When attacking the opposing party is counterproductive
March 7, 2011
Perhaps because the legal process involves the resolution of conflict, and because conflict requires parties to be in opposition, folks involved in litigation reflexively believe
Thomas F. McDow IV’s “Standard” Visitation Schedule
January 29, 2011
If you attended yesterday’s guardian ad litem training you were privileged to see Thomas F. McDow, IV, present on visitation scheduled. The first part of
The folly of a court-ordered “right of first refusal”
January 29, 2011
The “right of first refusal”–the right to watch one’s children when the other parent would otherwise hire a sitter–is one of those concepts that sounds
The unintended and ironic consequences of South Carolina’s new grandparent visitation statute
December 7, 2010
On June 9, 2014, this statute was changed, making it easier for grandparents to pursue court ordered visitation. I was never a big proponent of
Court ordered sibling visitation in South Carolina
September 12, 2010
One of the more recent additions to the South Carolina jurisdictional code regarding children and family court, § 63-3-530, is subsection 44, which allows the
Treating Unwed Daddies as Wallets
August 27, 2010
I had lunch yesterday with Charlie F.P. Segars-Andrews, who mentioned she had been contacted to do work with an agency, Responsible Committed Fatherhood Initiative, attempting to
Calling bullsh*t on custodial parents who let the children decide their visitation
August 4, 2010
When I first started practicing family law I would encounter a number of visitation enforcement hearings in which the custodial parent tried to excuse his
Applying Family Court Rule 27 to line jump the docket on visitation enforcement
June 15, 2010
I met with a father earlier this week for a consult. He mentioned that he had gone five months without seeing his teenage daughter and
