Supreme Court approves parent’s taping of child’s telephone conversation
July 13, 2012
Though not a family court appeal, the July 11, 2012 Supreme Court opinion in State v. Whitner, 399 S.C. 547, 732 S.E.2d 861 (2012), has important application to
A new front in the battle of the sexes
July 8, 2012
A recent scientific breakthrough allows the paternity of an unborn child to be determined through a blood test of the mother as early as the
New Mediation and Meeting Center of Charleston website
July 2, 2012
The Mediation and Meeting Center of Charleston (MMCC), whose board I joined earlier this year, has a new and improved website. The updated website
July 1, 2012
I conducted a mediation last week in which, with quite a bit of more arm twisting of both parties, I suspect I might have been
A lawyer again for twenty-one days
June 29, 2012
Earlier this month a South Carolina attorney was reinstated to the practice of law after being suspended for six months. Exactly three weeks later he
Who does South Carolina House Bill 4614 really benefit?
June 21, 2012
Yesterday two different family law attorneys emailed me seeking my thoughts about the recently-enacted South Carolina House Bill 4614. Since most of the family court
June 20, 2012
In the June 20, 2012 decision of Argabright v. Argabright, 398 S.C. 176, 727 S.E.2d 748 (2012), the South Carolina Supreme Court affirmed a permanent restraint
