What you think, what you know, and what you can prove
October 14, 2017
One goes into a hearing or trial trying to establish various facts that will hopefully lead the court to rule in the desired manner. However
Getting arbitration awards turned into court orders (or preventing it from happening)
October 5, 2017
Many of my colleagues are turning to arbitration to resolve family law disputes. Few seem aware that an arbitrator’s award does not automatically become a
Building better restraining orders
September 20, 2017
A few weeks ago I blogged about what I considered ill-conceived child custody restraining orders. These restraints criminalized behavior that, while not ideal, are hardly
Falling into the tiger pit of prior consistent statements
September 9, 2017
About a decade ago I represented a pre-teen girl in a DSS abuse and neglect case in which she alleged her stepfather had sexually abused
The myth of the ironclad prenuptial agreement
August 29, 2017
Intolerable Cruelty, a lesser Coen Brothers movie, follows the courtship of an over-slick, high-powered divorce lawyer and a man-eating gold-digger, as they take turns getting
Illiterate family court attorneys?
August 27, 2017
Whence came the South Carolina family court habit of pleading for procedural relief in initial pleadings? When I learned to draft pleadings in law school
South Carolina child custody restraining orders I really hate
August 26, 2017
By the same process that causes attorneys’ boilerplate to grow over time–they borrow “good” ideas from other attorneys but never weed out redundant or obsolete
Best methods for equalizing physical custody
August 23, 2017
There are some custody cases that will only settle if both parties get equal time with the child(ren). Thus a sizable subset of custody cases
