The client whose child is uniquely attractive to pedophiles
Posted Sunday, July 4th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
I and other attorneys I know are now having cases in which one parent complains about the other parent posting photographs of the child to
Why isn’t corporal punishment considered domestic abuse?
Posted Saturday, June 26th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
Yesterday, while bantering with a DSS attorney I really like during a lull in a mediation I was conducting, she mentioned that she used corporal
The link between animal cruelty and domestic violence
Posted Tuesday, June 15th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Jurisprudence, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public, Protection from Domestic Abuse, South Carolina Appellate Decisions
When I was in my late teens my best friend was a brilliant, iconoclastic, Catholic, conservative, whose parents has escaped Communist Poland and lived in
Have real estate prices really bottomed out?
Posted Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Equitable Distribution/Property Division, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
Practicing family law actually provides some, imprecise, insights into the state of the economy. For example, there have been periods the past two years when
How would Obamacare critics respond to this family?
Posted Tuesday, May 25th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Child Custody, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
I received a call from a woman yesterday wanting to know the process of turning over custody of her son to her parents. Typically when
More thoughts on the election of judges
Posted Sunday, May 23rd, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Jurisprudence, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
Shortly after the South Carolina Supreme Court rejected Judge Segars-Andrews’ appeal seeking to overturn the decision of the Judicial Merit Selection Commission that she was
Posted Sunday, May 23rd, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Department of Social Services/Child Abuse and Neglect, Law and Culture, Of Interest to General Public, South Carolina Specific
The first in a series on Child Protective Services in South Carolina was published in today’s Charleston Post & Courier: State of Abuse. This initial
Posted Monday, May 10th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
Very interesting oped piece in today’s New York Times by its token conservative columnist Russ Douthat, Red Family, Blue Family. It uncannily describes what I observe
When your divorce lawyer’s results leave you vaguely unsatisfied
Posted Thursday, April 15th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Divorce and Marriage, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
Found this on a recent vacation at a Voodoo shop in New Orleans. Over the years I have had more than one divorcing client who would
Why shouldn’t lawyers have sunny dispositions?
Posted Thursday, March 18th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Humor?, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
Last week I hosted an extern from Bryn Mawr College who was interested in a career in family law. Facebook messaging her mother [a physician
