Posted Monday, January 14th, 2013 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Family Court Procedure, Jurisprudence, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Of Interest to General Public, South Carolina Specific
Ever since a local family court judge got defrocked for presiding in a case in which she had an alleged conflict, South Carolina family court
Does equitable distribution case law overvalue retirement accounts?
Posted Thursday, January 10th, 2013 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Equitable Distribution/Property Division, Jurisprudence, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Specific
Individual Retirement Accounts (IRA) and 401k account assets are not as valuable as an equivalent amount of cash. With some exceptions there is a 10%
How long would it take you to read 18 opinions?
Posted Thursday, January 3rd, 2013 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Jurisprudence, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific
If you read every 2012 published appeal of a South Carolina family court case you would be reading 18 opinions: five from the Supreme Court
“Irresponsible procreation” as a defense of DOMA
Posted Sunday, October 21st, 2012 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Divorce and Marriage, Jurisprudence, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
On October 18, 2012, in 2-1 decision in the case of Windsor v. United States, 699 F. 3d 169 (2nd. Cir. 2012), the United States Court
Should there be a cause of action for paternity fraud?
Posted Friday, October 19th, 2012 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Jurisprudence, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Of Interest to General Public, Paternity
A colleague of mine, T. Ryan Phillips, emailed me an October 1, 2012 Tennessee Supreme Court opinion in the case of Hodge v. Craig, 382 S.W.3d
Review of “Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts”
Posted Thursday, August 9th, 2012 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Book, Film or Music Reviews, Jurisprudence, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys
No matter one’s opinion of the jurisprudence United States Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, his recent book,“Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts” (co-authored with
The limitations of textualist construction in statutory interpretation
Posted Friday, July 20th, 2012 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Jurisprudence, Law and Culture, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Of Interest to General Public
Based on a mostly enthusiastic review in the New York Times by Stanley Fish, I purchased “Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts,” by (Supreme
How many parents can (should) a child have?
Posted Saturday, July 14th, 2012 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Adoption/Termination of Parental Rights, Jurisprudence, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
My family spent last evening with South Carolina adoption guru James Fletcher Thompson. James regaled us with stories of the latest trends in assisted reproduction
A new front in the battle of the sexes
Posted Sunday, July 8th, 2012 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Child Support, Jurisprudence, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public, Paternity
A recent scientific breakthrough allows the paternity of an unborn child to be determined through a blood test of the mother as early as the
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
