August 18, 2017
Parents come to my office wanting to litigate custody. Often they are not sure what it means but they know they want it. Terms like
Was there wisdom in the “tender years” doctrine
August 14, 2017
There is no doubt that the “tender years” doctrine–which favored granting mothers custody of young children–would not pass constitutional muster in the 21st century. Such
Two recent interesting unpublished family law opinions
August 10, 2017
I rarely blog about unpublished opinions because even when they are interesting, and even when they should have been published, they rarely do anything other
The legislative paternalism of South Carolina’s name change law
August 9, 2017
When my wife was a social worker at a local hospital she once acted as a case manager for a mother giving birth to twins.
August 8, 2017
Ever since DNA testing became sufficiently accurate to conclusively exclude paternity, there’s been a tension between the goals of establishing paternity with finality and with
Equal protection challenge to domestic abuse statute leaves law in chaos
August 8, 2017
N.B., as anticipated below, the Supreme Court subsequently modified its decision and revived the application of the domestic abuse statute to unmarried cohabitants. See South Carolina
Getting bossy with custody clients
July 1, 2017
I have a saying that custody cases are the rare litigation in which it is acceptable for an attorney to change the facts. While the
Answering discovery you first object to
June 30, 2017
A pet peeve of mine is attorneys who begin discovery responses with a list of boilerplate objections. Recently I received interrogatory answers from two separate
