Supreme Court remands for recalculation of child support
Posted Thursday, November 7th, 2024 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Miscellaneous
On November 6, 2024, the South Carolina Supreme Court opinion in the case of Gandy v. Gandy, remedies what would appear to be an obvious
Praising the other parent in a custody trial
Posted Saturday, February 11th, 2023 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Child Custody, Litigation Strategy, Miscellaneous, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys
The past few years I begun a practice of having my custody clients develop a few solid minutes of testimony praising the other parent. Such
Write up in Charleston Legal Access
Posted Tuesday, August 30th, 2022 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Miscellaneous, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
Charleston Legal Access did a nice little write up of me today. As noted in the write up, I believe there is a clear failure
Lecture material for Why Family Court Attorneys should do Appeals
Posted Friday, May 6th, 2022 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Continuing Legal Education, Miscellaneous, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Specific
Below is my lecture for the May 6, 2022, Continuing Legal Education program Why Family Court Attorneys should do Appeals: To begin I’d like to
DSS safety plans don’t override custody/visitation orders
Posted Monday, July 5th, 2021 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Contempt/Enforcement of Orders, Miscellaneous, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Specific, Visitation
I typically don’t blog about unpublished opinions. Since they cannot be used as precedent, their holdings are unreliable guidance. Still, when the Court of Appeals
Subsequently discovered property provisions in equitable distribution agreements
Posted Thursday, June 3rd, 2021 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Equitable Distribution/Property Division, Litigation Strategy, Miscellaneous, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys
A provision I occasionally see in equitable distribution agreements addresses subsequently discovered property. These provisions state that if one spouse discovers the other spouse failed
Posted Friday, February 12th, 2021 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Law and Culture, Miscellaneous, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Of Interest to General Public
A few weeks ago I had my first court hearing on the issue of whether a non-custodial parent should be forced to take one child
Before she was the Notorious RBG
Posted Thursday, September 24th, 2020 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Miscellaneous, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
I try to keep my politics out of my legal blog and, in the week since United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death,
Have your family law blog on my blogroll
Posted Wednesday, May 20th, 2020 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Miscellaneous, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys
In the next month or two I will be refreshing my website's layout for the first time since 2009. Anyone with a family law blog
Posted Thursday, May 7th, 2020 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Miscellaneous, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Of Interest to General Public, South Carolina Specific
Whether it took 26 years of practicing family law for me to become super or 26 years for Super Lawyers to recognize this, I am