Best Family Law Attorneys in North Charleston, SC

You can file for divorce after you and your spouse have been living separate and apart for one year. This means you both must live under separate roofs with no intermittent resumption of marital relations. It must be 12 consecutive months of separation.

The South Carolina Child Support Guidelines are a simple formula that calculates child support based upon the gross income of both parties, work related child care costs and medical insurance costs for the minor children.

Our fees are set on a case by case basis. We will set our fees based on what we believe to be the complexity of your case, the animosity between you and your spouse, and the other attorney who is involved (if known). All fees are are based upon billable hours charged against a retainer paid in advance. Fees could greatly exceed the retainer and you will be required to replenish your trust account in order for us to continue to work on your case. In a Collaborative Practice case, we will do your case on a fixed fee basis (in other words, we will do your entire case for a set fee paid in advance, usually around $5,000) if the other attorney is willing to do the same.

You and your lawyer will almost always be in a separate room from your spouse and his/her lawyer. The mediator will then begin the process by taking an offer from one side (usually the plaintiff) to the other room, then returning with a counter offer. This process will continue back and forth, with the mediator assisting the parties in structuring the offers and counteroffers, until an agreement is reached.

No, Interest Based negotiation has been utilized by conflict resolution professionals for nearly half a century dealing with such diverse problems as international disputes between nations, employment matters and neighborhood problems.