On the wrong side of history again
Posted Friday, October 10th, 2014 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Divorce and Marriage, Of Interest to General Public, South Carolina Specific
Bowing to the inevitable, North Carolina has authorized same sex marriage, leaving South Carolina the last remaining state of the Fourth Circuit to bar such
We could have been more progressive than West Virginia…but no!
Posted Friday, October 10th, 2014 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Divorce and Marriage, Of Interest to General Public, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific
Yesterday, October 9, 2014, in an order from State ex rel. Wilson v. Condon, 410 S.C. 331, 764 S.E.2d 247 (2014), the South Carolina Supreme Court issued
South Carolina likely to be compelled to allow same sex marriage
Posted Monday, October 6th, 2014 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Divorce and Marriage, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Of Interest to General Public, South Carolina Specific, United States Supreme Court Decisions
Today the United States Supreme Court decided to let stand a Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals decision finding Virginia’s ban on same sex marriage unconstitutional.
Posted Wednesday, October 1st, 2014 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Audience:, Divorce and Marriage, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific
On October 1, 2014, and for a second time, the South Carolina Court of Appeals has issued a revised published opinion in the case of
Court of Appeals reconsiders its decision and reinstates no fault divorce
Posted Monday, August 4th, 2014 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Divorce and Marriage, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific
N.B., on October 1, 2014, the Court of Appeals modified this modified opinion: Third time's a charm? When I blogged on the May 14, 2014
Court of Appeals finds adultery by both spouses and changes ground for divorce
Posted Thursday, May 15th, 2014 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Divorce and Marriage, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific
N.B., on August 1, 2014 the Court of Appeals refiled its opinion and simply affirmed the family court’s no-fault ground for divorce: Court of Appeals reconsiders
Why file for separate maintenance when one doesn’t have grounds for divorce?
Posted Thursday, April 24th, 2014 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Divorce and Marriage, Litigation Strategy, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Specific
Separate maintenance is the action one files with the family court when one is no longer living with one’s spouse but one doesn’t yet have
Should there be a uniform waiting period for a no-fault divorce?
Posted Saturday, March 8th, 2014 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Divorce and Marriage, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
I rarely blog on proposed family law legislation. Often legislation fizzles to nothing: in my twenty years of practice bills to abolish common law marriage
South Carolina Supreme Court refuses to adopt the “putative spouse” doctrine
Posted Wednesday, August 28th, 2013 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Divorce and Marriage, Of Interest to General Public, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific
In the August 28, 2013 opinion of Hill v. Bell, 405 S.C. 423, 747 S.E.2d 791 (2013), the South Carolina Supreme Court refused to adopt the “putative
Posted Wednesday, August 7th, 2013 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Divorce and Marriage, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific
Cheated-upon spouses occasionally inquire whether they can sue the other man (or woman) for breaking up their marriage. In South Carolina the answer is no:
