Family law CLE on Handling your first…

February 23, 2011

Natalie Bluestein and I have decided to organize and moderate a continuing legal education program aimed at recently licensed attorneys who practice in family court.

He got what he wanted but lost what he had

February 23, 2011

Little Richard threatened to title his yet-unwritten autobiography, “He got what he wanted but lost what he had,” after his 1962 single of the same

Hit the crack pipe, not the bong?

February 17, 2011

At a family law lecture yesterday, I came to the realization that most South Carolina family law attorneys believe there is a ground for divorce

Ode to optimism

February 13, 2011

I had the pleasure yesterday of attending the wedding of one of my legal colleagues, Allen Mastantuno, and his new bride, Blair O’Briant.  I’ve gotten

Making the defendant testify in the plaintiff’s case-in-chief

February 12, 2011

I have never understood the general preference of litigants and attorneys to be the plaintiff in family court proceedings.  “You get to go first,” is

The men don’t know but the little girls understand[1] (or, I took my nine year old daughter to a rave and neither of us ended up regretting it)

February 11, 2011

A desire to participate in communal ecstatic experiences would appear to be an innate part of human existence.  Almost every culture in every time has

Collecting child (or spousal) support from actual dead deadbeats

February 10, 2011

Due to recent changes in the law, it has become much easier to collect back child support from a deceased deadbeat’s estate.  Here’s how to

Concerns over incorrect findings in family court sexual abuse allegations

February 5, 2011

Perhaps because I more typically represent parents than children in family court, I have long been concerned with the risks of incorrect findings that a

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