Firm Information:
Taylor/Potterfield, Attorneys
2303 Devine Street
Columbia, South Carolina 29205

Phone: (803) 376-2001
Fax: (803) 376-8856
Email: jmichaeltaylor01@bellsouth.net

Areas of Practice: Statewide trial and appellate divorce cases including interstate and international custody, property, alimony and jurisdictional disputes.

Professional:
■ Admitted to South Carolina Bar November, 1980
■ U.S. District Court District of South Carolina, 1981

Education:
■ Juris Doctor, University of South Carolina, 1980
■ B.A in History, magna cum laude, University of South Carolina 1977 (Phi Beta Kappa).

Organizations:
■ Fellow, American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers
■ American Bar Association Family Law Section
■ South Carolina Bar Family Law Section
■ Richland County Bar Association.
■ A-V rated by Martindale-Hubble

Publications:
■ Primary Author and Chairman of "Divorce", 13 South Carolina Jurisprudence 63 (1992)
■ Co-Author of "Adultery and Fornication", 3 South Carolina Jurisprudence) 1 (1991)
■ Editor, Stuckey, Marital Litigation in South Carolina (SC Bar-CLE, 1 st Ed.1993; 3 rd Ed. 2001; 4th Ed. 2010)
■ Editor, Civil Trial Manual (SC Bar-CLE, 1997)
■ Editor, Collins, South Carolina Evidence (SC Bar-CLE, 1995) and
■ Editor, Duncan and McKay, Business Valuations for Lawyers (SC Bar-CLE, 1991)

Periodicals:
■ South Carolina Reporter for the American Bar Association "Law in Fifty States" project (1990 to 2010)
■ South Carolina Reporter for the BNA Family Law Reports (1989)
■ Editor of the South Carolina Bar Family Law Section Newsletter (1985-89)
■ Contributor to various periodicals including Matrimonial Strategist, ABA Family Law Advocate, seminars and CLE Conferences
■ South Carolina Lawyer, July 2011 issue entitled “The Law of Relocation in Family Court.”

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