Court of Appeals notes it’s unlikely parents agree to their habitually intoxicated spouse having custody of their children

Posted Friday, May 28th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Alimony/Spousal Support, Divorce and Marriage, Equitable Distribution/Property Division, Litigation Strategy, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific

A couple of interesting things are happening in yesterday’s Court of Appeals opinion in Bodkin v. Bodkin, 388 S.C. 203, 694 S.E.2d 230 (2010), which, with one

When your divorce lawyer’s results leave you vaguely unsatisfied

Posted Thursday, April 15th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Divorce and Marriage, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public

Found this on a recent vacation at a Voodoo shop in New Orleans.  Over the years I have had more than one divorcing client who would

Court of Appeals clarifies what is proof of physical cruelty and what isn’t proof of adultery

Posted Wednesday, April 14th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Alimony/Spousal Support, Divorce and Marriage, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific

I have had a number of cases in which a spouse (in my experience, always the husband) has destroyed the home phone in the midst

The culture’s misconceptions about condonation

Posted Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Alimony/Spousal Support, Divorce and Marriage, Jurisprudence, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Specific

Condonation (a legal term meaning “conditional forgiveness”) is a powerful defense to a fault divorce in South Carolina.  If proven, condonation revives an alimony claim

Will the rise of “swinging” in the Lowcountry lead to a revival of the connivance defense to South Carolina’s adultery bar to alimony?

Posted Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Alimony/Spousal Support, Divorce and Marriage, Litigation Strategy, Of Interest to General Public, South Carolina Specific

Professor Roy T. Stuckey’s excellent guidebook, Marital Litigation in South Carolina: Substantive Law (3rd. Ed), has little use for the defense of connivance, concluding its

What do Women Want?

Posted Sunday, February 28th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Divorce and Marriage, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public

Sigmund Freud spent much of his career seeking an answer to the question “Was will das Weib?”  (translation “What does a woman want?”).  As a

Why the delay between the Sanfords’ divorce hearing and the divorce?

Posted Saturday, February 27th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Divorce and Marriage, Law and Culture, Of Interest to General Public, South Carolina Specific

Under S.C. Code Ann. § 20-3-80, titled Required delays before reference and final decree;  exceptions, South Carolina law sets specific waiting periods before the court

Less adultery = more divorce?

Posted Saturday, January 30th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Divorce and Marriage, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public

While many in our culture believe contemporary folks wallow in sin, merely from the fact that women in our culture expect greater respect than they

Rules of engagement

Posted Friday, January 22nd, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Divorce and Marriage, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public

Sometimes I think I have potential as a marriage counselor if and when I hang up my law license.  Sixteen years of practicing family law

Financial Decisions to Make as You Divorce

Posted Saturday, November 14th, 2009 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Divorce and Marriage, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants

Article in yesterday’s New York Times.   Should be required reading/checklist for divorce clients:  Financial Decisions to Make as You Divorce

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