South Carolina Supreme Court holds child abuse examiners are not to be used as expert witnesses
August 5, 2015
In a criminal appeal that has implications for family law attorneys who defend abuse and neglect proceedings, on August 5, 2015, in the case of
April 16, 2015
I am beginning to pity the South Carolina Court of Appeals. For the third time in less than two months the South Carolina Supreme Court
How do you depublish an opinion?
March 28, 2015
Twice in the past 1 ½ months the South Carolina Supreme Court has ordered that a published South Carolina Court of Appeals opinion be depublished.
Supreme Court sets procedures for family court attorney fee awards
December 3, 2014
The December 3, 2014 South Carolina Supreme Court opinion in Buist v. Buist, 410 S.C. 569, 766 S.E.2d 381 (2014), sets forth procedures to be used
We could have been more progressive than West Virginia…but no!
October 10, 2014
Yesterday, October 9, 2014, in an order from State ex rel. Wilson v. Condon, 410 S.C. 331, 764 S.E.2d 247 (2014), the South Carolina Supreme Court issued
September 29, 2014
Eight weeks after the Court of Appeals affirmed a family court finding that South Carolina’s adoption statute required strict compliance with statutory consent requirements in
Supreme Court changes Family Court 365 day benchmark administrative order
August 28, 2014
On August 27, 2014 the South Carolina Supreme Court issued an administrative order superseding the May 9, 2006 order that set the 365 day benchmark
Family court attorney gets public reprimand for inaccurate client affidavit
July 2, 2014
In what should put chills in my fellow family law attorneys’ spines, on July 2, 2014, a South Carolina family law attorney was publicly reprimanded
