Posts Tagged ‘Adultery’
Posted Wednesday, July 21st, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Alimony/Spousal Support, Divorce and Marriage, Equitable Division/Property Division, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific
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The July 24, 2010 Court of Appeals opinion in Kennedy v. Kennedy, 389 S.C. 494, 699 S.E.2d 184 (Ct. App. 2010) provides some guidance on proof of adultery, alimony, and apportionment of marital debt. The family court refused to find that Wife committed adultery and the Court of Appeals affirmed. Husband’s evidence of adultery was solely based on [...]
Tags: Adultery, Alimony/Spousal Support, Credibility, Equitable Division/Property Division, South Carolina Court of Appeals
Posted in Alimony/Spousal Support, Divorce and Marriage, Equitable Division/Property Division, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific | 2 Comments »
Posted Tuesday, May 18th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Child Custody, Litigation Strategy, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Specific
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The ability to easily add pages to my web site combined with the increasing understanding that many clients and potential clients ask me similar questions that cannot easily be explained orally and can best be convincingly explained in writing and with hypertext links has inspired a flurry of Frequently Asked Question drafting. Basically, when I [...]
Tags: Adultery, Child Custody, Child Custody Modification, Child Support, Civil Procedure, Family Court, Motions for Temporary Relief, South Carolina
Posted in Child Custody, Litigation Strategy, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Specific | No Comments »
Posted Wednesday, April 14th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Alimony/Spousal Support, Divorce and Marriage, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific
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I have had a number of cases in which a spouse (in my experience, always the husband) has destroyed the home phone in the midst of a domestic altercation. Whether my client was the perpetrator or the victim of the phone destruction I have always taken this action to be of great significance: seeing it [...]
Tags: Adultery, Alimony/Spousal Support, Divorce, Physical Cruelty, South Carolina Court of Appeals
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Posted Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Alimony/Spousal Support, Divorce and Marriage, Jurisprudence, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Specific
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Condonation (a legal term meaning “conditional forgiveness”) is a powerful defense to a fault divorce in South Carolina. If proven, condonation revives an alimony claim despite a spouse’s adultery and notwithstanding South Carolina’s statutory bar [S.C. Code Ann. § 20-3-130(A)] to awarding alimony to an adulterous spouse. See, Grubbs v. Grubbs, 272 S.C. 138, 140, [...]
Tags: Adultery, Alimony/Spousal Support, Attorney-Client Relations, Attorneys/Lawyers, Condonation, Divorce, Litigation Strategy, Marital Litigation in South Carolina, Popular Culture, Unpublished Opinions
Posted in Alimony/Spousal Support, Divorce and Marriage, Jurisprudence, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Specific | No Comments »
Posted Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Alimony/Spousal Support, Divorce and Marriage, Litigation Strategy, Of Interest to General Public, South Carolina Specific
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Professor Roy T. Stuckey’s excellent guidebook, Marital Litigation in South Carolina: Substantive Law (3rd. Ed), has little use for the defense of connivance, concluding its section on the defense, that it “should not be utilized except where it would be manifestly unjust to penalize a basically innocent but deceived spouse.” However, in an era in [...]
Tags: Adultery, Alimony/Spousal Support, Divorce, Litigation Strategy, Marital Litigation in South Carolina, Popular Culture, Roy T. Stuckey
Posted in Alimony/Spousal Support, Divorce and Marriage, Litigation Strategy, Of Interest to General Public, South Carolina Specific | 4 Comments »
Posted Saturday, February 27th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Divorce and Marriage, Law and Culture, Of Interest to General Public, South Carolina Specific
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Under S.C. Code Ann. § 20-3-80, titled Required delays before reference and final decree; exceptions, South Carolina law sets specific waiting periods before the court can grant a divorce. That section reads: No reference shall be had before two months after the filing of the complaint in the office of the Clerk of Court, nor [...]
Tags: Adultery, Charleston Post & Courier, Divorce, Jurisprudence, Mark Sanford
Posted in Divorce and Marriage, Law and Culture, Of Interest to General Public, South Carolina Specific | 3 Comments »
Posted Friday, February 19th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Alimony/Spousal Support, Jurisprudence, Of Interest to General Public, South Carolina Specific
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I had a recent phone conference with a New Jersey attorney as we discussed the advantages of disadvantages of fighting an alimony case in South Carolina versus fighting it in New Jersey. As I discussed the factors that the South Carolina courts might examine in deciding alimony, New Jersey counsel kept stating incredulously: “they’d really [...]
Tags: Adultery, Alimony/Spousal Support, Divorce, Jurisprudence, Popular Culture
Posted in Alimony/Spousal Support, Jurisprudence, Of Interest to General Public, South Carolina Specific | 4 Comments »
Posted Saturday, January 30th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Divorce and Marriage, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
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While many in our culture believe contemporary folks wallow in sin, merely from the fact that women in our culture expect greater respect than they might have expected fifty or one hundred years ago makes me believe that the amount of male infidelity is actually declining over time. The multiple and long-term affairs of Franklin [...]
Tags: Adultery, Divorce, Jurisprudence, Morality, Popular Culture, Sex
Posted in Divorce and Marriage, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public | 6 Comments »
