Posts Tagged ‘Unpublished Opinions’
Posted Wednesday, November 21st, 2012 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Attorney's Fees, Contempt/Enforcement of Orders, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific
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Ex parte: Belinda Davis-Branch. In re: Larry Solomon v. Betty Jean Solomon was the South Carolina Supreme Court’s September 2012 “Case of the Month.” Had the Supreme Court affirmed the family court’s ruling–which I was almost certain it wouldn’t–it might have revolutionized family law attorney fee collection practice in South Carolina and made it much [...]
Tags: Attorney's Fees, Contempt Enforcement Rule to Show Cause, South Carolina Supreme Court, Unpublished Opinions
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Posted Thursday, March 15th, 2012 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Adoption/Termination of Parental Rights, Child Custody, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific
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I have a long-held intellectual fascination with South Carolina’s sibling visitation statute, S.C. Code § 63-3-530(A)(44), so much so that I wrote a blog with the partial intent of trolling for potential sibling visitation clients. And now, a decade after this code section was enacted, our appellate courts finally discuss its application…in an unpublished opinion, [...]
Tags: Adoption, Child Custody, Sibling Visitation, South Carolina Court of Appeals, Unpublished Opinions
Posted in Adoption/Termination of Parental Rights, Child Custody, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific | 1 Comment »
Posted Thursday, February 2nd, 2012 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Alimony/Spousal Support, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions
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I was eagerly awaiting the Court of Appeals decision in Allen-Hines v. Hines because I was hoping it would answer the question of whether a short marriage alone was sufficient to award rehabilitative alimony rather than permanent periodic alimony. On August 29, 1988, the Court of Appeals affirmed an award of one year rehabilitative alimony [...]
Tags: Alimony/Spousal Support, Rehabilitative Alimony, Robert Rosen, South Carolina Court of Appeals, Unpublished Opinions
Posted in Alimony/Spousal Support, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions | No Comments »
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
Posted in Child Support, Jurisprudence, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific | No Comments »
Posted Thursday, August 25th, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Contempt/Enforcement of Orders, Litigation Strategy, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Specific
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Friend and colleague Mary Jane (M.J.) Goodwin suggested I blog on the propriety of citing unpublished appellate opinions as legal authority in other cases. Are attorneys really doing that? M.J. indicates they are, for example, citing State v. Hercheck to get DUI charges tossed. She’d love to cite SCDSS v. Rene in prosecuting a termination [...]
Tags: Contempt Enforcement Rule to Show Cause, Litigation Strategy, Mary Jane Goodwin, South Carolina Appellate Court Rules, Unpublished Opinions
Posted in Contempt/Enforcement of Orders, Litigation Strategy, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Specific | 7 Comments »
Posted Saturday, March 26th, 2011 by Barry Knobel
Filed under Family Court Procedure, Mediation/Alternative Dispute Resolution, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific
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From Guest Blogger, the Honorable Barry W. Knobel The South Carolina Court of Appeals filed what I consider to be an important unpublished family court opinion which, most probably, should have been published, in that it could have provided precedential guidance for family court mediators and attorneys participating in mediation. [On a side note, an excellent family [...]
Tags: Barry W. Knobel, Mediation/Alternative Dispute Resolution, Post-Trial Motions, South Carolina Court of Appeals, Thomas F. McDow, Unpublished Opinions
Posted in Family Court Procedure, Mediation/Alternative Dispute Resolution, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific | 1 Comment »
Posted Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Child Custody, Jurisprudence, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Of Interest to General Public, South Carolina Specific
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I have been a past critic of the South Carolina Court of Appeals’ failure to publish opinions that do not meet the criteria of S.C. Code Ann. § 18-9-280 for leaving opinions unpublished. Sometimes I read an unpublished opinion that, to my thinking, clearly doesn’t meet that criteria and the only reason I can figure [...]
Tags: Child Custody, Jurisprudence, South Carolina Court of Appeals, Unpublished Opinions
Posted in Child Custody, Jurisprudence, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Of Interest to General Public, South Carolina Specific | 8 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 »
