Presiding over the decline in the legal profession
Posted Tuesday, February 5th, 2013 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Of Interest to General Public
Between my work as a volunteer attorney mentor, being asked by a Philippine attorney working on a book about legal career paths to describe mine,
Posted Tuesday, January 8th, 2013 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public, Paternity
A couple weeks ago I received a phone call that is not very unusual. An anxious mother-to-be had questions about custody. Of particular concern was how
Perhaps he has a 2,000 mile long penis?[1]
Posted Friday, November 30th, 2012 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Divorce and Marriage, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Of Interest to General Public
A question I am frequently and increasingly being asked by my colleagues is whether modern uses of technology to engage in sexual banter can constitute
Should there be a cause of action for paternity fraud?
Posted Friday, October 19th, 2012 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Jurisprudence, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Of Interest to General Public, Paternity
A colleague of mine, T. Ryan Phillips, emailed me an October 1, 2012 Tennessee Supreme Court opinion in the case of Hodge v. Craig, 382 S.W.3d
The feminization of family law
Posted Saturday, August 25th, 2012 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Law and Culture, Mediation/Alternative Dispute Resolution, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
Two generations ago there were few woman lawyers. The early career paths of our first female Supreme Court Justices, Sandra Day O’Connor (Stanford 1952) and
The New York Times and Family Law
Posted Sunday, July 29th, 2012 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Child Custody, Law and Culture, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Of Interest to General Public
The amount and quality of the journalism coming from the New York Times that touches on issues related to family law is–literally–remarkable. I could easily
The limitations of textualist construction in statutory interpretation
Posted Friday, July 20th, 2012 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Jurisprudence, Law and Culture, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Of Interest to General Public
Based on a mostly enthusiastic review in the New York Times by Stanley Fish, I purchased “Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts,” by (Supreme
How many parents can (should) a child have?
Posted Saturday, July 14th, 2012 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Adoption/Termination of Parental Rights, Jurisprudence, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
My family spent last evening with South Carolina adoption guru James Fletcher Thompson. James regaled us with stories of the latest trends in assisted reproduction
Posted Saturday, June 16th, 2012 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Of Interest to General Public
I have successfully represented and have great sympathy for women who are subject to domestic abuse from their spouses, former spouses, or former lovers. No
The current legal status of homosexual relationships
Posted Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Divorce and Marriage, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
In preparation for last Friday’s interview on WCBD I created an extensive outline of topics that might come up for discussion. In that five minute
