That ship has sailed (or implicitly condoning past child abuse or neglect)
February 5, 2016
A decent subset of my custody and visitation cases have one parent raising abuse or neglect allegations that predate an agreement (whether a temporary consent
The problems in splitting children’s expenses based upon undefined “pro rata income shares”
January 8, 2016
I have recently encountered a number of court-approved child support agreements in which child-related expenses are divided upon undefined “pro rata [Latin for “in proportion”]
2015 may set record low in published family law opinions
January 5, 2016
2015 may set a record low in published South Carolina family law opinions. Counting a refiled opinion in Srivastava v. Srivastava, 411 S.C. 481, 769
The difficulties relocating with children merely because the stepparent is moving
December 16, 2015
Custodial parents rarely consider whether their spouses are prone to work related relocations when they decide to (re)marry. They simply assume that if their spouse
Desperation to settle makes favorable settlement more difficult
December 13, 2015
I am often confronted by clients wanting me to reach out, yet again, to a recalcitrant opposing counsel or party about settling their cases. Typically, when
An aggressive mediator is a hammer but not every case is a nail
December 12, 2015
The model of mediation we were all taught in the family court mediation training has the parties sitting together with the mediator in one room,
Playing Monopoly when no one agrees on the rules (or why I’m a Civil Procedure maven)
December 11, 2015
Any contest requires an agreement on the rules, in advance, to proceed properly. Many people have variations on Milton Bradley’s “official” Monopoly rules. When these
It just became a little easier (although still not very easy) to sue DSS in tort
December 6, 2015
There is a common complaint among attorneys who do appeals that they do not recognize the fact pattern described in their appellate decisions. The belief
