LEXINGTON, S.C. (WIS) – South Carolina’s Chief Justice John Kittredge described the state’s family court system as a “crisis.”
In an effort to change that and alleviate the backlog, Kittredge requested an annual $1.8 million from the state budget for three new family court judges. The money would help pay for the new family court judges in Berkeley, Beaufort and Lexington counties.
Kittredge said those counties are seeing dramatic population growth, leading to backlogs in the system…