Court of Appeals reconsiders its decision and reinstates no fault divorce
August 4, 2014
N.B., on October 1, 2014, the Court of Appeals modified this modified opinion: Third time's a charm? When I blogged on the May 14, 2014
July 30, 2014
On July 30, 2014 the South Carolina Court of Appeals published the previously unpublished opinion in the case of Katzburg v. Katzburg, 410 S.C. 184, 764
After eight years South Carolina finally updates its child support guidelines
July 15, 2014
On July 1, 2014 South Carolina’s new child support guidelines went into effect. The updated guidelines can be downloaded here. It is the first revision
Family court attorney gets public reprimand for inaccurate client affidavit
July 2, 2014
In what should put chills in my fellow family law attorneys’ spines, on July 2, 2014, a South Carolina family law attorney was publicly reprimanded
July 2, 2014
The July 2, 2014 Supreme Court opinion in Crossland v. Crossland, 408 S.C. 443, 759 S.E.2d 419 (2014), completely reverses the prior Court of Appeals opinion and
Unpublished Court of Appeals opinion undefinitively answers one of my family court questions
June 25, 2014
The June 25, 2014 unpublished Court of Appeals opinion in Katzburg v. Katzburg undefinitively answers one of my long-standing family court questions. I was retained
When should the family court award grandparent visitation?
June 17, 2014
There’s some dispute surrounding last week’s blog regarding the wholesale revision of South Carolina’s grandparent visitation statute. Some commenters contend that grandparents should never be awarded autonomous
South Carolina finally does grandparent visitation rights right
June 11, 2014
On June 9, 2014 Governor Nikki Haley signed into law House bill 4348 amending S.C. Code § 63-3-530 (A)(33), commonly known as the grandparent visitation
