July 30, 2012
Today the South Carolina Supreme Court adopted amendments to the Rules of Professional Conduct to address the charging of advance fees by lawyers. Given recent
The New York Times and Family Law
July 29, 2012
The amount and quality of the journalism coming from the New York Times that touches on issues related to family law is–literally–remarkable. I could easily
South Carolina Supreme Court’s Suspension of Family Court Rule 24 for Title IV-D Cases
July 29, 2012
Two different family law attorneys have asked–nay demanded–that I blog about the July 19, 2012 South Carolina Supreme Court Administrative Order suspending application of South
Supreme Court applies Federal Indian Child Welfare Act to prevent adoption
July 27, 2012
The July 26, 2012 South Carolina Supreme Court opinion in Adoptive Couple v. Cherokee Nation, 398 S.C. 625, 731 S.E.2d 550 (2012), had been long anticipated. The story
The limitations of textualist construction in statutory interpretation
July 20, 2012
Based on a mostly enthusiastic review in the New York Times by Stanley Fish, I purchased “Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts,” by (Supreme
July 19, 2012
The past few years I have, on numerous occasions, met with a family court litigant who has made obvious attempts to alter his or her
July 19, 2012
I reviewed two files yesterday in which one party to a custody dispute was refusing to answer questions by invoking her 5th Amendment privilege against
