Supreme Court authorizes use of SCRCP 60(b)(5) to right obvious injustice
May 11, 2011
The 2006 Court of Appeals opinion in Simmons v. Simmons, 370 S.C. 109, 634 S.E.2d 1 (Ct. App. 2006) voided a provision in the parties’ 1990
Supreme Court engages in scholarly debates on standard of appellate review of family court orders
May 11, 2011
The May 9, 2011 opinion in Lewis v. Lewis, 392 S.C. 381, 709 S.E.2d 650 (2011), finds the South Carolina Supreme Court engaging in a scholarly
“Shotgunning” motions to compel discovery
May 6, 2011
While the rules of civil procedure don’t create a distinction, there are really two types of motions to compel discovery. The first type of motion
In 3-2 decision, Supreme Court takes narrow view of unwed father’s parental rights
May 5, 2011
The creation of parental rights and responsibilities for unwed fathers are hardly reciprocal. The state, the mother, or the child’s guardian can come after an
After Webb v. Sowell is any post eighteenth birthday child support constitutional?
May 4, 2011
In 2010, the South Carolina Supreme Court decision in Webb v. Sowell, 387 S.C. 328, 692 S.E.2d 543 (2010) found that South Carolina’s interpretation of
God gave us children so that death wouldn’t be so disappointing?
May 3, 2011
Walking through the Charleston market today I spotted a t-shirt for sale that read “God gave us children so that death wouldn’t be so disappointing.”
We appear to have an answer on what constitutes a narcotic
April 30, 2011
A few months ago I blogged about the common misconception that South Carolina has a ground for divorce for drug abuse when it really has
Attorneys acting too clever in assisting clients to repudiate an agreement
April 30, 2011
Recently, and for only the second time in my career, an opposing party attempted to repudiate a family court agreement that he or she had
