What is Kinship Care? When the South Carolina Department of Social Services (DSS) is involved with a child, they may deem it necessary to remove the child from the home. Typically, a child is removed if the parent cannot provide safety, food, clothing, shelter, education or...
Hyde Law Firm, P.A. is thrilled to celebrate National Adoption Awareness Month during the month of November. Our state faces an urgent need for adoptive families for children in foster care. In 1984, President Ronald Reagan proclaimed the first National Adoption Week and in 1995,...
Well, it depends. Unfortunately, I utter this phrase more than I would like. But in my line of work, it comes with the territory because, especially in the area of family law, each case is fact-driven and presents unique issues. In large part, however, what happens...
Until recent years, the South Carolina Supreme Court’s position was that it was unconstitutional for a court of this state to require a divorced parent to pay for a child’s college expenses. The involved parties could always agree to such a condition as a term...
All parents have a duty to support their children, both financially and emotionally. When parents of children are no longer married to one another, the laws of South Carolina help determine how much child support should be paid by one party to the other. South Carolina...