Court of Appeals opinion unwittingly exposes serious flaws in South Carolina’s Family Court Rules
July 26, 2021
The July 7, 2021, Court of Appeals opinion in Taylor v. Taylor, 863 S.E.2d 335, 434 S.C. 307 (Ct. App. 2021), unwittingly exposes serious flaws
July 8, 2021
I have little doubt that, if raised in the proper case, the ten-day notice requirement in South Carolina Family Court Rule 14(d) will be held
DSS safety plans don’t override custody/visitation orders
July 5, 2021
I typically don’t blog about unpublished opinions. Since they cannot be used as precedent, their holdings are unreliable guidance. Still, when the Court of Appeals
Are you seeking to modify or enforce that family court final order (or do both)?
October 10, 2020
In my eleven-plus years of doing this blog I’ve yet to write about the different procedures and goals in modifying versus enforcing a final order
Family court “emergencies” in the COVID-19 era
March 22, 2020
In a pair of March 18, 2020 orders, South Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice Donald W. Beatty cancelled all family court terms of court through
Visitation denial in the COVID-19 era
March 22, 2020
COVID-19 is the first airborne global pandemic to take place since the development of specialized family courts in the United States. Never before has mandated
“Force majeure” as a defense to family court contempt
March 19, 2020
Given the impact on the new coronavirus on South Carolina businesses, I’ve had more than one client ask me about paying court-ordered support obligations at
What are the potential remedies for notice-based contempt pleadings?
February 14, 2019
Late last month the family court issued a contempt petition against a client of mine in which the petition was a “notice” pleading, not a
