Tips for drafting a response to your first grievance
March 30, 2012
An attorney I am informally mentoring just received her first letter from the Office of Disciplinary Counsel (OCD). As everyone in family law knows, grievances
March 29, 2012
Quite often in my practice I will meet with a parent, typically a mother, who has been under an order of supervised visitation for a
Taking 30(b)(6) depositions for family court cases
March 22, 2012
Since few family court cases involve corporate or government agencies as witnesses or parties, family law attorneys rarely consider the benefits of noticing a deposition
March 22, 2012
Though it might be legally relevant, I try to avoid having my clients focus on the bad behavior of their spouses that pre-date the marriage
Mischief potential in restraints against disposing of marital property
March 19, 2012
Many family court attorneys routinely seek a restraining order at the beginning of a marital dissolution case against “disposing of, hiding, encumbering, or in any
March 16, 2012
In the March 16, 2012 opinion in Anthony H. v. Matthew G.,397 S.C. 447, 725 S.E.2d 132 (Ct. App. 2012) the Court of Appeals held
March 15, 2012
I have a long-held intellectual fascination with South Carolina’s sibling visitation statute, S.C. Code § 63-3-530(A)(44), so much so that I wrote a blog with
When you are your own attorney
March 13, 2012
A quote I often hear ascribed to the incomparable Gedney M. Howe, III (though I have never actually heard him say it) is: When you
