The culture’s misconceptions about condonation
Posted Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Alimony/Spousal Support, Divorce and Marriage, Jurisprudence, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Specific
Condonation (a legal term meaning “conditional forgiveness”) is a powerful defense to a fault divorce in South Carolina. If proven, condonation revives an alimony claim
Posted Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Alimony/Spousal Support, Divorce and Marriage, Litigation Strategy, Of Interest to General Public, South Carolina Specific
Professor Roy T. Stuckey’s excellent guidebook, Marital Litigation in South Carolina: Substantive Law (3rd. Ed), has little use for the defense of connivance, concluding its
Posted Monday, March 1st, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Adoption/Termination of Parental Rights, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Specific
Today’s Supreme Court opinion in Doe v. Roe, 386 S.C. 624, 690 S.E.2d 573 (2010), reverses the Court of Appeals and affirms the Family Court’s termination
Posted Sunday, February 28th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Divorce and Marriage, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
Sigmund Freud spent much of his career seeking an answer to the question “Was will das Weib?” (translation “What does a woman want?”). As a
Why the delay between the Sanfords’ divorce hearing and the divorce?
Posted Saturday, February 27th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Divorce and Marriage, Law and Culture, Of Interest to General Public, South Carolina Specific
Under S.C. Code Ann. § 20-3-80, titled Required delays before reference and final decree; exceptions, South Carolina law sets specific waiting periods before the court
In South Carolina, juveniles can legally consume alcohol in their parents’ home
Posted Thursday, February 25th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Law and Culture, Of Interest to General Public, South Carolina Specific
Few of the family law attorneys I know are aware of S.C. Code Ann. § 63-19-2460, which states: No provision of law prohibiting the use
The perils of inaccurate (or no) financial declarations in family court
Posted Thursday, February 25th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Alimony/Spousal Support, Child Support, Family Court Procedure, Litigation Strategy, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Specific
For any family court trial involving alimony or attorney’s fees, and for most trials involving child support or support enforcement, an accurate financial declaration is
South Carolina’s alimony lottery
Posted Friday, February 19th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Alimony/Spousal Support, Jurisprudence, Of Interest to General Public, South Carolina Specific
I had a recent phone conference with a New Jersey attorney as we discussed the advantages of disadvantages of fighting an alimony case in South
Posted Thursday, February 18th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Child Custody, Law and Culture, Mediation/Alternative Dispute Resolution, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
Interesting op-ed piece by Ruth Bettelheim, a marriage and family therapist, in today’s New York Times criticizing the way child custody cases are handled forty years after
Grandparent child support responsibility when their minor children have children
Posted Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Child Custody, Jurisprudence, Of Interest to General Public, South Carolina Specific
A legal argument I have often made (never successfully) and would love to eventually appeal is whether a parent’s legal obligation to support his or
