Posts Tagged ‘Divorce’
Posted Wednesday, February 20th, 2013 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Divorce and Marriage, Equitable Division/Property Division, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific
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In my almost four years of blogging about every reported South Carolina appellate decision from family court and over fifteen years of handling family law appeals, I can discern a few clear patterns on when the appellate courts will reverse an equitable distribution award. Math errors and clear mistakes of law will always lead to [...]
Tags: Divorce, Equitable Division/Property Division, South Carolina Court of Appeals
Posted in Divorce and Marriage, Equitable Division/Property Division, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific | 2 Comments »
Posted Monday, February 18th, 2013 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Divorce and Marriage, Litigation Strategy, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Specific
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Occasionally separated spouses in marital dissolution actions attempt to reconcile. Even though it’s bad for my business when they do so, I generally encourage reconciliation There are times when reconciliation is quite beneficial for my client. Perhaps my client was the Defendant and did not desire the separation in the first place. Or my client [...]
Tags: Divorce, Litigation Strategy
Posted in Divorce and Marriage, Litigation Strategy, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Specific | 1 Comment »
Posted Thursday, October 18th, 2012 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Divorce and Marriage, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Specific
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Physical cruelty is one of South Carolina’s four fault divorce grounds. Physical cruelty is “actual personal violence, or such a course of physical treatment as endangers life, limb or health, and renders cohabitation unsafe.” Gorecki v. Gorecki, 387 S.C. 626, 693 S.E.2d 419 (2010). In considering what acts constitute physical cruelty, the family court must consider [...]
Tags: Divorce, Physical Cruelty
Posted in Divorce and Marriage, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Specific | No Comments »
Posted Thursday, June 7th, 2012 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Divorce and Marriage, Litigation Strategy, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys
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Except when explicitly reserved, most inter-spousal claims do not survive a divorce or final order of separate maintenance. If one spouse owes the other money or has some property that the belongs to the other, the possession of that property or the payment on that debt needs to be addressed in the final order. If [...]
Tags: Divorce, Litigation Strategy
Posted in Divorce and Marriage, Litigation Strategy, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys | 2 Comments »
Posted Thursday, February 23rd, 2012 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Attorney-Client Relations, Divorce and Marriage, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys
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I finalized a divorce earlier this week in which the other party discovered my client’s adultery a few years ago and filed for divorce twenty months ago. The case ended with my client agreeing to pay six-figure lump sum alimony. Yet at the divorce hearing, my client was relaxed and happy while his soon-to-be-ex looked [...]
Tags: Attorney-Client Relations, Divorce
Posted in Attorney-Client Relations, Divorce and Marriage, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys | 5 Comments »
Posted Tuesday, January 31st, 2012 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Divorce and Marriage, Family Court Procedure, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Specific
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To prevent spouses from making up grounds for a divorce that they are not entitled to, South Carolina requires “corroboration” of divorce grounds to prevent “collusive” divorce requests. However, one shouldn’t assume that an independent witness or documentary evidence is necessary to corroborate a fault divorce. Often an admission against interest will be sufficient to [...]
Tags: Corroboration, Divorce, Family Court Procedure
Posted in Divorce and Marriage, Family Court Procedure, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Specific | 7 Comments »
Posted Saturday, November 19th, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Divorce and Marriage, Litigation Strategy, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Specific
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Did an uncontested fault divorce yesterday in which the pro se defendant failed to appear. To prove the defendant’s habitual intoxication required testimony and evidence of his extremely heavy drinking. The result was a brief, incomplete, biography of a life devolved into a tragic waste. Not quite as depressing to hear as to live through, [...]
Tags: Divorce, Litigation Strategy
Posted in Divorce and Marriage, Litigation Strategy, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Specific | 2 Comments »
Posted Tuesday, September 27th, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Alimony/Spousal Support, Divorce and Marriage, Law and Culture, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Of Interest to General Public, South Carolina Specific
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One of the many oddities of South Carolina family law is that a husband is typically best off committing adultery when he and his wife are either very young or very old. It’s the middle-aged dudes who suffer the most financially from their philandering. When a couple is young, especially if there are no children, [...]
Tags: Adultery, Divorce, Popular Culture
Posted in Alimony/Spousal Support, Divorce and Marriage, Law and Culture, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Of Interest to General Public, South Carolina Specific | 2 Comments »
