Maybe we’re stretching the definition of adultery a bit too far?
September 23, 2010
I married a few years before I moved to South Carolina or began practicing family law. When I married I thought I had a workable
September 22, 2010
Note: this decision was later reversed by the South Carolina Supreme Court. See, Supreme Court grants termination of parental rights, finding mother’s failure to support
September 16, 2010
South Carolina law allows spouses to obtain a divorce when they “have lived separate and apart without cohabitation for a period of one year.” S.C.
Seeking paternity testing and joint custody
September 15, 2010
While nothing in the law prohibits it explicitly, I’ve never understood how attorneys can counsel their male clients to demand DNA paternity testing, especially for
I thought I was “taking one for the team”
September 15, 2010
For a family law attorney, having sexual relations with a client’s spouse is probably the height of (over)zealous advocacy (assuming that the spouse is the
Bill James, American exceptionalism, and a sense of perspective and vigilance
September 14, 2010
Sabermetric guru Bill James is one of my favorite writers and one of my fantasy dinner guests. Recently he’s turned his attention to the history
Court ordered sibling visitation in South Carolina
September 12, 2010
One of the more recent additions to the South Carolina jurisdictional code regarding children and family court, § 63-3-530, is subsection 44, which allows the
High income child support in South Carolina: extrapolation versus the “Three Pony Rule”
September 12, 2010
A belief undergirding support guidelines is that children are entitled to enjoy a lifestyle similar to their parents, but if daddy has an entourage does
