Making the defendant testify in the plaintiff’s case-in-chief
Posted Saturday, February 12th, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Litigation Strategy, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Specific
I have never understood the general preference of litigants and attorneys to be the plaintiff in family court proceedings. “You get to go first,” is
The men don’t know but the little girls understand[1] (or, I took my nine year old daughter to a rave and neither of us ended up regretting it)
Posted Friday, February 11th, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Book, Film or Music Reviews, Miscellaneous, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
A desire to participate in communal ecstatic experiences would appear to be an innate part of human existence. Almost every culture in every time has
Collecting child (or spousal) support from actual dead deadbeats
Posted Thursday, February 10th, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Child Support, Litigation Strategy, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Specific
Due to recent changes in the law, it has become much easier to collect back child support from a deceased deadbeat’s estate. Here’s how to
Concerns over incorrect findings in family court sexual abuse allegations
Posted Saturday, February 5th, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Child Custody, Jurisprudence, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Of Interest to General Public
Perhaps because I more typically represent parents than children in family court, I have long been concerned with the risks of incorrect findings that a
The Great American Novel–21st Century Edition
Posted Saturday, February 5th, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Child Custody, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
I frequently observe that the Great American Novel is being written daily in our family courts. Too bad we lack the patience to hear it,
Posted Friday, February 4th, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Child Custody, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
I actually read my favorite sex advice columnist, Dan Savage of Savage Love, out of professional interest: many of my divorce and custody clients have
Attorney discipline and the social media bugaboo
Posted Thursday, February 3rd, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Rules of Professional (Lawyer) Conduct
I greatly admire the South Carolina Office of Disciplinary Counsel (ODC) but I wish someone would take them to task for their constant fear mongering
Idle thoughts while preparing to try a custody case
Posted Tuesday, February 1st, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Miscellaneous, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
Wasting a moment surfing the web while preparing yesterday morning for my first custody trial in a few years, I gravitated to this poem by
Thomas F. McDow IV’s “Standard” Visitation Schedule
Posted Saturday, January 29th, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Visitation
If you attended yesterday’s guardian ad litem training you were privileged to see Thomas F. McDow, IV, present on visitation scheduled. The first part of
The folly of a court-ordered “right of first refusal”
Posted Saturday, January 29th, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public, Visitation
The “right of first refusal”–the right to watch one’s children when the other parent would otherwise hire a sitter–is one of those concepts that sounds
