Checklist of Expenses

Home mortgage payments (specify whether the amount includes taxes and insurance)
Second mortgage and/or home equity loan
Real property insurance
Real property taxes
Homeowner's association fees
Condominium fees
Regime fees
Routine home maintenance costs
- Lawn care (including spring/fall cleanup and tree trimming)
- Snow removal
- Window cleaning
- Garbage collection
- Exterminator costs
Periodic major home maintenance costs
- Painting
- Roof and sidewalk repairs
- Appliance repair/replacement
- Furniture replacement
Water softener costs
Rent
Furniture rental
Renter's insurance
Maintenance to rented property
Food (not restaurant meals) and household supplies
Utilities
- Gas
- Oil
- Electricity
- Water
Telephone
- Car
- Home
Dry cleaning
Housekeeping/cleaning service (how often?)
Clothing
Uninsured medical and dental fees (indicate deductible and copayment percentage)
- Prescription costs
- Counseling
Insurance
- Life
- Disability
Child care expenses
- Day-care costs
- Baby-sitter costs
Visitation expenses
- Long-distance telephone calls
- Transportation costs
- Entertainment costs
- Meal costs
- Other
Support payments required by prior decree
School expenses for client and/or children
- Tuition
- Books and supplies
- Transportation
- Parking
- Lab fees
- Activity fees
- Meal costs
- Field trips
- Uniforms
- Other
Entertainment
- Movies and videotapes
- Cable television access
- Concerts and plays
- Dining out
- In-home entertaining
- Tickets to sporting events
- Participation in sports
Children's summer activities (camp, etc.)
Children's lessons
- Dance, music, sports, etc.
- Religious school
Children's allowances
Children's tutoring
Automobile
- Gas
- Maintenance and repairs
- Auto club dues
- Tolls and parking fees
- Registration fees
- Depreciation
- Installment/lease payments
- South Carolina property tax
Other transportation costs (train pass, bus pass, etc.)
Gifts (birthdays, holidays, etc.)
Donations
- Personal donations
- Donations related to employment
- Church contributions
Installment payments due (name of each creditor, balance owed, payment amount, and due date)
Incidentals
- Grooming/hair care
- Newspapers, magazines, books
- Hobbies
- Tobacco products
- Batteries
- Stamps
- Late payment charges
- Income tax
- Interest on charge accounts
Pet care
Vacations
Membership dues
- Professional
- Civic
- Social
- Fitness
- Lessons
Retirement fund
- IRA contribution
- Other
Professional services
- Accounting
- Tax preparation
- Legal
Other expenses

November 2007

$18.99

978-1-59629-316-8

Trade Paper

160 pages

22 black and white photographs

Straight Talk about South Carolina Divorce Law

Robert N. Rosen

Straight Talk about South Carolina Divorce Law is a clearand detailed guide to how divorce and family law cases areactually handled and resolved in South Carolina. It is a practicaland realistic overview of how lawyers, experts, and mediatorsoperate, and how Family Court judges decide what happens in divorce, custody, and matrimonial cases.

It includes descriptions-written in layman's language-of the laws governing divorce, key points to consider for anyone involved in a matrimonial dispute in South Carolina, and essential information for people getting divorced or those involved in custody, separation, or marital litigation.

Office Location:

Rosen Law Firm, LLC The Peoples Building 18 Broad Street, Suite 201 - Charleston, South Carolina 29401 - Phone: 1-843-377-1700 Fax: 1-843-377-1709 - e-mail us

The Rosen Law Firm, LLC represents injured people throughout the State of South Carolina and family law clients in Charleston, the Tri-County area, Upstate, Midland, the Low Country, and along the East Coast of South Carolina. Other areas we serve include cities such as Summerville, Goose Creek, , Mount Pleasant, Beaufort, Bluffton, Hilton Head, Myrtle Beach, Georgetown, Walterboro, Moncks Corner, Florence, Greenwood, Aiken, Rock Hill, Sumter, Greenville, Columbia, Richland, Georgetown, Lexington, Spartanburg, and North Augusta, and counties such as Charleston County, Beaufort, Dorchester, Berkeley, Georgetown, Horry, Colleton, Florence, Orangeburg, Greenville, Richland, and Aiken counties.

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