Court of Appeals affirms award of stepmother custody and grandparent visitation
March 17, 2022
In the March 16, 2022 opinion in Jacobs v. Zarcone, 436 S.C. 170, 871 S.E.2d 211 (Ct.App. 2022), the Court of Appeals affirms an award
Enterprise versus personal goodwill explained through local barbeque joints
March 10, 2022
The distinction between enterprise goodwill and personal goodwill confuses a number of family law attorneys. But any Charleston area attorney who loves barbeque will probably
March 10, 2022
The March 9, 2022, Court of Appeals opinion in Bostick v. Bostick, 436 S.C. 43, 872 S.E.2d 859 (Ct.App. 2022), reversed the family court’s determination
Court of Appeals’ Glinyanay opinion addresses numerous novel family law issues
February 23, 2022
The February 23, 2022, Court of Appeals opinion in Glinyanay v. Tobias, 436 S.C. 137, 871 S.E.2d 193 (Ct.App. 2022), addresses numerous novel legal issues
Parents who allow unfit co-parents to provide unsupervised care for their child(ren) are also unfit
February 14, 2022
But for the human capacity for self delusions, I would find the ability of parents to claim their co-parent was unfit while they allowed that
Anyone has standing to seek custody of a neglected or delinquent child
February 12, 2022
I thought it was well known that when a child’s caretakers are unfit literarily anyone has standing to seek custody. Yet when two lawyer friends
February 1, 2022
Because South Carolina’s De Facto Custodian statute and Grandparent Visitation statute both allow the family court to award visitation to non-parents, they are often viewed
It pays to be nice (especially in a custody case)
January 29, 2022
Early in my career, the standard procedure in contested custody cases was to throw as much mud at the other side as you could and
