fees, Child Custody, Child Support, Contempt Enforcement Rule to Show Cause, Litigation Strategy, Personal Jurisdiction
Posted in Attorney's Fees, Child Custody, Child Support, Contempt/Enforcement of Orders, Litigation Strategy, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys | 1 Comment »
Posted Tuesday, June 15th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Child Custody, Contempt/Enforcement of Orders, Family Court Procedure, Jurisprudence, Litigation Strategy, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Specific, Visitation
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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 his rule to show cause to enforce his visitation was scheduled for a pre-trial but hadn’t been set for hearing. I found the matter distressing. As I have previous blogged [...]
Tags: Contempt Enforcement Rule to Show Cause, Family Court Procedure, Jurisprudence, Litigation Strategy, Visitation
Posted in Child Custody, Contempt/Enforcement of Orders, Family Court Procedure, Jurisprudence, Litigation Strategy, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Specific, Visitation | 2 Comments »
Posted Monday, March 29th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Contempt/Enforcement of Orders, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific
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I would love to see our South Carolina Supreme Court explain how an indigent holds the key to his cell door by paying $6,000.00 he doesn’t have. Today’s Supreme Court opinion in Price v. Turner, 387 S.C. 142, 691 S.E.2d 470 (2010), makes that claim but does nothing to substantiate it. I have previously noted two potential challenges to [...]
Tags: Child Support, Contempt Enforcement Rule to Show Cause, Jurisprudence, South Carolina Supreme Court
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Posted Tuesday, January 5th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Child Support, Contempt/Enforcement of Orders, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific
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The December 30, 2009 Court of Appeals opinion in SCDSS v. Johnson, 386 S.C. 426, 688 S.E.2d 588 (2009), clarifies the service requirements for notification of attempted registration of a foreign order under the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act (UIFSA) and clarifies when the court can issue a bench warrant for an alleged failure to pay support. [...]
Tags: Child Support, Contempt Enforcement Rule to Show Cause, Department of Social Services, John Magera, South Carolina Court of Appeals, UIFSA, Uniform Interstate Family Support Act
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