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Mark Sanford’s Continuing Soap Opera, and How Mediation Can Help:
Mark Sanford has deluged all of us with the details of his personal life, and with his perception of those details. Most recently, Mr. Sanford took to Facebook and the newspapers to “update his constituents” on his personal life, and to announce he would finally retain the service [Read more…]
It generally will do you no good, and most likely will actively harm you, if you seek the services of an attorney who does not have substantial experience in Family Court. Every area of practice is so different, and the requirements for keeping up in every area so diverse and numerous, it is even more important than ever to seek an experienced Family Court attorney in Charleston[Read more…]
As a divorce lawyer in Charleston, one of my primary responsibilities toward my clients is to help them decide what battles to fight and what issues to let go. Every case is different, so every client’s priorities will be different, but there are some guiding principles that can apply to everybody equally.
As long as you have your children’s best interests at heart, there are few child-related issues that are not worth battling over. [Read more…]
So, I try to keep up with the legal blogs being written by other divorce attorneys in Charleston, both as a means of not only keeping myself abreast of developments in the local legal community but also as a means of keeping my mind open to new and different ways to think about issues common to the community at large. There are several that are really good, and each has carved out a bit of niche for themselves in the “blogosphere.” I am resolved to sharing the information and updates that are out there; it doesn’t matter that these folks are my competitors, good writing is [Read more…]
Not surprisingly, we field questions about the cost of divorce in our office every day. Frequently, these queries come in the form of cold calls — an unidentified caller, without providing the most basic of information about himself or herself, expects our office support staff to provide an exact price for a divorce, as if he or she were shopping for some tangible commodity, like toothpaste. Perhaps even less surprisingly, none of these “price-shoppers” have ever become a client of the firm.
The process of providing a potential client with detailed information as to the [Read more…]
