South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

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 ...

Although a family court may create a trust or require other security to protect child support payments, such a device is generally used to ensure the asset will not be dwindled away by the supporting parent. Here, the trial court ...

We know of no authority requiring the family court to give a witness-by-witness account of its credibility assessments. The family court’s final order explains that the judge reviewed all of the exhibits, considered the testimony, and considered witness credibility. The ...

Although the record supports the family court’s ruling that respondent-Husband properly served appellant-Wife by publication 15 years after they separated, Wife’s evidence as to notice and health issues showed that she challenged the validity of the family court’s divorce decree ...

In a contest to determine whether a deceased mother’s (Mother’s) live-in boyfriend was a psychological parent to her orphaned child (Child), the trial court properly admitted a Facebook post by Mother which described the boyfriend as “such a great father ...

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 ...

Where a troubled mother, who later committed suicide, invited her own father to participate in raising her child, such that he developed a strong parental bond with the child, and where the child’s father participated only minimally in the child’s ...