If you are one of many victims suffering from the recent flooding in SC and previously requested an extension to file your 2014 tax returns, the IRS issued an extension well beyond October 15, 2015. Yesterday, the IRS announced that South Carolina flood victims, including individuals and businesses that previously received a tax-filing extension to [..]
A QDRO is a Court Order that details how monies from a qualified retirement plan are transferred from one spouse to another. Once the Court and Plan Administrator approve the QDRO, the Plan Administrator will send the Alternate Payee (AP) a form asking the AP where he or she wants their money deposited or what [..]
Melissa Fuller Brown, Esq., is the invited guest speaker at the Oklahoma Family Law Section Trial Advocacy School on Tuesday, July 14, 2015. Her presentation is titled “Social Media & ESI: How to Obtain, Preserve & Introduce in Family Court Cases.” Another aspect of the program is the students’ ability to go well beyond the [..]
Melissa Fuller Brown was recently invited to serve as one of fourteen members of the Executive Committee of The National Advocates. The Committee leads this professional organization composed of the Top 100 attorneys from each state. Other Executive Members include Gloria Allred and George Geragos. Prominent Family Lawyers on the Executive Committee include Robert Stephen [..]
Melissa F. Brown was selected as one of the 100 Top Family and Matrimonial Lawyers in the country for 2014. Read more about the membership here: http://www.thenationaladvocates.org/
Along with Stephen Cullen and Kelly Powers of Miles & Stockbridge P.C. (Baltimore & Washington, D.C.), Jonathan W. Lounsberry of Melissa F. Brown, LLC (Charleston, South Carolina) was program Co-Chair for the “The Promise of the 1980 Hague Convention in Asia” Panel at the 2014 ABA Section of International Law’s International Families: Money, Children and Long Term Planning Conference [..]
Today’s (April 16, 2014) Shearouse Advance Sheets No. 15, the South Carolina Supreme Court amended portions of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure that directly impact family court cases. The Court ordered that Rules 11 and 77, SCRCP, are amended and 41.2, SCRCP is added as follows: Amendment to Rule 11(a), SCRCP: “…The written or electronic signature of an attorney [..]
The world of technology changes at break neck speed. Even Apple fans hardly have time to familiarize themselves with a new toy before another is introduced. The new technology is available even before contracts run on the previous models. Most people today are not as concerned about keeping up with the Jones’s as they are with keeping [..]
Judge Paul Garfinkel of the 9th Judicial Circuit Family Court, Charleston County, SC, allowed me to share the following comments he made to the litigants in a recent custody trial. His message is an important and insightful one, which I imagine many parents involved in custody disputes will find helpful. I want to make a few [..]
The South Carolina Chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers has issued a position statement regarding the pending joint custody bill, H. 4614, currently before the State Senate. This legislation would create significant changes in the way custody cases are decided in South Carolina, and in some respects would limit the Family Court’s ability to craft custody arrangements that fit [..]
