Court Opinion

ID: 9781162
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-30 16:17:55.601015+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:10:35.579136
License: Public Domain

PIEPER, J.,
concurring.
I concur in the decision to remand this case to the family court. However, I would specifically find that the posture of this bifurcated case does not warrant the application of equitable tolling to the court-imposed time period ordered by the family court. Instead, I would remand to allow the family court to make findings as to whether Wife has shown sufficient cause to extend the original court-imposed time period in which to pursue her claim for alimony. See Rule 6(b), SCRCP (permitting the enlargement of time within the court’s discretion “upon motion made after the expiration of the specified period, for good cause shown, to permit the act to be done.”); Rule 2(a), SCRFC (not exempting Rule 6, SCRCP, from family court proceedings). Moreover, a remand is appropriate because the family court employed a stricter equitable tolling analysis to the request, as opposed to a more liberal Rule 6 analysis.