Will the Recent Changes to the Abuse and Neglect Statute Make These Cases Harder to Settle?
July 18, 2010
I received an email from a recently licensed attorney noting a previous blog and asking whether I thought she, as the guardian ad litem in
June 18, 2010
On May 12, 2010, South Carolina enacted Senate bill 1172, which makes changes to the Child Protection and Permanency statute. Among the highlights: The revisions
The link between animal cruelty and domestic violence
June 15, 2010
When I was in my late teens my best friend was a brilliant, iconoclastic, Catholic, conservative, whose parents has escaped Communist Poland and lived in
May 23, 2010
The first in a series on Child Protective Services in South Carolina was published in today’s Charleston Post & Courier: State of Abuse. This initial
Updated abuse and neglect materials
March 26, 2010
Less than a year after undertaking extensive research in 2007 to draft materials for lectures on representing parents in abuse and neglect cases, South Carolina’s
December 3, 2009
Today the Court of Appeals, in Department of Social Services v. Laura D., 386 S.C. 382, 688 S.E.2d 130 (2009), reversed and remanded a family court’s decision
November 13, 2009
I have mediated a couple of DSS child abuse and neglect cases recently in which the treatment plan was resolved (that is, everyone agreed what the
