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What is the name of your state? South Carolina Back in the spring (May 2005), an old landlord brought a civil suit against me regarding a lease. It turned the papers over to an attorney and he filed our answer along with a counterclaim. Landlord answered counterclaim regarding only 3 points on...

What is the name of your state? South Carolina Stepson arrested Saturday night for public drunk and illegal possession of alcohol by an underage person (he is 18 - drinking age in South Carolina is 21). The real capper is that when they cuffed him (at the bar he was brazen enough to take his...

South Carolina My husband's ex quit paying the mortgage on the family home she was awarded in the final divorce decree. In the final decree, it was ruled she would maintain possession of the family home and she was responsible for all obligations related to it, i.e., mortgage, insurance, taxes...

What is the name of your state? South Carolina I recently married a wonderful man that has two children by a previous marriage. His divorce was final in June, 2004. In the final decree, the children were split between him and his ex. He received custody of the son (17) and the ex-wife...

I am in South Carolina My husband has a 17-year-old son (my stepson) who is a mess (i.e., dropped out of school, drugs, alcohol, won't work, etc.) When this child was born, my husband's parents bought a certificate of stock in a local bank for this child. Originally, the stock certificate was...

What is the name of your state? South Carolina I got into a lease/purchase thing last year whereby I leased a mobile home for 7 months while I tried to qualify for financing. The purchase offer was written that the deal was contingent on me finding suitable financing. There was the purchase...

Haven't left anything else out I left out the abuse part because it was highly questionable as to whether it would be admitted into Circuit Court. My attorney told me we had about a 50/50 shot that it would be heard and I didn't want to throw it into the thread if it wouldn't even be a factor...

Anything unusual about going into Master's of Equity Court? Well, just an update on this mess. The Circuit Court judge referred it to the Master in Equity of the county. My attorney says this is good for us because the rules of evidence and procedure are more lax and the Master is more likely...

Thank you for your help. I will check on that. I do some lobbying for my profession so I have a couple of contacts in the state legislature. The guy the judgements are against does own real estate in this county (for now) and yesterday I spoke to the Clerk of Courts about the procedure to...

My state is South Carolina I have a long, drawn-out saga of an ex-boyfriend doing me wrong. Sparing the gory details (which aren't pertinent to this question) this has resulted in 4 separate lawsuits of which 3 are Small Claims and 1 is Circuit Court (has now been referred to the...

Unclean Hands Doctrine My attorney says that is indeed what they will throw at me, the "Unclean Hands" doctrine. But I did not intentionally commit fraud. My honest thought at the time was that "this fellow seems okay" and he had a settlement amount coming that he said he would probably be...

Receipt is Fraud? The receipt reads that the buyer has made a contract with me to pay this downpayment outside of close and has fufilled those obligations as of the date of the receipt. The receipt is dated 6 weeks prior to the close. No dollar amount is noted on that receipt. In the...

What is the name of your state? South Carolina I have a case that has been pending in Civil Court for 1 1/2 years and is finally 15th on the docket for a session starting next week. This case has to do with me never receiving a down payment on some property I sold to someone. I let the buyer...

What is the name of your state? South Carolina Here's a "goodie". In 2001 I sold a piece of property to a "then" fiance. I had obtained the home in my divorce proceedings the prior year and was given a year to get the home financed soley in my name. I could not qualify for financing, but my...

Whoa is this getting WILD - Now we have FRAUD! Well, I did go see an attorney - According to him, we definetly have grounds for a lawsuit but there is a bigger issue at stake and that is a FRAUD case against the lawyer that closed the deal. According to the attorney I just hired, the lawyer...