GREENVILLE (AP) The biological parents of a 2-year-old boy who fell into a pool and died in 2016 are suing the boy’s foster parents. The Greenville News reports two lawsuits were filed Aug. 6 on behalf of Njamena Wilcox and William Patrick Henry ...

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For years, attorneys with the South Carolina Department of Social Services have argued that a state Supreme Court decision prevented foster parents from pursuing private adoption actions of children placed in their homes. But the high court obliterated that argument ...

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S.C.D.S.S. v. Boulware (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-042-16, 9 pp.) (Per Curiam) Appealed from Union County Family Court (Coreen B. Khoury, J.) S.C. App. Holding: Even though petitioner foster parents were allowed to intervene in the DSS removal action, the family ...

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