Court of Appeals reconsiders its decision and reinstates no fault divorce

Posted Monday, August 4th, 2014 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Divorce and Marriage, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific

N.B., on October 1, 2014, the Court of Appeals modified this modified opinion: Third time's a charm? When I blogged on the May 14, 2014

Court of Appeals finds adultery by both spouses and changes ground for divorce

Posted Thursday, May 15th, 2014 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Divorce and Marriage, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific

N.B., on August 1, 2014 the Court of Appeals refiled its opinion and simply affirmed the family court’s no-fault ground for divorce: Court of Appeals reconsiders

Why file for separate maintenance when one doesn’t have grounds for divorce?

Posted Thursday, April 24th, 2014 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Divorce and Marriage, Litigation Strategy, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Specific

Separate maintenance is the action one files with the family court when one is no longer living with one’s spouse but one doesn’t yet have

Should there be a uniform waiting period for a no-fault divorce?

Posted Saturday, March 8th, 2014 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Divorce and Marriage, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public

I rarely blog on proposed family law legislation.  Often legislation fizzles to nothing: in my twenty years of practice bills to abolish common law marriage

South Carolina Supreme Court refuses to adopt the “putative spouse” doctrine

Posted Wednesday, August 28th, 2013 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Divorce and Marriage, Of Interest to General Public, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific

In the August 28, 2013 opinion of Hill v. Bell, 405 S.C. 423, 747 S.E.2d 791 (2013), the South Carolina Supreme Court refused to adopt the “putative

Sue the cuckolder elsewhere

Posted Wednesday, August 7th, 2013 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Divorce and Marriage, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific

Cheated-upon spouses occasionally inquire whether they can sue the other man (or woman) for breaking up their marriage.  In South Carolina the answer is no:

Changing family formation and the practice of family law

Posted Friday, August 2nd, 2013 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Divorce and Marriage, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public

The past twenty years have seen rapid demographic changes in family court clientele.  I am seeing fewer divorces among the professional/managerial classes and seeing more

United States Supreme Court on the left side of history in two rulings on gay marriage

Posted Thursday, June 27th, 2013 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Divorce and Marriage, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public, United States Supreme Court Decisions

To the surprise of no one who has been paying attention, the June 26, 2013 United States Supreme Court opinions in the cases of United

Revenge of (and against) the bluenoses

Posted Friday, March 8th, 2013 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Divorce and Marriage, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public

For almost 20 years I’ve seen many of my family court clients gets slammed for unbiblical sexual behavior.  Initially it was the obvious–adultery.  But in

What becomes of a transmuted waterfront lot?

Posted Wednesday, February 20th, 2013 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Divorce and Marriage, Equitable Distribution/Property Division, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific

In my almost four years of blogging about every reported South Carolina appellate decision from family court and over fifteen years of handling family law

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