March 4, 2010
Trying (unsuccessfully) to locate a case referenced by Professor Roy T. Stuckey dealing with connivance from the days before South Carolina allowed divorce (1949-50), I
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
February 28, 2010
Sigmund Freud spent much of his career seeking an answer to the question “Was will das Weib?” (translation “What does a woman want?”). As a
In South Carolina, juveniles can legally consume alcohol in their parents’ home
February 25, 2010
Few of the family law attorneys I know are aware of S.C. Code Ann. § 63-19-2460, which states: No provision of law prohibiting the use
South Carolina’s alimony lottery
February 19, 2010
I had a recent phone conference with a New Jersey attorney as we discussed the advantages of disadvantages of fighting an alimony case in South
Grandparent child support responsibility when their minor children have children
February 16, 2010
A legal argument I have often made (never successfully) and would love to eventually appeal is whether a parent’s legal obligation to support his or
Should fathers of children born out-of-wedlock have rights and obligations towards those children?
February 11, 2010
The goal of this blog is not to offend but merely to establish the following three points about the current system in which fathers of
