General Knowledge

Many marital settlement agreement are the result of lengthly negotiations. Sometimes after an agreement has been signed one of the parties feels that they got the short end of the stick and want to back out. Can they do this? Our laws encourages people to reach out of court settlements and were desi...

Many of us have heard that a person cannot be compelled to testify against their spouse. Can a person actually avoid legal jeopardy because their spouse, who holds the key evidence, refuses to testify? South Carolina has a statute on the books that speaks specifically to this (S.C.Code Ann. § 19-11...

Many couples who marry are of the same or similar religious faith. When parents divorce the religious upbringing of the children is rarely an issue. On occasion, however, disagreement arises. In those cases, who gets to make the decision? The United States was founded upon a rule of law that require...

Many people, including many of my colleagues in the Bar, feel that “might makes right” and that brute force is necessary to prevail in a contested family law case. As many of my friends know I have been a Tai Chi practitioner since the middle 1970’s. We learn when we practice Tai C...

Many years ago surgical patients who also suffered from chronic depression were reporting a mysterious lifting of their symptoms after surgery. These patients had been given an anesthesia called ketamine during their surgery. As a result, researchers have been studying the use of ketamine to help pe...