Posted Thursday, March 4th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Alimony/Spousal Support, Law and Culture, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Of Interest to General Public, South Carolina Specific
Trying (unsuccessfully) to locate a case referenced by Professor Roy T. Stuckey dealing with connivance from the days before South Carolina allowed divorce (1949-50), I
Posted Sunday, February 28th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Divorce and Marriage, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
Sigmund Freud spent much of his career seeking an answer to the question “Was will das Weib?” (translation “What does a woman want?”). As a
Why the delay between the Sanfords’ divorce hearing and the divorce?
Posted Saturday, February 27th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Divorce and Marriage, Law and Culture, Of Interest to General Public, South Carolina Specific
Under S.C. Code Ann. § 20-3-80, titled Required delays before reference and final decree; exceptions, South Carolina law sets specific waiting periods before the court
In South Carolina, juveniles can legally consume alcohol in their parents’ home
Posted Thursday, February 25th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Law and Culture, Of Interest to General Public, South Carolina Specific
Few of the family law attorneys I know are aware of S.C. Code Ann. § 63-19-2460, which states: No provision of law prohibiting the use
Posted Thursday, February 18th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Child Custody, Law and Culture, Mediation/Alternative Dispute Resolution, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
Interesting op-ed piece by Ruth Bettelheim, a marriage and family therapist, in today’s New York Times criticizing the way child custody cases are handled forty years after
Should fathers of children born out-of-wedlock have rights and obligations towards those children?
Posted Thursday, February 11th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Adoption/Termination of Parental Rights, Child Custody, Child Support, Jurisprudence, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public, Paternity
The goal of this blog is not to offend but merely to establish the following three points about the current system in which fathers of
Individual versus collective responsibilities for raising children
Posted Friday, February 5th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
Much of our “culture war” debates are tangential offshoots of the meta issue of whether caring for a child is the collective responsibility of the
Posted Saturday, January 30th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Divorce and Marriage, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
While many in our culture believe contemporary folks wallow in sin, merely from the fact that women in our culture expect greater respect than they
Holiday visitation: loving your child more than you hate the other parent
Posted Tuesday, December 15th, 2009 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Of Interest to General Public, Visitation
Last year, shortly before imposing a criminal contempt sentence on a mother who had repeatedly and blithely interfered with my client’s visitation, the judge asked
Posted Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
As someone who has previously noted my admiration for Tiger Woods, I cannot help but be saddened by his recent “troubles.” What I hear from
