Mediation training and certification
Posted Tuesday, July 28th, 2009 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Mediation/Alternative Dispute Resolution, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Specific
I just completed the five-day, 40-hour Family Court Mediation Training offered by the South Carolina bar and led by Mary Lowndes Bryan and C. Cotton
The pitfalls of cursory standard interrogatory responses
Posted Tuesday, July 28th, 2009 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Child Custody, Litigation Strategy, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions
The Court of Appeals’ decision to affirm the family court’s award of custody to the father in its July 28, 2009 opinion in Divine v.
Posted Monday, July 13th, 2009 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Adoption/Termination of Parental Rights, Child Custody, Jurisdiction, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific
The July 13, 2009 Court of Appeals decision in Brookshire v. Blackwell, 384 S.C. 333, 682 S.E.2d 295 (Ct.App. 2009) clarifies personal and subject matter jurisdiction analysis as
Misguided child support decision from South Carolina’s Supreme Court
Posted Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Child Support, Jurisprudence, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific
N.B. The holding of Floyd v. Morgan that it took a higher burden of proof to modify support agreement was subsequently overruled in the case of Lewis v. Lewis,
Transmutation in an economic downturn
Posted Thursday, June 18th, 2009 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Equitable Distribution/Property Division, Law and Culture, Litigation Strategy, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific
In the time before housing prices collapsed it was easy to get many separating homeowners’ property divided. They would either sell their home and divide
Yet another reason for supporting spouses to offer lump sum alimony
Posted Tuesday, June 16th, 2009 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Alimony/Spousal Support, Litigation Strategy, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific
Permanent periodic alimony is one debt that may never end until the payor dies. Today’s Court of Appeal’s decision in Fiddie v. Fiddie, 384 S.C. 120, 681
Supreme Court decision reestablishes deference to family court judges’ credibility findings
Posted Monday, June 15th, 2009 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Child Custody, Jurisprudence, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific
I have been eagerly awaiting today’s [June 15, 2009] South Carolina Supreme Court decision in McCrosson v. Tanenbaum, 383 S.C. 150, 679 S.E.2d 172 (2009). Not only
A legal education can be expensive
Posted Saturday, June 13th, 2009 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Attorney's Fees, Contempt/Enforcement of Orders, Jurisprudence, Litigation Strategy, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific
I love contempt. See Enforcement (or Defending Enforcement) of Family Court Orders. Folks tend to forget (if they ever realized) that court orders aren’t simply
Court of Appeals renders first published post-Latimer decision on relocation
Posted Friday, June 12th, 2009 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Child Custody, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific
Our [South Carolina] Court of Appeals rarely prohibited a parent from relocating with a child (at least in the opinions it published) when our Supreme
Court of Appeals provides guidance on alimony reduction in an economic downturn
Posted Tuesday, May 5th, 2009 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Alimony/Spousal Support, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific
As I have previously noted in Lump Sum Alimony, it is hard to offer clients guidance as to potential alimony reduction when they incur a
