Court of Appeals reconsiders its decision and reinstates no fault divorce
August 4, 2014
N.B., on October 1, 2014, the Court of Appeals modified this modified opinion: Third time's a charm? When I blogged on the May 14, 2014
Court of Appeals finds adultery by both spouses and changes ground for divorce
May 15, 2014
N.B., on August 1, 2014 the Court of Appeals refiled its opinion and simply affirmed the family court’s no-fault ground for divorce: Court of Appeals reconsiders
Should there be a uniform waiting period for a no-fault divorce?
March 8, 2014
I rarely blog on proposed family law legislation. Often legislation fizzles to nothing: in my twenty years of practice bills to abolish common law marriage
What becomes of a transmuted waterfront lot?
February 20, 2013
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
Considerations in reconciliation
February 18, 2013
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
What proof is needed to obtain a physical cruelty divorce?
October 18, 2012
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
Inter-spousal legal claims that survive the marital dissolution action
June 7, 2012
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
Counseling the aggrieved spouse to move on
February 23, 2012
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
