If you want peace, prepare for war
Posted Sunday, March 19th, 2017 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Attorney-Client Relations, Litigation Strategy, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys
Clients often ask me, if the goal is to settle the case, why I ask them to gather substantial information or why I issue discovery
Posted Wednesday, March 15th, 2017 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 known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we
Posted Tuesday, March 14th, 2017 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Divorce and Marriage, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
I was 9,930 days old when I married Karen Anne Klickstein on December 30, 1989. As of March 8, 2017, I had been married 9,930 days–half
Representing witnesses of current family court clients
Posted Sunday, March 5th, 2017 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Attorney-Client Relations, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Rules of Professional (Lawyer) Conduct
A few times every year a witness in a current family court case will ask me to represent him or her in a family court
Best practices in responding to requests for production
Posted Friday, February 17th, 2017 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Family Court Procedure, Litigation Strategy, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys
I spend a lot of time struggling to get opposing attorneys to fully respond to requests for production. Often it’s hard to tell if the
Little reason to attack the guardian at trial
Posted Sunday, January 15th, 2017 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Child Custody, Guardians Ad Litem, Litigation Strategy, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys
Working on materials for an upcoming lecture on attorney/guardian interactions, I realized that it had been years since I last felt compelled to “attack” the
Let’s Make Better Mistakes Tomorrow
Posted Friday, January 6th, 2017 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Attorney-Client Relations, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants
Recently, walking past an apartment in Amsterdam, I observed the following postcard-sized calling card for a “life coach” and broke out laughing: Attorneys, especially family law
Is empathy really useful for a family law attorney?
Posted Thursday, January 5th, 2017 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Attorney-Client Relations, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys
A recent New York Times ROOM for DEBATE discussed Does Empathy Guide or Hinder Moral Action? The anti-empathy debater defined it as “the capacity to
Is the lack of a set notice requirement in the UCCJEA a feature or a bug?
Posted Tuesday, December 13th, 2016 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Child Custody, Family Court Procedure, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys
In 2008 South Carolina went from the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act (UCCJA) to the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act (UCCJEA). The updated
Locking the barn doors after the horse has escaped
Posted Sunday, November 27th, 2016 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Attorney-Client Relations, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants
There are a half dozen critical moments in each family court case when having an experienced attorney is critical: motions for temporary relief; contempt actions;
