Court of Appeals affirms custody and relocation but reverses Mother’s rehabilitative alimony award
January 24, 2024
The Court of Appeals slightly modified its opinion on March 20, 2024 The January 24, 2024, Court of Appeals opinion in Gandy v. Gandy affirmed
The best time to defeat a relocation case is before it’s filed
April 8, 2017
In my 20+ years of family law practice, I’ve yet to see a relocation case in which the requested relocation was solely for the child’s
April 7, 2017
When custodial parents relocate, the non-custodial parent almost always suffers. Typically they lose the frequent contact with the minor child that helps sustain most parent-child
The difficulties relocating with children merely because the stepparent is moving
December 16, 2015
Custodial parents rarely consider whether their spouses are prone to work related relocations when they decide to (re)marry. They simply assume that if their spouse
Shared custody parents should date locally
September 8, 2012
One of the more heart wrenching consults I commonly encounter is when a primary caretaker mother who agreed to shared physical custody has fallen in
Court of Appeals’ opinion applies Latimer factors to initial custody determination
August 24, 2011
Today’s South Carolina Court of Appeals opinion in McComb v. Conard, 394 S.C. 416, 715 S.E.2d 662 (Ct. App. 2011), approved the family court’s use of
New Frequently Asked Question on Relocation
April 14, 2010
It’s very basic but any attorney or parent seeking a simple explanation of South Carolina law on custodial parent relocation is directed to this new
Court of Appeals renders first published post-Latimer decision on relocation
June 12, 2009
Our [South Carolina] Court of Appeals rarely prohibited a parent from relocating with a child (at least in the opinions it published) when our Supreme
