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

Risking one’s law license

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

No skin in the game

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

Legal obligations versus ethical obligations: Why should parents have to support their adult children?

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

Finding my religion

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.”

Tiger Woods’ dad

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

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