How to deal with the witness who, on cross-examination, loses the ability to answer questions
Posted Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Litigation Strategy, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys
One of the things I am enjoying about mentoring newly-licensed attorneys is the opportunity to share little tips on how to deal with common litigation
Posted Sunday, October 18th, 2009 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Miscellaneous, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys
Just this month, one of my local family law colleagues was placed on interim suspension by the South Carolina Supreme Court. Not only did this
Posted Sunday, October 18th, 2009 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
Rather than purchase a “starter home” (which I define as a modest first home one seeks to trade-up for as soon as one has moved
Religious hypocrisy is not “family values” hypocrisy
Posted Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
Though I am not very religiously observant I find it disturbing that our culture considers religious men (or women) who act less than virtuous to
Family law’s massive sociological experiment(s)
Posted Sunday, September 27th, 2009 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Child Custody, Jurisprudence, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
Last night, while driving to the birthday party of my friends’ son, I was speaking on the phone to one of my oldest and dearest
Posted Friday, September 25th, 2009 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Child Support, Jurisprudence, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
We live in a culture that increasingly confuses ethical obligations with legal ones. For example, I believe I am ethically obligated to help out those
Posted Friday, September 25th, 2009 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Child Custody, Jurisprudence, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
It does not take a cynic to note a high correlation between people becoming involved in custody cases and “finding religion.” So long as judges confuse
Maybe they shouldn’t hear voting rights cases?
Posted Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Jurisprudence, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public, South Carolina Appellate Decisions
The September 21, 2009 Supreme Court opinion in Financial Federal v. Brown, 384 S.C. 555, 683 S.E.2d 486 (2009) contains an anomaly: Justice Beatty’s “majority” opinion received
Orange juice and toast: Creating maximum damage from partial answers in depositions
Posted Monday, September 21st, 2009 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Litigation Strategy, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys
If I am deposing a hostile witness or opposing party, I often start with an innocuous line of questioning I call “orange juice and toast.”
Posted Friday, August 28th, 2009 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Child Custody, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
Obviously events have overtaken the content of this blog. I sometimes feel like this blog jinxed Tiger. The greater point that involving our children in