Archive for January, 2010
Posted Saturday, January 30th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Divorce and Marriage, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
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While many in our culture believe contemporary folks wallow in sin, merely from the fact that women in our culture expect greater respect than they might have expected fifty or one hundred years ago makes me believe that the amount of male infidelity is actually declining over time. The multiple and long-term affairs of Franklin […]
Tags: Adultery, Divorce, Jurisprudence, Morality, Popular Culture, Sex
Posted in Divorce and Marriage, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public | 7 Comments »
Posted Saturday, January 23rd, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Adoption/Termination of Parental Rights, Of Interest to General Public, Paternity, South Carolina Specific
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Beginning January 1, 2010, South Carolina implemented a Responsible Father Registry. S.C. Code Ann. § 63-9-820. This registry is designed to allow men who have potentially fathered a child to register as the child’s possible father. The purpose of the registry is to simplify notice requirements for termination of parental rights and adoptions proceedings. With […]
Tags: Adoption, Jurisprudence, Paternity, Popular Culture, Termination of Parental Rights
Posted in Adoption/Termination of Parental Rights, Of Interest to General Public, Paternity, South Carolina Specific | No Comments »
Posted Friday, January 22nd, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Divorce and Marriage, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
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Sometimes I think I have potential as a marriage counselor if and when I hang up my law license. Sixteen years of practicing family law and, if you’re paying attention, you begin to learn why marriages work and why they go bad. Typically they go bad not because one spouse or the other changed for […]
Tags: Gregory Forman, Marriage, Popular Culture
Posted in Divorce and Marriage, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public | No Comments »
Posted Friday, January 22nd, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Child Custody, Miscellaneous, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
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Today [January 22, 2010] I attended the funeral of Calvin Morris. Calvin would be on the short list of favorite clients. I first met Calvin when his disability attorney asked me to assist him. A family court judge had sentenced Calvin to jail for failing to pay his child support, which Calvin had fallen behind […]
Tags: Calvin Morris, Child Custody
Posted in Child Custody, Miscellaneous, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public | 5 Comments »
Posted Monday, January 11th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Alimony/Spousal Support, Attorney's Fees, Equitable Distribution/Property Division, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific
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Today’s Supreme Court opinion in Dickert v. Dickert, 387 S.C. 1, 691 S.E.2d 448 (2010), resolved interesting issues of equitable distribution and alimony. However on the alimony issue greater explanation of its rationale would have been useful. Further the court failed to explain the factors approving the attorney fee award. Dickert involved the dissolution of a […]
Tags: Alimony/Spousal Support, Attorney's Fees, Equitable Distribution/Property Division, South Carolina Supreme Court
Posted in Alimony/Spousal Support, Attorney's Fees, Equitable Distribution/Property Division, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific | No Comments »
Posted Tuesday, January 5th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Equitable Distribution/Property Division, South Carolina Appellate Decisions
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The January 4, 2010 Supreme Court opinion in Dawkins v. Dawkins, 386 S.C. 169, 687 S.E.2d 52 (2010) was explicitly intended to clarify for the bench and bar “the apparent trend at the appellate level to find an abuse of discretion when an equitable division award in a long-term marriage deviates from an equal division, and […]
Tags: Divorce, Equitable Distribution/Property Division, South Carolina Supreme Court, Transmutation
Posted in Equitable Distribution/Property Division, South Carolina Appellate Decisions | 2 Comments »
Posted Tuesday, January 5th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Child Support, Contempt/Enforcement of Orders, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific
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The December 30, 2009 Court of Appeals opinion in SCDSS v. Johnson, 386 S.C. 426, 688 S.E.2d 588 (2009), clarifies the service requirements for notification of attempted registration of a foreign order under the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act (UIFSA) and clarifies when the court can issue a bench warrant for an alleged failure to pay support. […]
Tags: Child Support, Contempt Enforcement Rule to Show Cause, Department of Social Services, John Magera, South Carolina Court of Appeals, UIFSA, Uniform Interstate Family Support Act
Posted in Child Support, Contempt/Enforcement of Orders, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific | No Comments »
