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Charleston Family Court Lawyers | 10 Ways to Ruin Your Family Court Case

March 27, 2014 By Patricia O. DeTreville Leave a Comment

Charleston Family Court Lawyers | 10 Ways to Ruin Your Family Court Case

If you really, really want to lose in Family Court (and yes, there is a very broad definition of “losing” in Family Court, but for our purposes here, it means “fail to obtain your objectives”) it is really not that hard. Do the things I have outlined here, and you can lose big time. To the contrary, help yourself by AVOIDING these items:

1) Get your kids involved in your fight.

Nothing makes professionals – including Family Court judges – [Read more…]

Filed Under: Child Support, Contempt of Court, Divorce, Ethics, testing, Uncategorized Tagged With: charleston divorce, charleston family court lawyers, child support, contempt of court, top 10 mistakes

James Island Divorce Lawyers | Loving Your Kids After Divorce

February 10, 2014 By Patricia O. DeTreville Leave a Comment

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It’s almost Valentine’s Day. Here is some holiday advice from our James Island divorce lawyers on giving your children special gifts when they are experiencing the divorce or separation of their parents.

Every holiday brings strain to children whose parents are divorced, going through a divorce, or just separated – no matter how long it has been since their parents have been together.

Father and/or Mother may now have a new spouse (stepfather or stepmother), a significant other, or just a new boyfriend or girlfriend. There may or may not be loving grandparents in the pictu [Read more…]

Filed Under: Best Interest of the Child, Current Events, Custody, Divorce, Ethics, Holidays, Separation, testing, Uncategorized Tagged With: best interests of the child, charleston divorce lawyers, holidays, james island divorce lawyers, valentine's day, west ashley divorce lawyers

Charleston Divorce: Can One Lawyer Represent Both Parties in a Divorce?

November 18, 2013 By J. Michael DeTreville Leave a Comment

Charleston divorce one lawyer represent both parties

We get asked if we can represent both husband and wife in a Charleston divorce with surprising frequency. Largely, it seems, the question comes from a misunderstanding over what it means for a lawyer to “represent” somebody; what they are really meaning to ask is if one lawyer can handle all of the necessary paperwork to accomplish a divorce. In circumstances where the parties have reached a full agreement on all the terms of a divorce, it is definitely acceptable for a single attorney to handle a divorce, [Read more…]

Filed Under: Divorce, Ethics, Separation, testing, Uncategorized Tagged With: charleston divorce, cost of divorce, divorce, ethics, separation

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