What They Don’t Teach Law Students: Lawyering
November 20, 2011
Interesting article in today's New York Times, What They Don’t Teach Law Students: Lawyering, describing what’s wrong with law school methodology and how law students graduate lacking
November 19, 2011
Did an uncontested fault divorce yesterday in which the pro se defendant failed to appear. To prove the defendant’s habitual intoxication required testimony and evidence
November 18, 2011
I opened my law practice exactly eighteen years ago today. Unlike many of the young attorneys I admire, such as Jenny Moser, T. Ryan Phillips or
Does a short marriage justify the award of rehabilitative alimony rather than permanent alimony?
November 17, 2011
Most family law attorneys and divorcing parties seem to believe a short marriage suggests an award of rehabilitative rather than permanent alimony. I’m not so
Unpublished opinion (doesn’t) make(s) new law on application of Schedule C guidelines
November 16, 2011
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
One hundred things I don’t know about South Carolina family law
November 14, 2011
This blog is inspired by myriad important family law issues that current South Carolina case law and statute don’t adequately answer. None of these questions
November 11, 2011
From a purely pragmatic viewpoint a “successful” life for a sexually reproducing creature is merely having more than two offspring survive to reproductive age. From
Roesler attempts to clarify family court default
November 11, 2011
I’ve often considered writing a blog simply listing “100 things I don’t know about family law.” The concept is that after eighteen years practicing family
