DSS Case Defense
At May River Family Law Solutions, we understand the difficulties and frustration surrounding DSS initiated Family Court proceedings. Our representation provides you with guidance and support throughout this transitional period of your life to help you feel confident and secure.
Experienced DSS Case Defense Attorney
Our DSS (South Carolina Department of Social Services; some other states refer to their corresponding agency as Child Protective Services or “CPS”) case defense practice is dedicated to advising and representing individuals in South Carolina’s Family Courts in the 14th Circuit, specifically Beaufort County Family Court, Jasper County Family Court, Allendale County Family Court, Colleton County Family Court, and Hampton County Family Court. We have extensive experience in this area. Attorney Dustin Lee has handled well over one-hundred (100) South Carolina DSS initiated family law matters (individual cases brought in Family Court) since 2008, when the firm was founded, amounting to over five-hundred (500) individual hearings involving DSS in Family Court. Dustin Lee, Esq. is personally involved in handling our clients’ DSS initiated Family Court matters. Dustin has taught other lawyers at trainings how to defend these cases. Dustin is a former South Carolina Municipal Court Judge (Bluffton, SC).
Ready for your initial consultation? Contact our Bluffton, South Carolina, based DSS case defense law firm today at 1-843-474-0614 (You Must Dial the “1” First).
Individuals in Hilton Head Island, Bluffton, Beaufort, and throughout South Carolina’s Lowcountry can rely on our years of experience fighting the South Carolina Department of Social Services in Family Court.
We have experience in the following DSS case defense areas:
-Child Protective Investigations
-Abuse and Neglect
-Sexual Abuse
-“Fair Hearings” Appeals
-Physical Abuse
-Excessive Corporal Punishment
-Abandonment of a Child
-Emergency Protective Custody
-Daycare child abuse or neglect
-Termination of Parental Rights
Personalized Solutions
May River Family Law Solutions helps you hold on to what you cherish most. When you are faced with the removal of your child, children or step-children by the Department of Social Services, you need an experienced attorney fighting for you.
We also have experience through decision (in contested hearings) defending licensed and regulated child care professionals such as day care owners and staff. These hearings normally occur in Columbia, SC.
What to Expect
Our DSS case defense attorney, Dustin Lee, is dedicated to providing the highest level of service and professional representation in family law matters. We have assembled a compassionate and competent legal team to effectively represent you throughout the process in an effort to keep your family together.
Consultation Approach – We utilize an approach that begins with a detailed initial consultation to review client and attorney expectations, answer your questions, and offer general advice regarding South Carolina law. Should our firm and you decide to work together, we will then gather and review additional detailed facts and information outlining personal and financial information regarding your situation, and thereafter discuss how we may best help you accomplish your goals.
Proven Methodology – We strive to provide and utilize a mixture of creative, intellectual, persuasive, and technical approaches to DSS defense matters.
Experience – We strive to provide dedicated and compassionate individual attention to each and every case.
Settlement and Litigation – We offer a strong emphasis on settlement, when possible. When necessary, we further provide effective representation throughout the litigation process in the trial courts of South Carolina. We have contested trial experience in South Carolina Family Court DSS matters through verdict, including through multiple day trials involving expert witnesses.
Wondering if we handle matters “like yours”? Here are some more examples of matters we assist with.
Contact our DSS Family Court defense office in Bluffton, South Carolina, now for the effective representation you need and deserve to resolve your legal issues.
-If you have been contacted by DSS in South Carolina, and are worried about “saying the wrong thing”, what options you may have, what may happen next, minimizing or mitigating your risks, or have other general questions or anxiety, we routinely assist in these matters.
-We are frequently brought in when DSS becomes involved in already pending private Family Court actions – we are grateful that many top family law and criminal law attorneys in the area refer their clients to us to assist their clients in these matters. In many way, DSS defense is a sub-area (niche practice) of family law that not many traditional practitioners handle – we handle these cases daily.
-If you have received a Determination Letter (Determination Fact Sheet) and have questions or concerns about your rights, we handle these types of consultations throughout the entire State of South Carolina routinely.
-If you have had an adverse ruling in a Family Court case, we may be able to assist in representing you in an Appeal to a higher Court. There are exceptionally strict time-constraints involved with appeals (if you do not file within a certain time, you lose your right to appeal – this is jurisdictional), so do not delay in calling for help (even if you are calling another firm and just reading our site for informational purposes).
-If you have received a letter from DSS indicating you can request a “FAIR HEARING” (in Columbia, South Carolina) to appeal an indicated matter, we handle these throughout the entire State of South Carolina.
May River Family Law Solutions is able to help you through the rigorous process of battling the South Carolina Department of Social Services. Please contact us with your legal concerns by telephone. With our services at your disposal, you can rest assured that your legal issues will be dealt with timely and effectively, and handled by an experienced professional.