http://www.elprime.com/tracker/family-law/SC.html Family Law South Carolina We track thousands of legal websites daily to deliver you prospects actively looking for your legal specialities in South Carolina. Fri, 20 Jan 2012 06:43:51 -0600 en-us http://www.elprime.com/tracker/subscribe.htm?477551.001 Sat, 01 Aug 2009 16:12:00 -0600 Divorce, Separation & Annulment Three years ago, my husband legally separated from me in SC. During the year of separation, we had sex numerous times, even the night before the final divorce hearing. Because I mentioned this to the judge, he did not grant my husband a divorce. We eventually got back together and moved to TN. He filed for divorce due to irreconcilable differences and I was served in June. After I was served, he told me I can not use the excuse of us being intimate with this divorce because it won't matter and we continued having sex. He is divorcing me because I'm bipolar although he said he still loved me. My question is why is it any different between before and now. I mean, why did the judge throw out the divorce three years ago, but this time, it's ok? http://www.elprime.com/tracker/subscribe.htm?477551.001 http://www.elprime.com/tracker/subscribe.htm?477430.001 Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:39:00 -0600 Child Custody & Visitation Would vacation bible school be considered legally an extracurricular activity? It is a one week, evenings-only event. http://www.elprime.com/tracker/subscribe.htm?477430.001 http://www.elprime.com/tracker/subscribe.htm?477399.001 Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:55:00 -0600 Domestic Violence & Abuse If a drunk spouse decides to leave the home to visit a friend (who is coming to pick up the drunk person) and the sober spouse refuses to give them their car keys, instead giving them only a house key to get into the house when they return, is that considered unlawfully detaining a person? http://www.elprime.com/tracker/subscribe.htm?477399.001 http://www.elprime.com/tracker/subscribe.htm?477003.001 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:06:00 -0600 Child Support I had trial yesterday for a modification petition i filed last year. My case is ongoing since 1999. I have always sat at the defense table. I am supposed to be done w/support, so i challenged the amount SCU says i owe. My question is did i get screwed by being put on the plaintiff's table when i have always been a defendant. ( I had a case based on defense rather offense.) Or were they well within the law doing this? I can't see how my rights weren't violated, but I'm no lawyer. (thats why i'm on here trying to get help) Thanks for any help i can get. http://www.elprime.com/tracker/subscribe.htm?477003.001 http://www.elprime.com/tracker/subscribe.htm?476979.001 Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:16:00 -0600 Child Custody & Visitation South carolina!! My husband has two boys from previous girlfriend she had custody but it was taken from her and given to her father the grandfather I just wanted to know why didn't dss contact my husband and give the kids to him... Is that right my husband is not a bad person and we have money so why?? If u can help please help us?? http://www.elprime.com/tracker/subscribe.htm?476979.001 http://www.elprime.com/tracker/subscribe.htm?476897.001 Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:45:00 -0600 Child Support What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? NEW YORK, MY QUESTION IS THAT MY SISTERS HUSBAND MOVED TO SOUTH CAROLINA. HE HAS NOT PAID CHILD SUPPORT FOR SEVEAL MONTHS,CAN SHE HAVE HIM ARESTED AND SENT TO JAIL IN NEW YORK http://www.elprime.com/tracker/subscribe.htm?476897.001 http://www.elprime.com/tracker/subscribe.htm?476877.001 Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:53:00 -0600 Child Custody & Visitation I will give a brief background before I ask my questions. October of 2007 I moved from Wisconsin to South Carolina. My then 10 year old son wanted to come with me as we are a very close father and son. We had a court date on January of 2008 in which I argued that my son is doing poorly in school (5th grade) with a 2.2 GPA, is in a Charter school with an advanced curriculum and is forced to take Spanish while he is getting D’s in math. Also, he wants to be with his dad for the school year and do summers with mom and expressed this to the GAL. Her attorney argued that you can’t move the boy to South Carolina where he has never been and does not know anyone there (made this the biggest issue). GAL said that you really do not want to move a boy with what they thought is ADHD into a new environment and that while the GAL knew that the boy wants to be with his dad, he wasn’t sure it was in his best interest. So, he has been with mom in Wisconsin during the school year and with me for the summers and school breaks with court orders requiring mom to have the boy evaluated for ADHD, for her to call me once a week when the boy is placed with her and to allow unlimited phone calls to either parent when the other has placement. Now his grades have fallen off to a 1.2 GPA. He failed 6th grade math and will have to re-take it. His mom never had him evaluated for ADHD. She doesn’t call me to update me on my son’s progress even though I have faithfully called her every week when he is with me. She has been instructed by her attorney to limit his calls to me to one per day in violation of the court order. I did have him evaluated for ADHD and he does indeed suffer from this. He is now 12 ½ and continues to tell everyone that will listen to him that he wants to go to school here and spend summers with his mom. He has been here for 2 summers, 2 spring breaks and one Christmas. He has many friends here and loves to play golf with me. Based on this information, my Attorney filed a motion to change the placement schedule and her Attorney filed a motion to dismiss the case. Well, in court yesterday, the judge ruled on her attorney’s motion to dismiss. She said that there hasn’t been a substantial change in circumstances from the January 2008 hearing to warrant a trial on my attorney’s motion and dismissed the case and is going to make me contribute to her legal fees. This is the same judge that issued the orders that my ex isn’t following. We even brought out the letter her attorney wrote instructing her to limit my son’s phone calls to me to one per day. What constitutes “a substantial change in circumstances”? This seemed like a no-brainer and now my son is devastated. He wanted to start 7th grade here. Would an appeal be warranted or do you all agree with the judge? She seemed to be basing her decision on the fact that the same "topics" have been heard in the January hearing so nothing is changed even though the circumstances regarding these "topics" are VERY different with his grades at a near failing level and his mom not following the court order along with the