Posts Tagged ‘Child Custody’
Posted Tuesday, January 31st, 2012 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Child Custody, Jurisprudence, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Specific
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I’m no social conservative but, contrary to many South Carolina family law attorneys and judges, I believe that a parent’s adultery is almost automatically relevant on the issue of child custody when such adultery demonstrates a spouse’s failure to honor his or her commitment of sexual fidelity to a spouse. South Carolina case law generally [...]
Tags: Adultery, Child Custody, Jurisprudence
Posted in Child Custody, Jurisprudence, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Specific | 5 Comments »
Posted Monday, January 30th, 2012 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Adoption/Termination of Parental Rights, Child Custody, Jurisprudence, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
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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
Posted in Adoption/Termination of Parental Rights, Child Custody, Jurisprudence, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public | 7 Comments »
Posted Friday, January 20th, 2012 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Child Custody, Jurisprudence, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Of Interest to General Public
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I sometimes think there is some hidden law titled, “The South Carolina Family Law Attorney Full Employment Act,” which requires family court judges to issue child-related restraining orders so vague that, in theory, an infinite number of attorneys could spend an infinite amount of time arguing about whether that restraint has been violated. Such is [...]
Tags: Child Custody, Jurisprudence
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Posted Saturday, December 3rd, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Child Custody, Litigation Strategy, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys
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There are lots of obvious witnesses in a custody case: the child’s teachers; the child’s coaches; the child’s mental health professionals; the parents of the child’s friends; the parent’s adult child(ren). But the best witness can often be someone that few ever think to call: the parent’s ex-spouse. The nature of family court is that [...]
Tags: Child Custody, Litigation Strategy
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Posted Thursday, November 3rd, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Child Custody, Jurisprudence, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
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Yesterday, eight years, eleven months and eleven days since I began representing my family law colleague Douglas Alan Barker, I closed his file after successfully regaining him sole legal and physical custody of his younger daughter and setting mother’s child support obligation on her income from a high paying job in Nashville. What a long, [...]
Tags: Child Custody, Douglas Alan Barker, Jurisprudence
Posted in Child Custody, Jurisprudence, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public | 10 Comments »
Posted Thursday, November 3rd, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Child Custody, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions
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A too sizable portion of my practice time is spent counseling custodial parents (typically mothers) not to undermine the other parent. While part of my counsel is intended to prevent my client from inflicting psychological damage on his or her child, the primary motivation is to prevent my client from undermining his or her goal [...]
Tags: Child Custody, Sibling Visitation, South Carolina Court of Appeals
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Posted Saturday, October 29th, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Child Custody, Jurisprudence, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Of Interest to General Public, South Carolina Specific
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South Carolina family court judges routinely issue restraints against exposing children to a parent’s non-marital romantic companions overnight. When concerned about appearing to be moral scolds, they justify these restraints as prohibiting the children’s exposure to “illegal behavior.” The specific criminal statutes implicated by such behavior are the prohibitions against adultery (S.C. Code § 16-15-60), [...]
Tags: Adultery, Child Custody, Jurisprudence, Lawrence v. Texas
Posted in Child Custody, Jurisprudence, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Of Interest to General Public, South Carolina Specific | 5 Comments »
Posted Thursday, October 27th, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Child Custody, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific
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The October 26, 2011 Court of Appeals opinion in Purser v. Owens highlights the problems that result when family court judges see themselves as moral guardians rather than determiners of a child’s best interests. Purser involved an initial custody adjudication of the parties’ autistic child. The parties were never married and for the first six years [...]
Tags: Autism, Child Custody, South Carolina Court of Appeals
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