How to draft a family court final order that will get sustained on appeal
Posted Monday, July 12th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Continuing Legal Education, Litigation Strategy, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys
Pursuant to South Carolina Rule of Family Court 26 (a & b): An order or judgment pursuant to an adjudication in a domestic relations case
Why I love my scanner and Adobe Acrobat
Posted Saturday, July 10th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Miscellaneous, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys
Starting about 2003, I would occasionally hear lawyers lecture on “the paperless office.” While I consider myself on the leading edge of technological savvy for
Mr. & Mrs. Smith meet Mr. & Mrs. Forman
Posted Friday, July 9th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
One of the two grand ironic jests in the movie “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” is that this bored suburban couple–who drip utter contempt for each
Why family court attorneys should know how to do appeals
Posted Tuesday, July 6th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Litigation Strategy, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys
There are approximately a half dozen family law attorneys in the Charleston, South Carolina area whom I consider extremely underrated. Typically their hourly rate
The client whose child is uniquely attractive to pedophiles
Posted Sunday, July 4th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
I and other attorneys I know are now having cases in which one parent complains about the other parent posting photographs of the child to
How does a judge know evidence is relevant without (generally) resorting to hearsay?
Posted Tuesday, June 29th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Jurisprudence, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys
While responding to a comment on my blog “Why isn’t corporal punishment considered domestic abuse?,” I began thinking about how one might “know” a fact
Why isn’t corporal punishment considered domestic abuse?
Posted Saturday, June 26th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
Yesterday, while bantering with a DSS attorney I really like during a lull in a mediation I was conducting, she mentioned that she used corporal
Posted Saturday, June 26th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Litigation Strategy, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys
Since family court proceedings are bench trials a family law attorney’s task is to convince a judge, not a jury. Judges who feel that the
Posted Thursday, June 17th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Attorney's Fees, Child Custody, Child Support, Contempt/Enforcement of Orders, Jurisdiction, Litigation Strategy, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys
In the first year of law school everyone takes Civil Procedure, where we learn about in rem jurisdiction, quasi in rem jurisdiction and in personam
The link between animal cruelty and domestic violence
Posted Tuesday, June 15th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Jurisprudence, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public, Protection from Domestic Abuse, South Carolina Appellate Decisions
When I was in my late teens my best friend was a brilliant, iconoclastic, Catholic, conservative, whose parents has escaped Communist Poland and lived in
