Supreme Court approves permanent restraint against mother’s exposure of child to convicted sex-offender boyfriend

Posted Wednesday, June 20th, 2012 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Child Custody, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Of Interest to General Public, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific

In the June 20, 2012 decision of Argabright v. Argabright, 398 S.C. 176, 727 S.E.2d 748 (2012), the South Carolina Supreme Court affirmed a permanent restraint

For second consecutive week Court of Appeals reverses and remands family court order due to inadequate factual findings

Posted Wednesday, June 6th, 2012 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Attorney's Fees, Child Custody, Child Support, Equitable Distribution/Property Division, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific, Visitation

Last week, in Tillman v. Oakes, 398 S.C. 245, 728 S.E.2d 45 (Ct. App. 2012), the Court of Appeals reversed and remanded a family court custody

Court of Appeals reverses custody modification based on family court’s inadequate factual findings

Posted Wednesday, May 30th, 2012 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Child Custody, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific

In the May 30, 2012 opinion in Tillman v. Oakes, 398 S.C. 245, 728 S.E.2d 45 (Ct. App. 2012), the South Carolina Court of Appeals reversed

Should child custody be revisited every few years?

Posted Monday, May 21st, 2012 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Child Custody, Family Court Procedure, Jurisprudence, Mediation/Alternative Dispute Resolution, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys

There was a thoughtful Op-Ed piece in the May 20, 2012 New York Times titled “In Whose Best Interests?” by Ruth Bettelheim, a marriage and family

Gotta walk before you can run

Posted Thursday, March 29th, 2012 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Child Custody, Litigation Strategy, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Visitation

Quite often in my practice I will meet with a parent, typically a mother, who has been under an order of supervised visitation for a

South Carolina appellate courts finally apply the sibling visitation statute (and of course it’s unpublished)

Posted Thursday, March 15th, 2012 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Adoption/Termination of Parental Rights, Child Custody, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific

I have a long-held intellectual fascination with South Carolina’s sibling visitation statute, S.C. Code § 63-3-530(A)(44), so much so that I wrote a blog with

Caught in a circular firing squad

Posted Tuesday, March 13th, 2012 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Child Custody, Family Court Procedure, Guardians Ad Litem, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys

I have increasingly come to the conclusion that being a guardian ad litem in South Carolina for private custody cases is an impossible task if

A switch in justices revives previous South Carolina law on college support

Posted Wednesday, March 7th, 2012 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Audience:, Child Custody, Jurisprudence, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific

Less than two years ago, the South Carolina Supreme Court, in Webb v. Sowell, 387 S.C. 328, 692 S.E.2d 543 (2010), overruled Risinger v. Risinger,

Hold on pardner, where’s the fire?

Posted Thursday, March 1st, 2012 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Child Custody, Litigation Strategy, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Specific

One of the hardest tasks of family court client control is counseling clients to be patient when they want immediate results.  This task is rarely

Overnight paramour restraints and homosexual relationships

Posted Saturday, February 18th, 2012 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Child Custody, Divorce and Marriage, Jurisprudence, Law and Culture, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Of Interest to General Public, South Carolina Specific

A state that denies homosexuals the right to marry has no right to punish them for living together without being married. In 1967, the United

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