Thomas F. McDow IV’s “Standard” Visitation Schedule

Posted Saturday, January 29th, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Visitation

If you attended yesterday’s guardian ad litem training you were privileged to see Thomas F. McDow, IV, present on visitation scheduled.  The first part of

The folly of a court-ordered “right of first refusal”

Posted Saturday, January 29th, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public, Visitation

The “right of first refusal”–the right to watch one’s children when the other parent would otherwise hire a sitter–is one of those concepts that sounds

Playing the jerk to encourage dispute resolution

Posted Saturday, January 22nd, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Guardians Ad Litem, Litigation Strategy, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys

Sometimes a guardian ad litem can assist resolution of a custody dispute by doing things that initially make the parents unhappy.  This won’t render the

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

SCDSS v. Polite pits pro se against the bureaucracy in a philosophical argument about the nature of justice

Posted Saturday, January 22nd, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Child Support, Jurisprudence, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Of Interest to General Public, South Carolina Appellate Decisions

An aphorism first year law students are told is “bad facts make bad law.”  The January 19, 2011 Court of Appeals opinion in SCDSS v.

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,

Provision for adjustment of child support using a “Shared Parenting Formula” [Schedule C]

Posted Tuesday, January 18th, 2011 by Barry Knobel
Filed under Child Support, Litigation Strategy, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Specific

From Guest Blogger, the Honorable Barry W. Knobel I've been involved in a number of mediations in which we were working to settle a child support

One of these women can’t be right

Posted Sunday, January 16th, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public

Let’s all give it up for an Ivy League law professor intent on ruining any fun that parenting might entail In 1998 a then-relatively unknown

More Second Amendment remedies?

Posted Sunday, January 16th, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Humor?, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public

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Second Amendment Remedies?

Posted Sunday, January 16th, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Humor?, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public

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