Idle thoughts while preparing to try a custody case
February 1, 2011
Wasting a moment surfing the web while preparing yesterday morning for my first custody trial in a few years, I gravitated to this poem by
Thomas F. McDow IV’s “Standard” Visitation Schedule
January 29, 2011
If you attended yesterday’s guardian ad litem training you were privileged to see Thomas F. McDow, IV, present on visitation scheduled. The first part of
The folly of a court-ordered “right of first refusal”
January 29, 2011
The “right of first refusal”–the right to watch one’s children when the other parent would otherwise hire a sitter–is one of those concepts that sounds
Playing the jerk to encourage dispute resolution
January 22, 2011
Sometimes a guardian ad litem can assist resolution of a custody dispute by doing things that initially make the parents unhappy. This won’t render the
Andrew Michael Myers is one husband who definitely needed a prenup
January 22, 2011
In the history of South Carolina husbands who wish they had a prenup, I bet there are few with more justification for this feeling than
January 22, 2011
An aphorism first year law students are told is “bad facts make bad law.” The January 19, 2011 Court of Appeals opinion in SCDSS v.
Very happy wife; Very unhappy girlfriend
January 22, 2011
I wonder how Pamela Buck feels about her boyfriend now that they jointly owe his ex-wife $262,000. That was the holding in the January 19,
Provision for adjustment of child support using a “Shared Parenting Formula” [Schedule C]
January 18, 2011
From Guest Blogger, the Honorable Barry W. Knobel I've been involved in a number of mediations in which we were working to settle a child support
