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Charleston Divorce Lawyers | Holiday Survival Guide

February 25, 2015 By Patricia O. DeTreville Leave a Comment

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It’s that time of year again. The holidays, of course, where children move back and forth between their separated or divorced parents, where money is short, where demands on time, temper and money become tight, and where small impressions made may live forever.

Suggestions to survive the holidays:

1) Follow the rules.

If you and your former spouse, or your separated spouse, have rules in place to govern the holidays, follow those rules. If you wanted to make changes, or ask for changes, or negotiate changes, this is not the time; that should have been done earlier, say in the summ [Read more…]

Filed Under: Best Interest of the Child, Current Events, Custody, Holidays, Separation, testing, Uncategorized, Visitation Tagged With: best interests of the child, charleston divorce lawyers, holidays, visitation

Charleston Divorce: Can I Withhold Visitation From a Parent Who Is Behind on Child Support?

December 9, 2013 By J. Michael DeTreville Leave a Comment

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Every day we see custodial parents who are pushed to the brink by unpaid child support obligations. The child support system in South Carolina can be slow, and it certainly is imperfect, so it can seem to a parent struggling because of unpaid support that the system doesn’t work, or even worse, doesn’t care.

These feelings lead often to lead to thoughts of self-help; “if the system can’t make him pay child support maybe I can.” And what is the only “bargaining chip” a custodial parent may have in their relationship with the non-paying parent [Read more…]

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Charleston Divorce: Child Visitation with Skype and Facetime

November 10, 2013 By J. Michael DeTreville Leave a Comment

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NPR recently did an interesting piece about infants and toddlers and the increasing screen time they receive in our tech-driven world. Suffice to say, doctors, parenting specialists, and others in the know all universally agree: passive screen time (movies, shows, games, etc.) for children two years and younger has a negative impact [Read more…]

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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…]

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Charleston Divorce Lawyers: The Standard Visitation Generation

June 2, 2013 By Patricia O. DeTreville Leave a Comment

Charleston Divorce Lawyers | Standard Visitation

Our Charleston divorce lawyers have seen at least one generation of children grow up with the “standard visitation” regimen of living with Mom and spending “every other weekend” with Dad. Children did not like it, still don’t like it, and have suffered under this routine. What do children say when asked about this routine, which includes sharing holidays, travelling distances, splitting summers, and all the rest? Many of them are young adults now and they are not shy about their opinions:

1) They hate travelling on holidays. [Read more…]

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