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For two spouses to carry out a divorce, important decisions must be made about the custody and visitation rights of their children, the division of their assets and debts, and the issues surrounding spousal support.  Various approaches can be used to arrive at decisions regarding the breaking of the marital bonds between two spouses.

Mediation is often the first approach recommended to divorcing spouses.  Mediation allows the spouses to maintain a large degree of control in the decisions made about their divorce, and is an encouraged method because it can speed up the process and reduce the monetary costs associated with divorce litigation.

Mediation

Divorce mediation in Charleston is the preferred method to approaching a divorce because it is more cooperative than litigation.  It encourages mutual understanding and dispute resolution between the spouses— while keeping them in control of their decisions and the outcomes and consequences thereof.  It is designed to keep decision-making power in the hands of the people who know the situation the best—the spouses who are living it.

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While a judge has the professional training, experience, and knowledge necessary to resolve divorce disputes, no judge can know the unique conditions and circumstances of a family as well as the family itself.  To avoid having lifelong decisions imposed upon them by a South Carolina court, many divorcing spouses choose mediation, and the flexible and creative solutions it can offer.

However, mediation is not always an appropriate approach, and it is not always successful.  If one party is unwilling or unable to participate in the mediation process, it is not a plausible option.  Similarly, if a mediator concludes that the spouses are not reaching an agreement, discovers that disclosure from one or both spouses was not full or fair, or believes that an agreement is not fair, a strategy other than mediation may be encouraged.

Litigation

If a fair, cooperative, and mutual agreement cannot be reached between two divorcing spouses through mediation, then the approach must be shifted from cooperative resolution to litigation.  Divorce litigation is held in a court setting, and the decisions that are made in the divorce proceedings are made by a judge, after he or she has evaluated the information, advocacy, and negotiations set forth by the attorney of each spouse.

In addition to the higher costs incurred by divorce litigation, this approach often involves filed declarations made by both spouses (in an attempt to gain an advantage) which become public records accessible to anyone who searches for them after the case is closed.

While the divorce process can be a highly stressful, many people prefer being personally responsible and accountable for the decisions that it involves.

Although mediation promotes this wish to maintain control of the decision-making process, it is not always a successful or appropriate method.  If you are involved in a divorce in Charleston, South Carolina, contact an experience attorney to help with your case.

While you should find a lawyer skilled in mediation, and encourage it as a method that gives you a sense of control over divorce-related decisions, also look for one who is skilled in aggressively advocating the rights of our clients in litigation when mediation is not an option.

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Question by Sd456: In the state of south Carolina will a minor in consumption be removed from my record if I am 17?
I was given a ticket for minor in consumption at a checkpoint (our driver was sober) on my way home last week and I recieved a breath test and blew 0.08. I have to appear in court along with ten other kids who were also in our car. According to law the ticket will be between $ 100 and $ 200. But I am 17 so I want to know if, because I am a minor (under 18) , will my record be expunged or sealed when I turn 18 or do I have to take a class and do community service? The cop told me that I did NOT have to take the class to get my record cleared because I am 17 but others have told me differently

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Answer by Kung Fu Panda
juvenile records are sealed when you turn 18 in most states.ask the judge.your allowed to ask questions if your genuinely concerned.just make it short.say your honour and yes your honour when he speaks to you.he earned that right

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The following dialogue is taken directly from the South Carolina Court’s Self-Help FAQs to Magistrates Court. PLEASE NOTE: This information applies only to South Carolina Magistrates Courts and may NOT be updated as changes are made. Please check the SC Judicial Department’s Self-Help page for updates.
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Disorder in a South Carolina court! A man accused of killing his girlfriend is attacked by the woman’s family. He wasn’t seriously hurt, but the judge denied his request for a reduction in bail. The judge also slapped the attackers with a contempt of court charge and sent them to jail to cool off.
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Question by K C: In South Carolina is your juvenile record expunged automatically when you turn 18?
I am just curious if this is true. I remember hearing it from the court long ago. I have run a record check on myself and it came back clean but it was not a federal record check. Just a SLED check for SC. Any help on this would be appreciated.

Thank You

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Answer by Ed
No your record stays with you

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Pizza, the way we know it today, is a derivation from focaccia (from the Latin word for fire), flat bread that has been prepared since antiquity in different forms and garnished with herbs, olives, fat, raisin, honey, and nuts. The word pizza in Italian identifies any type of flat bread or pie-fried or baked. Although you’d find many types of pitas or pizzas around the Mediterranean, it is in Naples that pizza in the form we know it today first emerged, after the tomato appeared on the table in the 1700s. Naples has many records of pizza since around the year 1000; the first mentions call these flat breads laganae, and later they are referred to as picea. In those times, pizzas were dressed with garlic and olive oil, or cheese and anchovies, or small local fish. They were baked on the open fire and sometimes were closed in two, as a book, to form a calzone. In Naples is also where the first pizzerias opened up, with brick wood-burning oven, covered with lava stones from the Mount Vesuvius. The chefs of those times ignored pizza because was considered a poor people’s food, but the new combination with the tomato, when it entered the kitchen around the 1770s, must have raised some curiosity, even in the royal palace. Ferdinand I Bourbon, King of Naples, loved the simple food of the people and went to taste the pizzas made in the shop of Antonio Testa. He liked it so much that he wanted pizza to be included in the menu at the court. He failed after the opposition of his wife, Queen Maria Carolina. His son Ferdinand II also liked all kind of popular food and he loved pizza to the point that he hired Domenico Testa, son of the now famous Antonio, to build a pizza oven in the royal palace of Capodimonte. Pizza became very popular, earning its place in Neapolitan folklore. Simple and economical, it turned into the food for all people, even sold on the streets, as shown in many illustrations of the time. A famous episode extended the popularity of pizza beyond the limits of the city of Naples. It was 1889, and Margherita, queen of Italy, was visiting the city. She was told about pizza and wanted to taste it. A famous cook by the name of Don Raffaele, helped by his wife Donna Rosa, was invited to cook pizza at the royal palace. They prepared three pizzas, typical of that time: one with cheese and basil; one with garlic, oil, and tomato; and one with mozzarella, basil, and tomato. The queen, impressed by the colors of the last pizza, which resembled the national flag, preferred that one. Since then this pizza is known as Pizza Margherita, and Don Raffaele is credited with its invention, even if we know that it already existed for a long time. At the beginning of the last century, with Italian immigrants, the first pizzerias appeared also in the United States, where pizza has become a mass phenomenon. Yet, even today the best pizza is found in Naples, where it is rigorously made with buffalo mozzarella. Superior pizzas are considered those obtained by moderate variations of the simplest and most popular: Pizza Napoletana with tomato, garlic, oil, and oregano; Pizza Margherita; Pizza Marinara with tomato, anchovies, capers, and olives; and Pizza Four Seasons, divided in four quadrants, each dressed in a different way. Pizza with hot salami, the American pepperoni pizza, is instead found in the Calabria region south of Naples, where this type of hot sausage is produced.

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