Tag: Child Custody

Gotta walk before you can run

March 29, 2012

Quite often in my practice I will meet with a parent, typically a mother, who has been under an order of supervised visitation for a

South Carolina appellate courts finally apply the sibling visitation statute (and of course it’s unpublished)

March 15, 2012

I have a long-held intellectual fascination with South Carolina’s sibling visitation statute, S.C. Code § 63-3-530(A)(44), so much so that I wrote a blog with

Caught in a circular firing squad

March 13, 2012

I have increasingly come to the conclusion that being a guardian ad litem in South Carolina for private custody cases is an impossible task if

Hold on pardner, where’s the fire?

March 1, 2012

One of the hardest tasks of family court client control is counseling clients to be patient when they want immediate results.  This task is rarely

Stupid (overly broad and vague) parental restraining orders

February 17, 2012

My one-man war against overly broad restraining orders continued this week, as I observe an accelerating trend towards guardians, litigants and judges wanting to micro-manage

Should a parent’s adultery be per se relevant to child custody?

January 31, 2012

I’m no social conservative but, contrary to many South Carolina family law attorneys and judges, I believe that a parent’s adultery is almost automatically relevant

In disputes between biological parents and third-parties, we don’t want decisions to be based on “the best interests of the child”

January 30, 2012

A review of the excellent news reporting from Allyson Bird at the Charleston Post and Courier, regarding the adoption case involving two year-old, Veronica, her

WTF does the restraint against exposing minor children to “age inappropriate entertainment” actually mean?

January 20, 2012

I sometimes think there is some hidden law titled, “The South Carolina Family Law Attorney Full Employment Act,” which requires family court judges to issue