Court of Appeals affirms award of stepmother custody and grandparent visitation
March 17, 2022
In the March 16, 2022 opinion in Jacobs v. Zarcone, 436 S.C. 170, 871 S.E.2d 211 (Ct.App. 2022), the Court of Appeals affirms an award
De Facto Custodian rights are more valuable than Grandparent Rights
November 24, 2021
Given the phone calls I receive from prospective clients, it appears that many more folks are aware of the concept of grandparent rights than they
The interaction of the De Facto Custodian statute and the Moore factors
June 13, 2019
There are numerous recurring issues in South Carolina family law that ultimately will need to be resolved by our appellate courts. One of the more
Two recent interesting unpublished family law opinions
August 10, 2017
I rarely blog about unpublished opinions because even when they are interesting, and even when they should have been published, they rarely do anything other
Does the De Facto Custodian statue limit or implicitly overrule Moore v. Moore?
February 3, 2017
Comments from attorneys and litigants who’ve made this argument are most welcome Moore v. Moore, 300 S.C. 75, 386 S.E.2d 456, 458 (1989) is the
