The myth of the ironclad prenuptial agreement
August 29, 2017
Intolerable Cruelty, a lesser Coen Brothers movie, follows the courtship of an over-slick, high-powered divorce lawyer and a man-eating gold-digger, as they take turns getting
Illiterate family court attorneys?
August 27, 2017
Whence came the South Carolina family court habit of pleading for procedural relief in initial pleadings? When I learned to draft pleadings in law school
South Carolina child custody restraining orders I really hate
August 26, 2017
By the same process that causes attorneys’ boilerplate to grow over time–they borrow “good” ideas from other attorneys but never weed out redundant or obsolete
Best methods for equalizing physical custody
August 23, 2017
There are some custody cases that will only settle if both parties get equal time with the child(ren). Thus a sizable subset of custody cases
August 18, 2017
Parents come to my office wanting to litigate custody. Often they are not sure what it means but they know they want it. Terms like
Was there wisdom in the “tender years” doctrine
August 14, 2017
There is no doubt that the “tender years” doctrine–which favored granting mothers custody of young children–would not pass constitutional muster in the 21st century. Such
Two recent interesting unpublished family law opinions
August 10, 2017
I rarely blog about unpublished opinions because even when they are interesting, and even when they should have been published, they rarely do anything other
The legislative paternalism of South Carolina’s name change law
August 9, 2017
When my wife was a social worker at a local hospital she once acted as a case manager for a mother giving birth to twins.
