Should being the victim of a third-party’s Ponzi scheme entitle one to reopen a marital property settlement?

Posted Tuesday, May 31st, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Equitable Distribution/Property Division, Jurisprudence, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys

The May 30, 2011 New York Times reports a story about a husband, a partner at a powerful New York City law firm, attempting to

Supreme Court authorizes use of SCRCP 60(b)(5) to right obvious injustice

Posted Wednesday, May 11th, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Alimony/Spousal Support, Equitable Distribution/Property Division, Family Court Procedure, Jurisprudence, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific

The 2006 Court of Appeals opinion in Simmons v. Simmons, 370 S.C. 109, 634 S.E.2d 1 (Ct. App. 2006) voided a provision in the parties’ 1990

Supreme Court engages in scholarly debates on standard of appellate review of family court orders

Posted Wednesday, May 11th, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Equitable Distribution/Property Division, Jurisprudence, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific

The May 9, 2011 opinion in Lewis v. Lewis, 392 S.C. 381, 709 S.E.2d 650 (2011), finds the South Carolina Supreme Court engaging in a scholarly

Court of Appeals clarifies remedies to sell marital home in face of one party’s intransigence

Posted Thursday, March 31st, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Equitable Distribution/Property Division, Family Court Procedure, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific

Part of the family court’s goals in affecting an equitable distribution of separated spouses’ marital property is severing all entangling legal relationships and placing the

Court of Appeals reverses family court finding that Husband’s three pre-marital rental homes were transmuted into marital property

Posted Wednesday, March 16th, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Equitable Distribution/Property Division, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific

The March 16, 2011 Court of Appeals opinion in Smallwood v. Smallwood, 392 S.C. 574, 709 S.E.2d 543 (Ct.App.,2011), reversed the family court’s finding that Husband’s pre-marital

Maybe we’re taking the deference to the family court judge’s credibility determinations too far?

Posted Friday, February 25th, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Alimony/Spousal Support, Attorney's Fees, Equitable Distribution/Property Division, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific

The February 23, 2011 Court of Appeals opinion in Reiss v. Reiss, 392 S.C. 198, 708 S.E.2d 799 (Ct.App 2011) makes me question whether the appellate

Andrew Michael Myers is one husband who definitely needed a prenup

Posted Saturday, January 22nd, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Alimony/Spousal Support, Attorney's Fees, Divorce and Marriage, Equitable Distribution/Property Division, Jurisprudence, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Of Interest to General Public, South Carolina Appellate Decisions

In the history of South Carolina husbands who wish they had a prenup, I bet there are few with more justification for this feeling than

Very happy wife; Very unhappy girlfriend

Posted Saturday, January 22nd, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Equitable Distribution/Property Division, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific

I wonder how Pamela Buck feels about her boyfriend now that they jointly owe his ex-wife $262,000.  That was the holding in the January 19,

Court of Appeals decision in Mosley addresses child support and equitable distribution issues

Posted Thursday, November 11th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Child Support, Equitable Distribution/Property Division, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Appellate Decisions, South Carolina Specific

The November 10, 2010 Court of Appeals opinion in Mosley v. Mosley, 390 S.C. 524, 702 S.E.2d 253 (Ct. App. 2010) reversed the family court’s determinations

In equitable distribution, not all dollars are created equal

Posted Saturday, October 9th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Equitable Distribution/Property Division, Litigation Strategy, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys

Should you retain me to handle your divorce and should equitable distribution of your assets and debts be an issue, at some point I will

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