Supreme Court sets procedures for family court attorney fee awards
Posted Wednesday, December 3rd, 2014 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Attorney's Fees, Family Court Procedure, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific
The December 3, 2014 South Carolina Supreme Court opinion in Buist v. Buist, 410 S.C. 569, 766 S.E.2d 381 (2014), sets forth procedures to be used
Posted Sunday, November 23rd, 2014 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Divorce and Marriage, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
When, on October 6, 2014, in Rainey v. Bostic, 135 S.Ct. 286 (2014), the United States Supreme Court denied Virginia’s petition for certiorari in Bostic v.
Litigating child custody does not, by itself, create personal jurisdiction for child support
Posted Sunday, November 23rd, 2014 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Child Custody, Jurisdiction, Litigation Strategy, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys
Due to an increasingly mobile society, child custody litigation often moves to different states over a child’s minority. When both parents and the child no
On the wrong side of history again
Posted Friday, October 10th, 2014 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Divorce and Marriage, Of Interest to General Public, South Carolina Specific
Bowing to the inevitable, North Carolina has authorized same sex marriage, leaving South Carolina the last remaining state of the Fourth Circuit to bar such
We could have been more progressive than West Virginia…but no!
Posted Friday, October 10th, 2014 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Divorce and Marriage, Of Interest to General Public, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific
Yesterday, October 9, 2014, in an order from State ex rel. Wilson v. Condon, 410 S.C. 331, 764 S.E.2d 247 (2014), the South Carolina Supreme Court issued
South Carolina likely to be compelled to allow same sex marriage
Posted Monday, October 6th, 2014 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Divorce and Marriage, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Of Interest to General Public, South Carolina Specific, United States Supreme Court Decisions
Today the United States Supreme Court decided to let stand a Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals decision finding Virginia’s ban on same sex marriage unconstitutional.
The Benefits of Co-Mediation in Family Court
Posted Thursday, October 2nd, 2014 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Continuing Legal Education, Mediation/Alternative Dispute Resolution, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys
Karen Klickstein-Forman and I spoke today for the Mediation and Meeting Center of Charleston on The Benefits of Co-Mediation in Family Court. Karen drafted the
Posted Wednesday, October 1st, 2014 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Audience:, Divorce and Marriage, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific
On October 1, 2014, and for a second time, the South Carolina Court of Appeals has issued a revised published opinion in the case of
Posted Monday, September 29th, 2014 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Adoption/Termination of Parental Rights, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific
Eight weeks after the Court of Appeals affirmed a family court finding that South Carolina’s adoption statute required strict compliance with statutory consent requirements in
Shameless plug for Co-Mediation CLE
Posted Monday, September 22nd, 2014 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Continuing Legal Education, Mediation/Alternative Dispute Resolution, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Specific
My better half, Karen Klickstein-Forman, and I will be presenting on The Benefits of Co-Mediation for Family Court as part of the Mediation and Meeting
