“Fuck around and find out” in family court
February 15, 2024
I try to avoid vulgarity on my website but the Gen-Z slang “fuck around and find out” is so evocative and applicable to many family
No one enjoys answering discovery—still don’t fight your attorney on responding to it
February 9, 2024
One of the least pleasant tasks in any litigation is responding to discovery. Little of what is produced in responding to discovery actually gets used
January 29, 2024
This is another blog inspired by last Friday’s guardian ad litem training. As I enter my fourth decade of practice and acknowledge that my legal
January 29, 2024
South Carolina’s annual guardian ad litem training, which took place last Friday, always inspires at least a few blogs. It did again this year. During
For the first time in a decade, South Carolina updates its child support guidelines
January 29, 2024
South Carolina updated its child support guidelines on January 15, 2024—for the first time since 2014. There are three main distinctions between the 2014 and
Court of Appeals affirms custody and relocation but reverses Mother’s rehabilitative alimony award
January 24, 2024
The Court of Appeals slightly modified its opinion on March 20, 2024 The January 24, 2024, Court of Appeals opinion in Gandy v. Gandy affirmed
Only nine published family law opinions in 2023 (and none from the Supreme Court)
January 16, 2024
Every year I do a table of published family law opinions from the prior year. 2023 was a slow year, but not the slowest year
Allegations and records determine outcomes
November 12, 2023
I suspect the concurrence new Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson authored in the case of Twitter, Inc. v. Taamneh, 143 S. Ct. 1206 (2023)
