Don’t expect the other side to pay your attorney’s fees

Posted Friday, April 14th, 2017 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Attorney-Client Relations, Attorney's Fees, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys

Folks going through marital litigation–and, less often, folks going through custody disputes– often contact me regarding representation with the expectation that the other side will

The best time to defeat a relocation case is before it’s filed

Posted Saturday, April 8th, 2017 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Attorney-Client Relations, Child Custody, Litigation Strategy, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys

In my 20+ years of family law practice, I’ve yet to see a relocation case in which the requested relocation was solely for the child’s

The smartest client I ever had

Posted Friday, April 7th, 2017 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public

I went to a top tier liberal arts college to obtain my undergraduate degree. Many of my classes there involved reading and discussion on the

The price of relocation

Posted Friday, April 7th, 2017 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Attorney-Client Relations, Child Custody, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys

When custodial parents relocate, the non-custodial parent almost always suffers. Typically they lose the frequent contact with the minor child that helps sustain most parent-child

The danger of rushing into custody agreements with the seriously mentally ill or substance abusing

Posted Saturday, April 1st, 2017 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Litigation Strategy, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Visitation

Folks hire family law attorneys not only expecting to have their domestic disputes resolved, but expecting them to be resolved quickly and inexpensively. The method

You don’t have to pretend to be perfect

Posted Thursday, March 30th, 2017 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Attorney-Client Relations, Litigation Strategy, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys

A lot of family court litigants harm their cases because they don’t want to admit anything that makes them look bad. Confronted with such behavior

What’s so primo about primacy?

Posted Sunday, March 26th, 2017 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Litigation Strategy, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys

Folks will often contact my office with a desire to file a divorce or custody case immediately, “before the other side does.” Sometimes there is

If you want peace, prepare for war

Posted Sunday, March 19th, 2017 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Attorney-Client Relations, Litigation Strategy, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys

Clients often ask me, if the goal is to settle the case, why I ask them to gather substantial information or why I issue discovery

The unknown unknowns

Posted Wednesday, March 15th, 2017 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Litigation Strategy, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys

There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we

Half a life

Posted Tuesday, March 14th, 2017 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Divorce and Marriage, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public

I was 9,930 days old when I married Karen Anne Klickstein on December 30, 1989.  As of March 8, 2017, I had been married 9,930 days–half

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