Posts Tagged ‘New York Times’
Posted Thursday, July 22nd, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Department of Social Services/Child Abuse and Neglect, 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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My first year of law school the United States Supreme Court, in the case of Deshaney v. Winnebago Cty. Soc. Servs. Dept., 489 U.S. 189 (1989), rejected a claim that negligence of a child protective service agency to protect a child from an abusive caregiver was a violation of the due process clause of the [...]
Tags: Charleston Post & Courier, Child Abuse and Neglect, Department of Social Services, Jurisprudence, New York Times, United States Supreme Court
Posted in Department of Social Services/Child Abuse and Neglect, Jurisprudence, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Of Interest to General Public | 9 Comments »
Posted Tuesday, June 15th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Jurisprudence, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public, South Carolina Appellate Decisions
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When I was in my late teens my best friend was a brilliant, iconoclastic, Catholic, conservative, whose parents has escaped Communist Poland and lived in Apartheid South Africa before emigrating to the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles. My political beliefs were not nearly as well thought out or firmly held but I came from [...]
Tags: Animal Cruelty, Child Abuse and Neglect, Domestic Abuse, Henry McMaster, New York Times, South Carolina Attorney General, South Carolina Supreme Court, Unpublished Opinions
Posted in Jurisprudence, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public, South Carolina Appellate Decisions | 2 Comments »
Posted Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Equitable Division/Property Division, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
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Practicing family law actually provides some, imprecise, insights into the state of the economy. For example, there have been periods the past two years when it seemed that even middle-class prospective clients were searching for the lowest priced lawyer, experience be damned. Most of my peer were struggling for business six months ago. Further, for [...]
Tags: Equitable Division/Property Division, New York Times, Real Estate
Posted in Equitable Division/Property Division, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public | 3 Comments »
Posted Sunday, May 23rd, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Jurisprudence, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
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Shortly after the South Carolina Supreme Court rejected Judge Segars-Andrews’ appeal seeking to overturn the decision of the Judicial Merit Selection Commission that she was unqualified to remain a judge, I blogged about the difficulties in designing a good system to select judges: How else should we select judges? In today’s New York Times, former [...]
Tags: F.P. Segars-Andrews, Judicial Elections, Jurisprudence, New York Times, Sandra Day O'Connor, United States Supreme Court
Posted in Jurisprudence, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public | 2 Comments »
Posted Monday, May 10th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
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Very interesting oped piece in today’s New York Times by its token conservative columnist Russ Douthat, Red Family, Blue Family. It uncannily describes what I observe on the other side of my desk talking to husbands, wives and parents about their domestic problems. When Douthat writes, “Today, couples with college and (especially) graduate degrees tend to [...]
Tags: Child Custody, Divorce, Marriage, New York Times, Red Family. Blue Family, Russ Douthat
Posted in Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public | No Comments »
Posted Thursday, March 18th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Humor?, Law and Culture, Miscellaneous, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
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Last week I hosted an extern from Bryn Mawr College who was interested in a career in family law. Facebook messaging her mother [a physician at Harvard married to a lawyer who also works for Harvard] this evening to thank her for a lovely gift sent in appreciation, she [the mother] mentioned: “She [the daughter] [...]
Tags: Gregory Forman, New York Times
Posted in Humor?, Law and Culture, Miscellaneous, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public | No Comments »
Posted Sunday, February 28th, 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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Sigmund Freud spent much of his career seeking an answer to the question “Was will das Weib?” (translation “What does a woman want?”). As a husband of twenty years, with two daughters, and as an attorney watching my clients struggle with this same question, I tend to enjoy contemplating and reading on the topic. Often [...]
Tags: New York Times, Popular Culture, Sex
Posted in Divorce and Marriage, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public | 4 Comments »
