General Knowledge

Often those in the helping professions get drawn into the darkness of marital litigation. Here are four (4) things to consider should a child’s therapist be asked to provide evidence in a contested custody case.  You are a “fact witness”:  Know that you are a potential witnes...

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...