August 28, 2012
South Carolina Code § 20-3-610 indicates that the marital estate is created “at the time marital litigation is filed or commenced...” Yet S.C. Code §
Dumpster diving the family court files
August 26, 2012
When I first started practicing family law an early mentor, William J. Hamilton, III, told me that, “the evidence for a thousand divorces lies in
Equalizing incomes doesn’t always equalize lifestyles
August 25, 2012
In setting alimony for really long marriages (30+ years) the family courts sometime try to equalize incomes. In cases in which both parties are retired
Fighting the wrong battle on transmutation
August 25, 2012
I attended a mediation training yesterday in which one of the exercises dealt with the issue of “transmutation,” the process by which non-marital property becomes
The feminization of family law
August 25, 2012
Two generations ago there were few woman lawyers. The early career paths of our first female Supreme Court Justices, Sandra Day O’Connor (Stanford 1952) and
Free CLE on “Financial Issues in Family Law”
August 25, 2012
On October 12, 2012 from 1:00 to 4:45 p.m. there will be a free three-hour CLE on “Financial Issues in Family Law” (Course # 126447) at
August 21, 2012
Sometime around 2007 I encountered a situation involving a marital home I not previously dealt with: negative equity. Prior to 2007 unhappily married folks often
Supreme Court clarifies South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure 3 and 15
August 16, 2012
The August 15, 2012 Supreme Court opinion in Mims v. Babcock Center, 399 S.C. 341, 732 S.E.2d 395 (2012), clarifies issues of civil procedure that have occasionally
