Does South Carolina Rule of Civil Procedure 6(d) violate due process?
November 13, 2012
I recently defended a motion in which the timing of the submitted affidavits has me considering whether South Carolina Rule of Civil Procedure 6(d) violates due
What makes a good request for admission?
November 13, 2012
Other than requests for admissions on the authenticity of documents–which can be issued in unlimited numbers--South Carolina Rule of Civil Procedure 36(c) limits a party
“Irresponsible procreation” as a defense of DOMA
October 21, 2012
On October 18, 2012, in 2-1 decision in the case of Windsor v. United States, 699 F. 3d 169 (2nd. Cir. 2012), the United States Court
Should there be a cause of action for paternity fraud?
October 19, 2012
A colleague of mine, T. Ryan Phillips, emailed me an October 1, 2012 Tennessee Supreme Court opinion in the case of Hodge v. Craig, 382 S.W.3d
What proof is needed to obtain a physical cruelty divorce?
October 18, 2012
Physical cruelty is one of South Carolina’s four fault divorce grounds. Physical cruelty is “actual personal violence, or such a course of physical treatment as
October 13, 2012
The rare occasions when I am required to wade into the morass of the federal Stored Wire and Electronic Communications and Transactional Records Access Act
What’s so important about financial declarations?
October 12, 2012
Financial declarations are often the most important piece of evidence in any family court case. Filling them out and executing them in a cavalier manner
Impeaching a guardian ad litem who’s gone (too) rogue
October 6, 2012
Twenty years experience shows that there’s some validity to Robert Rosen’s jaundiced view of guardians ad litem in private custody cases, best expressed by the
