Posts Tagged ‘Litigation Strategy’
Posted Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Alimony/Spousal Support, Litigation Strategy, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys
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For reasons that are only marginally explicable, South Carolina attorneys and judges are reluctant to issue orders or enter agreements that combine rehabilitative alimony with permanent alimony. However, there are common circumstances in which a combined alimony award makes sense. Permanent periodic alimony is designed to allow a supported spouse to maintain the marital lifestyle [...]
Tags: Alimony/Spousal Support, Litigation Strategy, Rehabilitative Alimony
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Posted Sunday, February 12th, 2012 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Equitable Division/Property Division, Litigation Strategy, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Specific
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Typically, when a separated or separating spouse contacts me to negotiate a separation agreement, I suggest working towards reaching an agreement before I file an action to either approve the agreement or to obtain a separate maintenance order if the parties cannot come to an agreement. However when my client has an employee pension or [...]
Tags: Coverture, Equitable Division/Property Division, Litigation Strategy, Retirement
Posted in Equitable Division/Property Division, Litigation Strategy, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Specific | 1 Comment »
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 Friday, December 2nd, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Alimony/Spousal Support, Child Support, Litigation Strategy, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Specific
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Counseling clients to pay support by having their bank mail the support check can be a useful prophylactic for defending false claims of late payments. Most of my child support and alimony-paying clients hate paying through the courts. This hatred is completely justified. The 5% fee associated with paying support through the South Carolina clerks [...]
Tags: Alimony/Spousal Support, Child Support, Litigation Strategy
Posted in Alimony/Spousal Support, Child Support, Litigation Strategy, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Specific | 3 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 Friday, November 11th, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Litigation Strategy, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys
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Few math majors go into law and those who do rarely go into family law. I’m one of the rare family law attorneys who often thinks in mathematical constructs. A question from last night’s “newbies” class demonstrates the benefits of sometimes thinking like a mathematician when practicing family law. A newbie asked for advice in [...]
Tags: Litigation Strategy, Pareto optimal, Vilfredo Pareto
Posted in Litigation Strategy, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys | 2 Comments »
Posted Saturday, October 1st, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Litigation Strategy, Mediation/Alternative Dispute Resolution, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Specific
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For a few years my friend and colleague, Barry W. Knobel of Knobel Mediation Services, LLC, has been encouraging me to rethink my opposition to family court arbitration. Barry is a retired family court judge–thus my frequent, joking references to him as “the formerly honorable…”. He now makes his living doing family court mediation and [...]
Tags: Anthony Lamantia, Arbitration, Barry W. Knobel, Litigation Strategy, Mediation/Alternative Dispute Resolution
Posted in Litigation Strategy, Mediation/Alternative Dispute Resolution, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Specific | 2 Comments »
