216 months

July 29, 2009

It is 216 months from the time a child is born until the time the child turns eighteen.  Under South Carolina law the family court

Small small victory

July 29, 2009

An appeal I handled for a local colleague, Douglas Barker, resulted in a published opinion today (July 29, 2009) from the Court of Appeals in

Mediation training and certification

July 28, 2009

I just completed the five-day, 40-hour Family Court Mediation Training offered by the South Carolina bar and led by Mary Lowndes Bryan and C. Cotton

The pitfalls of cursory standard interrogatory responses

July 28, 2009

The Court of Appeals’ decision to affirm the family court’s award of custody to the father in its July 28, 2009 opinion in Divine v.

Minimum contacts personal jurisdiction analysis not applicable to contested multi-state adoption action

July 13, 2009

The July 13, 2009 Court of Appeals decision in Brookshire v. Blackwell, 384 S.C. 333, 682 S.E.2d 295 (Ct.App. 2009) clarifies personal and subject matter jurisdiction analysis as

Misguided child support decision from South Carolina’s Supreme Court

July 7, 2009

N.B. The holding of Floyd v. Morgan that it took a higher burden of proof to modify support agreement was subsequently overruled in the case of  Lewis v. Lewis,

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