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Attorney Nick Mermiges has recorded informational videos and written detailed articles on issues that frequently arise during the family court process in South Carolina.
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Child Custody · ArticleNew
Can I Get an Emergency Custody Order in South Carolina?
When a child's safety is at stake, the family court can act within days, and sometimes the same day. Here is the standard for ex parte and expedited relief, and the situations that meet it.
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Discovery & Evidence · ArticleNew
Can I Use My Spouse's Text Messages Against Them — and Can They Use Mine?
Text messages are often the most persuasive evidence in a South Carolina divorce or custody case. Whether they help you or destroy you depends on two things: how you got them, and how...
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Modification & Enforcement · ArticleNew
How Do I Change Custody or Child Support After the Final Order?
A final order is final — until someone proves a substantial change in circumstances. Here is what that phrase actually means, what tends to qualify, and how modification cases are won and lost.
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Modification & Enforcement · ArticleNew
My Ex Isn't Following Our Court Order or Agreement. What Can I Do?
A family court order is enforceable — but only through the court, only if the violation was willful, and only if the order was actually entered. Here is how enforcement works, and what...
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Discovery & Evidence · ArticleNew
My Spouse Won't Turn Over Documents: How Discovery Enforcement Works in South Carolina Family Court
When a spouse ignores discovery in a South Carolina divorce or custody case, the rules give the judge a ladder — a good-faith letter, a motion to compel, and fee awards that are the...
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Property Division · ArticleNew
Who Gets the Business? Who Gets the Retirement? Dividing Complex Assets in a South Carolina Divorce
The name on the account decides almost nothing. What decides the outcome is a date, a distinction between two kinds of growth, and the difference between a business's value and its...
May 2026
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Military Families · White paper
Chapter 61 Disability Retirement, CRDP, and Divorce: A Recent DoD Reversal That Restores What Many Military Spouses Lost
The Department of Defense's February 2026 revision to its Financial Management Regulation materially changes the division of military retired pay for Chapter 61 medical retirees who...
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Child Custody · White paper
Grandparents' Rights to Visitation and Custody in South Carolina
What happens when grandparents have raised a grandchild for months or years and a biological parent wants them back — or when a divorce suddenly cuts grandparents off from visitation?
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Property Division · White paper
High Asset & Complex Divorces in South Carolina
When one spouse controls the money, the other can be left in the dark. The recurring issues in high-asset divorces — and what a prepared attorney looks for.
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Property Division · White paper
Prenuptial Agreements in South Carolina: Scope and Proper Execution
South Carolina has no statute that comprehensively governs prenups. What can be bargained away, and what does it take to execute an agreement that will hold up?
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