May 28, 2010
A couple of interesting things are happening in yesterday’s Court of Appeals opinion in Bodkin v. Bodkin, 388 S.C. 203, 694 S.E.2d 230 (2010), which, with one
May 10, 2010
Very interesting oped piece in today’s New York Times by its token conservative columnist Russ Douthat, Red Family, Blue Family. It uncannily describes what I observe
May 3, 2010
When a spouse becomes terminated in the midst of marital litigation there are frequent disputes whether any severance should be treated as income to the
When your divorce lawyer’s results leave you vaguely unsatisfied
April 15, 2010
Found this on a recent vacation at a Voodoo shop in New Orleans. Over the years I have had more than one divorcing client who would
Court of Appeals clarifies what is proof of physical cruelty and what isn’t proof of adultery
April 14, 2010
I have had a number of cases in which a spouse (in my experience, always the husband) has destroyed the home phone in the midst
The culture’s misconceptions about condonation
March 3, 2010
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
March 3, 2010
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
Why the delay between the Sanfords’ divorce hearing and the divorce?
February 27, 2010
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
