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I typically don’t blog about unpublished opinions.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

South Carolina child custody restraining orders I really hate

August 26, 2017

By the same process that causes attorneys’ boilerplate to grow over time–they borrow “good” ideas from other attorneys but never weed out redundant or obsolete

Who has the burden of proof on the willfulness element of contempt?

May 21, 2017

A few days ago I prosecuted a contempt action. The proof for one of the allegations of contempt was very document intensive and mathematical–reimbursement for

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