April 24th, 2026
Continuing with the theme of my repeated violations of the Fourth Commandment of Irving Younger’s Ten Commandments of Cross Examination—“Don’t ask a question to which you do not know the answer”—is a question one should almost always ask on cross examination in a custody or visitation case. That question is, “do you have anything good to […]
Read MoreApril 9th, 2026
Most clients seeking to modify a prior visitation or custody final order want that order modified immediately. Most attorneys still reflexively file motions for temporary relief to modify custody or visitation along with the initial complaint. The 2025 rule changes regarding the procedure for motions for temporary relief, made it harder to win such motions by […]
Read MoreSeptember 17th, 2025
A common problem in trying to get fathers[i] of young children more visitation is that often few folks other than family members (who are naturally perceived as biased) regularly observe these fathers parenting their young children. If these fathers do most of their parenting within their home, there are few folks who actually witness the […]
Read MoreFebruary 21st, 2025
The February 12, 2025, Court of Appeals opinion in Dendy v. Gamble, 445 S.C. 367, 914 S.E.2d 165 (Ct. App. 2025), reversed a family court’s award of visitation to Grandparents. This opinion exposes the limitations of non-parents attempting to get visitation through South Carolina’s de facto custody and grandparent visitation statutes or as psychological parents. […]
Read MoreOctober 6th, 2023
Not all litigation over time with a child is actually a battle over physical custody of that child. A subset of “custody” litigation involves only the level of visitation that a “non-custodial” parent should have. I seek lower retainers for visitation cases than I do for custody cases because visitation cases have a narrower focus […]
Read MoreFebruary 3rd, 2023
When I first began practicing family law 30 years ago, “standard visitation” was pretty standard. A fit parent who was not the primary caretaker was going to get his[i] children every other weekend from 6:00 p.m. Friday to 6:00 p.m. Sunday, two to three weeks during summer, alternating Thanksgiving and Spring Breaks, and alternating halves […]
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