One hundred things I don’t know about South Carolina family law
Posted Monday, November 14th, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Alimony/Spousal Support, Attorney's Fees, Child Custody, Child Support, Contempt/Enforcement of Orders, Department of Social Services/Child Abuse and Neglect, Divorce and Marriage, Equitable Distribution/Property Division, Family Court Procedure, Jurisprudence, Mediation/Alternative Dispute Resolution, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Of Interest to General Public, Paternity, South Carolina Specific
This blog is inspired by myriad important family law issues that current South Carolina case law and statute don’t adequately answer. None of these questions
Overnight non-marital romantic companion restraints after Lawrence v. Texas
Posted Saturday, October 29th, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Child Custody, Jurisprudence, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Of Interest to General Public, South Carolina Specific
South Carolina family court judges routinely issue restraints against exposing children to a parent’s non-marital romantic companions overnight. When concerned about appearing to be moral
Posted Tuesday, September 20th, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Divorce and Marriage, Jurisprudence, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Of Interest to General Public, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific
In what is, for me, one of the most highly anticipated decisions on this year’s docket, the South Carolina Supreme Court decided on September 19,
Should separation be required for a separate maintenance action?
Posted Sunday, August 21st, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Divorce and Marriage, Jurisprudence, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Of Interest to General Public, South Carolina Specific
In April 2011, the South Carolina Supreme Court heard oral argument in the case of Eileen Frances Theresa Busto Theisen v. Clifford Richard Theisen. According
Posted Wednesday, July 27th, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Jurisprudence, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
Fyodor Dostoevsky said “The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.” What do articles like this excellent Glenn Smith
Ending the alimony guessing game
Posted Monday, July 4th, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Alimony/Spousal Support, Jurisprudence, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
An editorial in today’s New York Times, Ending the alimony guessing game, by Alexandra Harwin, a 2011 Yale Law School graduate, highlights New York State’s
Can inability to remedy a child’s morbid obesity be considered child abuse or neglect?
Posted Sunday, June 26th, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Department of Social Services/Child Abuse and Neglect, Jurisprudence, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Of Interest to General Public
Until recently I had been representing the family of a child whose morbid obesity led to repeated Department of Social Services interventions. His medical doctors
Indignance over representing indigent costs South Carolina attorney
Posted Tuesday, June 21st, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Attorney's Fees, Jurisprudence, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Specific
The June 21, 2011 South Carolina Supreme Court opinion in Ex Parte Brown 393 S.C. 214, 711 S.E.2d 899 (2011), finally establishes “that the Takings Clause of
Posted Monday, June 20th, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Alimony/Spousal Support, Child Support, Contempt/Enforcement of Orders, Jurisprudence, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, United States Supreme Court Decisions
The June 20, 2011 United States Supreme Court opinion in Turner v. Rogers, 131 S.Ct. 2507 (2011), will radically alter the way the South Carolina Family Court
Posted Thursday, June 2nd, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Child Custody, Jurisprudence, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific
Reed v. Pieper, 393 S.C. 424, 713 S.E.2d 309 (Ct. App. 2011), is the second of two June 1, 2011 Court of Appeals opinions to demonstrate
