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Charleston Lawyers | Conflict and Mediation, the Sanford Case Study

September 30, 2014 By Patricia O. DeTreville Leave a Comment

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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…]

Filed Under: Adultery, Agreements, Contempt of Court, Current Events, Marital Fault, Mediation, Self-Representation, testing, Uncategorized Tagged With: charleston lawyers, contempt, jenny sanford, mark sanford, mediation, rule to show cause

Divorce Lawyer in Charleston | Picking Your Battles Wisely

February 12, 2014 By J. Michael DeTreville Leave a Comment

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“If you treat every situation as a life or death matter, you’ll die a lot of times.”

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.

Your children are worth fighting for.

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…]

Filed Under: Alimony, Best Interest of the Child, Child Support, Custody, Divorce, Mediation, Negotiation, testing, Uncategorized, Visitation Tagged With: charleston divorce, compromise, divorce lawyer in charleston, mediation, negotiation

Cost of Divorce: An Initial Analysis

October 28, 2013 By J. Michael DeTreville

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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…]

Filed Under: Alimony, Child Support, Custody, Divorce, Mediation, Separation, testing, Uncategorized, Visitation Tagged With: alimony, charleston child support lawyer, charleston custody lawyer, charleston divorce, cost of divorce, mediation, visitation

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