I consider myself lucky to have seen P!nk for the second time last month in Charlotte, this time from the center of the VIP mosh pit. Since P!nk is such a dynamic, acrobatic performer, as well as an incredible singer, being in the midst of her show was overwhelming. But one reason I’ve been a [...]
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Zero tolerance idiocracy
It’s dress up Friday at my daughter’s magnet school, in which students can ditch uniforms and come as their favorite novel character. My daughter’s dressing as Katniss from “The Hunger Games.” While she was walking out the door with her crossbow and quiver of rubber arrows, I reminded my wife of the school district’s zero [...]
Protection from what?
A couple weeks ago I received a phone call that is not very unusual. An anxious mother-to-be had questions about custody. Of particular concern was how she should “protect” her child from the father-to-be, who also happened to be her live-in boyfriend. The obvious question–one I always ask in these situations–is why this child might need [...]
Perhaps he has a 2,000 mile long penis?[1]
A question I am frequently and increasingly being asked by my colleagues is whether modern uses of technology to engage in sexual banter can constitute adultery as a ground for divorce in South Carolina. Sexting, instant messaging, emailing, online role playing games and constant or lengthy phone calls (often assumed to be “phone sex”) have [...]
The New York Times and Family Law
The amount and quality of the journalism coming from the New York Times that touches on issues related to family law is–literally–remarkable. I could easily generate 100 blogs a year highlighting Times stories that implicate family law. Often this journalism identifies first-wave issues that are likely to go national, such as a recent article on [...]
How many parents can (should) a child have?
My family spent last evening with South Carolina adoption guru James Fletcher Thompson. James regaled us with stories of the latest trends in assisted reproduction technology. Evidently even South Carolina is starting to allow not just gay parents to adopt but is even allowing same sex couple adoption (meaning some children have two legal mothers [...]
Victims of themselves
I have successfully represented and have great sympathy for women who are subject to domestic abuse from their spouses, former spouses, or former lovers. No one should have to live in fear that an ex-lover will stalk, beat, even possibly kill them. Humans cannot function in a state of perpetual anxiety: stress hormones essentially consume [...]