South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

In the parties’ property settlement, the defendant-husband agreed to pay the plaintiff-wife up to $50,000 per year from payments he received “from patents, trademarks, and licensing agreements.” This provision was broad enough to encompass the quarterly payments defendant received from ...

Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. 644 (2015), requires that we treat S.C. Code Ann. § 20-1-15, which prohibited same-sex marriage, as though the statute never existed. We vacate our Court of Appeals’ ruling that § 20-1-15 constituted a basis for ...

Parent willfully failed to visit with child where parent only attended two of 24 visitation dates and exercised phone call rights about half of the time, and refused family offers to move her closer to the child. We reverse the ...

The defendant-Wife owned what became the marital home (Harbor Place) for eight years before the parties’ marriage. While it is true that Wife used marital funds to discharge Harbor Place’s mortgage indebtedness and that the plaintiff-Husband contributed financially to the ...

Even though the defendant-Wife’s income has increased since the parties’ divorce—when she worked two jobs in addition to receiving child support and alimony in order to maintain financial stability—her total monthly income and standard of living have remained relatively constant ...

According to the parties’ divorce decree, if they could not agree on visitation for their son’s (Son’s) birthday, the plaintiff-Mother was to have Son “from after school the night before [Son’s] birthday” and the defendant-Father would have Son “from after ...

According to the record, both parties have relocated (plaintiff-Mother to Florida and defendant-Father to Ohio); their daughters’ (Daughters’) communication with Mother is negatively impacted when they are in Father’s custody, but Mother encourages the relationship between Father and Daughters; and ...

Since the plaintiff-wife inherited a one-seventh interest in her house, that one-seventh interest is her separate property. However, because the wife purchased the remaining six-sevenths interest from her siblings before she filed for divorce, the six-sevenths interest is marital property. ...

Where the parties had a true joint physical custody arrangement, the appellant-mother’s relocation from Greenville to Columbia presents an issue of first impression as to whether there was a substantial change of circumstances warranting a review of the children’s best ...

Even though the defendant-mother (Mother) made most of her child support payments after plaintiffs filed this termination-of-parental-rights (TPR) action, (1) during the first 19 months that Mother’s children were in foster care, Mother failed to provide any support, despite having ...