Posts Tagged ‘South Carolina Court of Appeals’
Posted Saturday, January 7th, 2012 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Jurisprudence, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific
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Two of my frequent complaints are that South Carolina family law attorneys don’t appeal enough of the decisions they believe are unjust and that the South Carolina appellate courts don’t publish enough of their family court decisions. As a result of these two factors, the development of family law in South Carolina fails to [...]
Tags: Jurisprudence, South Carolina Court of Appeals, South Carolina Supreme Court
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Posted Tuesday, December 27th, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Equitable Division/Property Division, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific
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The December 21, 2011 Court of Appeals opinion in Sanders v. Sanders, 396 S.C. 410, 722 S.E.2d 15 (Ct. App. 2011), demonstrates the continuing confused jurisprudence regarding transmutation of non marital assets. It also highlights the problems that result when the trial court is provided insufficient information from the parties to make a complete decision. Sanders involved a [...]
Tags: Equitable Division/Property Division, South Carolina Court of Appeals
Posted in Equitable Division/Property Division, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific | 2 Comments »
Posted Friday, December 23rd, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Adoption/Termination of Parental Rights, Department of Social Services/Child Abuse and Neglect, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific
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In the December 16, 2011 opinion in SCDSS v. Mother and Father, 396 S.C. 390, 720 S.E.2d 920 (Ct. App. 2011), the Court of Appeals reversed a family court permanency planning order requiring the Department of Social Services (DSS) to bring a termination of parental rights (TPR) action against Mother and instead ordered the matter remanded for [...]
Tags: Child Abuse and Neglect, Department of Social Services, South Carolina Court of Appeals, Termination of Parental Rights
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Posted Friday, December 23rd, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Alimony/Spousal Support, Jurisprudence, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific
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In South Carolina, child support, child custody and permanent periodic alimony can all be modified upon a showing of “substantial change of circumstances.” However, there is an exception to this general principle: if the change of circumstances was anticipated at the time of the previous final order, then the change of circumstances is not a [...]
Tags: Alimony Modification, Jurisprudence, South Carolina Court of Appeals
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Posted Thursday, December 22nd, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Attorney's Fees, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific
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In the December 14, 2011 opinion in Lewin v. Lewin, 396 S.C. 349, 721 S.E.2d 1 (Ct. App. 2011), (in which I represented the losing appellant, though I was not his trial counsel), the Court of Appeals affirmed multiple challenges Father brought to the lower court’s award of $18,955 in fees and costs to Mother. Lewin represents an interesting [...]
Tags: Attorney's Fees, Credibility, South Carolina Court of Appeals
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Posted Monday, December 19th, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under 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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The first of the fifteen factors set forth in South Carolina Code Section 20-3-620 regarding the division of marital property is “the duration of the marriage together with the ages of the parties at the time of the marriage and at the time of the divorce or separate maintenance or other marital action between the [...]
Tags: Equitable Division/Property Division, South Carolina Court of Appeals
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Posted Wednesday, November 16th, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Child Support, Jurisprudence, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific
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Floyd v. Morgan, 383 S.C. 469 , 681 S.E.2d 570 (2009) is possibly the worst published family law opinion to come out of the Supreme Court since I started writing this blog in April 2009. Not only did it unduly heighten the burden to modify child custody agreements–a decision since rectified in Miles v. Miles, [...]
Tags: Child Support, Jurisprudence, South Carolina Court of Appeals, Unpublished Opinions
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Posted Friday, November 11th, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Family Court Procedure, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific
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I’ve often considered writing a blog simply listing “100 things I don’t know about family law.” The concept is that after eighteen years practicing family law–and I do mean “practice” because much of my free time is spent reading, thinking and writing about family law–there are still important issues in family law that I have [...]
Tags: Family Court Procedure, South Carolina Court of Appeals
Posted in Family Court Procedure, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific | 3 Comments »
