High income child support in South Carolina: extrapolation versus the “Three Pony Rule”
September 12, 2010
A belief undergirding support guidelines is that children are entitled to enjoy a lifestyle similar to their parents, but if daddy has an entourage does
August 5, 2010
Early in my career I would treat any outlandish allegation an opposing counsel would make regarding my client as serious. Upon being informed via telephone
Calling bullsh*t on custodial parents who let the children decide their visitation
August 4, 2010
When I first started practicing family law I would encounter a number of visitation enforcement hearings in which the custodial parent tried to excuse his
July 29, 2010
The July 28, 2010 Court of Appeals opinion in High v. High, 389 S.C. 226, 697 S.E.2d 690 (Ct. App. 2010) presents little new analysis of
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
How to draft a family court final order that will get sustained on appeal
July 12, 2010
Pursuant to South Carolina Rule of Family Court 26 (a & b): An order or judgment pursuant to an adjudication in a domestic relations case
What does default mean in South Carolina family court?
July 7, 2010
South Carolina Family Court Rule 17(a), appears to mitigate some of the harsher consequences under the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure for a failure
Why family court attorneys should know how to do appeals
July 6, 2010
There are approximately a half dozen family law attorneys in the Charleston, South Carolina area whom I consider extremely underrated. Typically their hourly rate
