January 15th, 2026
The January 14, 2025 Court of Appeals opinion in Scherba v. Scherba, reversed the family court’s award of permanent periodic alimony to Wife, finding her underemployment and the frugal lifestyle the parties had during the marriage meant she did not need alimony. It also rejected Husband’s argument that his nonmarital restricted stock units (RSUs) should […]
Read MoreJanuary 29th, 2024
South Carolina updated its child support guidelines on January 15, 2024—for the first time since 2014. There are three main distinctions between the 2014 and 2024 guidelines. First, the Schedule of Basic Support Obligations now goes up to $40,000 per month in combined income. The 2014 version only went up to $30,000 per month. Under […]
Read MoreNovember 22nd, 2022
A sizable portion of my initial consults are with parents frustrated in achieving their custody or visitation goals in the family court. Often these parents are in the midst of custody litigation and find their current attorney ineffectual. Other times, these parents have recently ended their custody/visitation litigation and are trying to determine why they […]
Read MoreSeptember 14th, 2022
On September 7, 2022, the Court of Appeals published an opinion in Holland v. Holland, 438 S.C. 69, 881 S.E.2d 766 (Ct.App. 2021), reversing the family court’s determination that Wife’s attempt to collect a child support obligation in 2017 that ended in 2004 was barred by South Carolina’s statute of limitations. The opinion is curious […]
Read MoreJune 19th, 2022
It is pretty rare that the United States Supreme Court weighs in on family law matters. Thus, I’m surprised I didn’t hear more about its June 15, 2022 decision in Golan v. Saada. That case addressed how the federal district courts should apply an exception to return under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects […]
Read MoreOctober 22nd, 2020
The October 21, 2020 South Carolina Court of Appeals opinion in Rogers v. Rogers, 432 S.C. 168, 851 S.E.2d 447 (Ct.App. 2020), partially answers the question of just how crazy a family court litigant must be in order to have it be reversible error for the court not to appoint that litigant her own guardian […]
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