I’m the attorney; not the babysitter

March 25, 2011

I had an opposing attorney call me this morning asking if my client’s plans had changed since yesterday.  When we confirmed her plans  the previous

Oral argument on April 7th: come see me crash and burn?

March 23, 2011

I’ve been handling appeals since I graduated law school, including drafting two appeal briefs in 1991 before being sworn in as a member of the

(Don’t) throw me in the briar patch

March 19, 2011

It’s a shame that Joel Chandler Harris’ Uncle Remus books are considered racist nowadays due to their trickster tales and use of plantation-era African American

Revealing or shielding a family court attorney’s itemized statement of time spent

March 19, 2011

An attorney’s itemized statement of time spent on a case can be a valuable piece of information for an opposing party and that party’s attorney.

Court of Appeals reverses family court finding that Husband’s three pre-marital rental homes were transmuted into marital property

March 16, 2011

The March 16, 2011 Court of Appeals opinion in Smallwood v. Smallwood, 392 S.C. 574, 709 S.E.2d 543 (Ct.App.,2011), reversed the family court’s finding that Husband’s pre-marital

South Carolina appellate courts continue to interpret cohabitation to terminate alimony narrowly in favor of supported spouses; failing to challenge fee affidavit fatal to claim that fee award of $126,797.30 was excessive

March 16, 2011

The March 16, 2011 Court of Appeals opinion in Biggins v. Burdette, 392 S.C. 241, 708 S.E.2d 237 (Ct.App. 2011), continues the trend of the South Carolina

Counseling a client to disobey a court order

March 11, 2011

I conducted a court-ordered mediation today in which one of the parties failed to show up.  This party’s counsel explained she had told her client

He had a dream: This wasn’t it

March 10, 2011

Martin Luther King had a dream “that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by

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