The Great American Novel–21st Century Edition
February 5, 2011
I frequently observe that the Great American Novel is being written daily in our family courts. Too bad we lack the patience to hear it,
February 4, 2011
I actually read my favorite sex advice columnist, Dan Savage of Savage Love, out of professional interest: many of my divorce and custody clients have
Attorney discipline and the social media bugaboo
February 3, 2011
I greatly admire the South Carolina Office of Disciplinary Counsel (ODC) but I wish someone would take them to task for their constant fear mongering
Idle thoughts while preparing to try a custody case
February 1, 2011
Wasting a moment surfing the web while preparing yesterday morning for my first custody trial in a few years, I gravitated to this poem by
Thomas F. McDow IV’s “Standard” Visitation Schedule
January 29, 2011
If you attended yesterday’s guardian ad litem training you were privileged to see Thomas F. McDow, IV, present on visitation scheduled. The first part of
The folly of a court-ordered “right of first refusal”
January 29, 2011
The “right of first refusal”–the right to watch one’s children when the other parent would otherwise hire a sitter–is one of those concepts that sounds
Playing the jerk to encourage dispute resolution
January 22, 2011
Sometimes a guardian ad litem can assist resolution of a custody dispute by doing things that initially make the parents unhappy. This won’t render the
Andrew Michael Myers is one husband who definitely needed a prenup
January 22, 2011
In the history of South Carolina husbands who wish they had a prenup, I bet there are few with more justification for this feeling than
