Tag: Alimony/Spousal Support

So that’s why (s)he left

August 10, 2011

Continuing today’s theme of gifts from benevolent domestic litigation deities is the issue of overly vitriolic affidavits for temporary hearings in marital dissolution cases. When

At least he got the laptop back

August 3, 2011

N.B., the Court of Appeals opinion in Pittman v. Pittman was subsequently refiled with a different analysis on the transmutation issue. See Rearranging the deck chairs Thomas

Court of Appeals holds ex-wife’s alimony claim possibly not time barred due to ex-husband’s violence and threats

July 20, 2011

In the July 20, 2011 decision in Ross v. Ross, 394 S.C. 261, 715 S.E.2d 359 (Ct. App. 2011), the Court of Appeals remanded the issue

Ending the alimony guessing game

July 4, 2011

An editorial in today’s New York Times, Ending the alimony guessing game, by Alexandra Harwin, a 2011 Yale Law School graduate, highlights New York State’s

Court of Appeals holds Rule 59(e) motion does not authorize family court to modify final order, sua sponte, in manner not requested by the moving party

June 29, 2011

The June 29, 2011 Court of Appeals opinion in Wannamaker v. Wannamaker, 395 S.C. 592, 719 S.E.2d 261 (Ct. App. 2011) (refiled August 11, 2011 with a

United States Supreme Court finds that indigent defendant is not entitled to appointed counsel for child support civil contempt proceeding but still vacates South Carolina Supreme Court judgment of civil contempt

June 20, 2011

The June 20, 2011 United States Supreme Court opinion in Turner v. Rogers, 131 S.Ct. 2507 (2011), will radically alter the way the South Carolina Family Court

Supreme Court drops burden to modify support agreements; holds requirement to maintain health insurance is a form of modifiable alimony despite parties’ waiver of alimony

May 31, 2011

The May 31, 2011 South Carolina Supreme Court opinion in Miles v. Miles, 393 S.C. 111, 711 S.E.2d 880 (2011),  remedies what many South Carolina family

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

May 11, 2011

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