DOMA fight goes to South Carolina MSNBC

Not all divorces are necessarily the divorcing spouses. We have represented elderly Clients who desired to divorce their incapacitated spouse. Sometimes, the incapacitated spouse requires nursing home care, the cost of which can be unaffordable creating marital debt and making both spouses at risk for this debt. Or circumstances may change whereby one spouse is […]

You brought it into the marriage. You inherited it. You built it before you ever said “I do.” So it’s yours to keep if you divorce, right? Not necessarily. In South Carolina, separate property can quietly convert into marital property in what is called transmutation. If you’re not paying attention to how you use, title, […]

Recently, we had a successful appeal come from the South Carolina Court of Appeals involving alimony. It also discussed stock-based compensation and how it is to be treated in divorce cases. In Scherba v. Scherba, (Opinion No. 6128, filed March 18, 2026), the Court of Appeals reviewed a divorce involving a husband who had worked […]