You don’t have to pretend to be perfect
March 30, 2017
A lot of family court litigants harm their cases because they don’t want to admit anything that makes them look bad. Confronted with such behavior
What’s so primo about primacy?
March 26, 2017
Folks will often contact my office with a desire to file a divorce or custody case immediately, “before the other side does.” Sometimes there is
March 20, 2017
Child support can be modified based upon a substantial change of circumstances. Common circumstances that justify a child support modification are when work-related child care
If you want peace, prepare for war
March 19, 2017
Clients often ask me, if the goal is to settle the case, why I ask them to gather substantial information or why I issue discovery
March 15, 2017
There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we
Best practices in responding to requests for production
February 17, 2017
I spend a lot of time struggling to get opposing attorneys to fully respond to requests for production. Often it’s hard to tell if the
January 20, 2017
When South Carolina codified child custody factors in June 2012 as S.C. Code § 63-15-220, I noted,“I do not see any reason why this statute
Little reason to attack the guardian at trial
January 15, 2017
Working on materials for an upcoming lecture on attorney/guardian interactions, I realized that it had been years since I last felt compelled to “attack” the