fact that he has been here many times and has several good friends here. (this was a big concern in January)What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? http://www.elprime.com/tracker/subscribe.htm?476877.001 http://www.elprime.com/tracker/subscribe.htm?476144.001 Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:07:00 -0600 Child Custody & Visitation My son is 5 years old. His father was absent for the first 3+ years of his life. Father has since come back into his life for the last 1+ years. We agreed to a pretty normal visitation plan. My son has had some problems adjusting to father entering his life, especially being told to call him daddy, his new gf mommy, new grandma, etc, along with him talking bad about both me and my boyfriend of 4 years (saying we are bad parents). My son doesnt want to go with father for visits or talk to him on the phone, son has told father this. Father always interrogates son about his reasons but son gets intimidated and doesnt give much of an answer I guess. My son opens up to me and tells me it is bc the things that father says to him (about us) makes him sad and he doesnt like calling them all mommy/daddy among other things. I have tried to address these issues with the father a bunch of times so he could work on them but he denies anything is happening and gets very defensive and winds up starting a fight and ignoring the situation. He now is bringing me to court for PAS!?! I have done everything in our agreement and havent done anything to alienate them but he puts all the blame for their relationship as my fault somehow. I believe that he has alienated himself by not being a part of our sons life for years and continues to alienate himself by saying these bad things about us here. Sorry this turned out much longer than I thought but do I have anything to worry about it court regarding this PAS accusation? Will therapy be court ordered bc of this? I cant really afford a lawyer so do you have any advice for me when I see the judge. Thanks. http://www.elprime.com/tracker/subscribe.htm?476144.001 http://www.elprime.com/tracker/subscribe.htm?476099.001 Thu, 23 Jul 2009 07:31:00 -0600 Child Custody & Visitation My husband and i have had physical primary custody of his son for about 10 yrs now. He is 14 yrs old now. We moved from SC to GA 2 yrs ago with her permission to taking the child with us and she signed a witnessed paper stating so that we handled outside of court. She is taking us back to court for her to get custody...long story short. She is a convicted felon..she had a meth lab in her home. She has a hx of drug issues. she spent 18 months in prison and got out 06/06...has a history of being unstable. Has lived with her boyfriend now of 2 yrs (not married) even though our court papers state she can not have any over night guests of the opposite sex without being married. She is not consistant in her visitation. within the last year, the child told us that she told him she was selling pills to make gas money to come get him, there is long list of issues. In the last year or so, the child wants to go live with his mother, he has been in alot of trouble here. He was staying the night with a friend and did some vandelism, has been charged, is now a convicted felon himself, is on probation, has been on house arrest, we have done all we can do to keep him on the right path, he spent 13 days in a adolescent facility for his depression, anger, etc....did really, really well. Now that he is out of there, off house arrest and has visited his mother again, he has taken 10 steps backwards. what are the chances that she could actually get him back? Will he have a large say it what happens? does she have to prove us unfit to get him? and all the trouble that he has been in look bad on us even though we have done all we can do to correct it. and if she does what happens to the $4,000 + that she owes in back child support? will we have to pay her? We go to court in a week or so and we can not afford a lawyer right now with the hospital bills, medication bills, paying for the classes that he had to take, and paying the probation officer. http://www.elprime.com/tracker/subscribe.htm?476099.001 http://www.elprime.com/tracker/subscribe.htm?475889.001 Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:51:00 -0600 Child Custody & Visitation Just got divorced in SC. I was awarded sole permanent custody of 2 minor children. Father has been out of their lives for almost 3 years. My youngest is almost 4. They have had no contact with him. He has been workign under the table and stated in court that he is homeless and unemployed although I know he works 2 jobs. He pays $175/month in child support when he wants to. Right now he is 2 months behind. At final hearing judge ordered him to obtain a PO box in his own name to receive correspondence with the court. He has obtained a "general delivery" address. Will the court find this acceptable? http://www.elprime.com/tracker/subscribe.htm?475889.001 http://www.elprime.com/tracker/subscribe.htm?475636.001 Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:33:00 -0600 Child Custody & Visitation My husband's son passed away in April and left 2 daughters. We moved our granddaughters into my husband's sisters house along with their mother, who lives in Maryland where our granddaughters live. We live in South Carolina. Their mother doesn't have a job and is using drugs. Their mother was asked to leave the house due to taking drugs and stealing money. What are the chances of us being able to get custody of them and what do we need to do? We have contacted Social Services about this. Thanks http://www.elprime.com/tracker/subscribe.htm?475636.001 http://www.elprime.com/tracker/subscribe.htm?475464.001 Sat, 18 Jul 2009 17:31:00 -0600 Divorce, Separation & Annulment I was married in NY 19 years ago. 8 years ago me and the children moved to SC he was suppose to follow. (never did). Two year ago he convinced my son (he is now 19 yrs. old) to move to NY. My daughter (now 15 yrs old) live with me. I filed for divorce 2 year ago. But ran out of money. The divorce was never finalized. It is a non-contested divorce. Questions: Do I have to start the procedure all over again? I have all the paperwork and I plan to take to the clerk or is that a waste of time? Being that we have not lived together in over 8 years, is it necessary to get a legal separation?What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? http://www.elprime.com/tracker/subscribe.htm?475464.001 http://www.elprime.com/tracker/subscribe.htm?475340.001 Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:49:00 -0600 Marriage, Domestic Partnerships and Other Family Law Matters I want to know if it is legal for one person on a joint checking account to close the account and take the all the funds and open a new account under their name only. http://www.elprime.com/tracker/subscribe.htm?475340.001