Maximizing the benefit of clearing your client’s name

August 26, 2011

I sometime envision opposing counsel in highly contentious domestic litigation as a bullying gunslinger, shooting bullets at my client’s feet and demanding that my client

Blowback, specks and planks

August 25, 2011

Only inexperienced or unthinking family law attorneys take aggressive action against an opposing party without expecting blowback against their client.  It’s animal nature to strike

What part of don’t don’t you understand

August 25, 2011

Friend and colleague Mary Jane (M.J.) Goodwin suggested I blog on the propriety of citing unpublished appellate opinions as legal authority in other cases.  Are

Should parents ever agree to court-ordered college support in South Carolina?

August 24, 2011

Even before Webb v. Sowell, 387 S.C. 328, 692 S.E.2d 543 (2010), overruled Risinger v. Risinger, 273 S.C. 36, 253 S.E.2d 652 (1979), and held

Turn the other cheek!

August 21, 2011

As a Jew I don’t believe in Christ’s divinity; however, I certainly believe in his wisdom. Perhaps the wisest of Christ’s counsel: Turn the Other

Controlling the tempo of domestic litigation

August 20, 2011

One thing that is never taught in trial advocacy law school classes and rarely noted in continuing legal education seminars is the role of tempo

Be careful what your client vouches for

August 12, 2011

Most attorneys know that their clients’ own affidavit(s) can be used against them at trial as an admission of a party opponent.  SCRE 801(d)(2)(A).  However,

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

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