Dennis v. Dennis is an unpublished May 2002 opinion from the South Carolina Court of Appeals. I was retained after trial to represent Ms. Dennis, who, despite her disability, had only been awarded $700.00 a month in alimony and a bit more than half her attorney’s fees at trial. During the litigation her husband had continued a lavish lifestyle while she had to cut back greatly on hers. The family court improperly accepted her husband’s temporarily lower income as his true income in setting (and reducing from the initial hearing) her alimony.
On appeal the Court of Appeals not only restored the alimony to her previous $1,000.00 a month figure but actually increased it to $1,500.00 a month. It further awarded her all of her attorney’s fees.
De Facto Custodian rights are more valuable than Grandparent Rights
Given the phone calls I receive from prospective clients, it appears that many more folks are aware of the concept of grandparent rights
The November 10, 2021, Supreme Court opinion in Swicegood v. Thompson remedies the obvious error in the Court of Appeals decision in Swicegood
Pitfalls in cooperating with DSS child abuse investigations
Parents routinely contact me when they are in the midst of a DSS investigation into their potential abuse or neglect of their child.
