Ad Litem are persons appointed by the court to represent “the child's best interests†in court proceedings. The guardian ad litem is often an attorney. However, anyone who meets the private guardian ad litem statute (S.C. Code Ann. § 63-3-810, et. seq) can be a guardian in private custody and visitation cases. Because the guardian is an advocate for the child’s best interests, the guardian is empowered to bring motions to modify custody or visitation or to add what the guardian believes are necessary restraints on the parents’ activities to protect the child from a parent’s dangerous behavior.
In 1990, Jackie married Doug Busbee of Wagener, SC, and began practicing law in Aiken, SC. Jackie spent six years focusing on real estate transactions, residential and commercial and gained quite a bit of experience in business formation. In addition to these areas, Jackie developed a great deal of experience in personal law, such as wills and general estate planning.
Estate planning is the process of anticipating and arranging for the disposal of an estate during your life. Estate planning typically attempts to eliminate uncertainties over the administration of a probate and maximize the estate's value by reducing taxes and other expenses. Guardians are often designated for minor children and beneficiaries in incapacity.
Wills
Probate is the court-supervised process of locating and determining the value of the assets owned in the individual name of a deceased person, referred to as a "decedent," paying the decedent's final bills and estate taxes and/or inheritance taxes (if any), and then distributing what's left of the decedent's assets to his or her heirs.
Trusts
We help with several different elements of estate planning, such as wills, living wills, simple living trusts, and more.