South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Madison Bailey Barnhill has joined Turner Padget as an associate in the firm’s wealth and estate planning practice group in its Columbia office. Barnhill’s practice will focus on wills and trusts, estate and gift taxes, real estate transfers, charitable giving, ...

The parties’ younger daughter’s grades declined for some of the time she was in the defendant-Mother’s custody; however, her reading scores began to greatly improve approximately two weeks before the hearing in this matter. Further, the parties’ elder daughter was ...

The statute under which respondent was sentenced for cocaine trafficking, S.C. Code Ann. § 44-53-370, lists several sentences which are not eligible for parole. Although the sentence respondent received is not on this list, S.C. Code Ann. § 24-13-150 nevertheless ...

Where the parties’ 18-year-old son had dropped out of high school and had been working full-time for one or two years, and where he had previously attended GED classes but stopped without receiving his GED, the fact that the son ...

Plaintiffs requested certain documents (the “midnight documents”), and defendant Cleaver-Brooks, Inc., violated a discovery order by not producing the requested documents until midway through the trial. As a result, Rule 37(b)(2) applies, making sanctions proper. We affirm the circuit court’s ...

The defendant-insurer’s completed operations hazard and products hazard exclusions do not protect it from the claim of the stepson of an employee who routinely came home covered in asbestos dust while the plaintiff-insured was installing asbestos-containing products at the stepfather’s ...

Certain real property was owned by a father and son in a joint tenancy with right of survivorship. The execution of a contract to sell the land did not sever the joint tenancy. When the father died before the sale ...

Plaintiffs filed suit, contending that a member of the plaintiff-limited liability company misused LLC funds to pay his personal expenses. Where the LLC’s operating agreement provided, “Any dispute as to whether a controversy or claim is subject to arbitration shall ...

In considering the best interest of the minor child (Child) in this case, the family court appeared to give undue weight to the fact that, as a result of terminating the respondent-Father’s parental rights and allowing the petitioner-Grandfather to adopt ...

Although COVID-19 is highly communicable, is aggravated by certain other medical conditions and can be lethal, defendant failed to make the requisite showing that he has a particularized susceptibility to the disease and a particularized risk of contracting the disease ...