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SC Code § 20-3-235 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 20 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 3 - Divorce|Section 20-3-235. Decree to set forth social security numbers or alien identification numbers of parties in divorce.

 A decree of divorce shall set forth the social security numbers, or the alien identification numbers assigned to resident aliens who do not have social security numbers, of the parties in the divorce. Filing the required form with the Department of Health and Environmental Control complies with the requirements of this section.  HISTORY: 1997 Act No. 71, Section 1, eff June 10, 1997; 1999 Act No. 100, Part II, Section 105, eff June 30, 1999.  Editor's Note  The Preamble of 1997 Act No. 71 provides as follows:  "Whereas, it is the sense of Congress that all states shall have in effect certain laws relative to the enforcement of child support in order to remain eligible for federal funding under Title IV-D of the Social Security Act. Therefore, this act amends the Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1976, to, among other things, require the collection and use of social security numbers on certain state-issued documents and applications; to provide authority for the imposition of administrative liens in child support cases; to enhance the information requirements of the parties to a paternity or child support action; to enhance procedures establishing paternity; to conform the state's Uniform Interstate Family Support Act (UIFSA) to changes made by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws; to enhance income withholding; to provide authority for the Department of Social Services to administratively change the payee in Title IV-D child support cases; to provide authority for the issuance and enforcement of administrative subpoenas; to enhance the ability to void conveyances fraudulently conducted for purposes of avoiding payment of a child support obligation; to eliminate the payment of a child support disregard check in accordance with the elimination of federal financial participation in the same; to require employers, state and local agencies, financial institutions, and utility companies to provide certain information necessary for the establishment or enforcement of child support obligations; to establish a mandatory new hire reporting program; and to establish a state registry of child support cases."
SC Code § 20-3-410 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 20 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 3 - Divorce|Section 20-3-410. Short title.

 This article may be cited as the "Uniform Divorce Recognition Act."  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 20-131; 1952 Code Section 20-131; 1950 (46) 2390.
SC Code § 20-3-420 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 20 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 3 - Divorce|Section 20-3-420. Nonresident divorce shall be void if parties were domiciled here.

 A divorce from the bonds of matrimony obtained in another jurisdiction shall be of no force or effect in this State if both parties to the marriage were domiciled in this State at the time the proceeding for the divorce was commenced.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 20-132; 1952 Code Section 20-132; 1950 (46) 2390.
SC Code § 20-3-430 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 20 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 3 - Divorce|Section 20-3-430. Prima facie evidence of domicile.

 Proof that a person obtaining a divorce from the bonds of matrimony in another jurisdiction was (a) domiciled in this State within twelve months prior to the commencement of the proceeding therefor and resumed residence in this State within eighteen months after the date of his departure therefrom or (b) at all times after his departure from this State and until his return maintained a place of residence within this State shall be prima facie evidence that the person was domiciled in this State when the divorce proceeding was commenced. But the provisions of this section shall not apply in cases of divorce when the decree of divorce was issued prior to June 3, 1950.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 20-133; 1952 Code Section 20-133; 1950 (46) 2390.
SC Code § 20-3-440 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 20 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 3 - Divorce|Section 20-3-440. Construction.

 This article shall be so interpreted and construed as to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law of those states which enact substantially identical legislation.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 20-134; 1952 Code Section 20-134; 1950 (46) 2390.
SC Code § 20-3-610 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 20 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 3 - Divorce|Section 20-3-610. Spousal equity and ownership rights.

 During the marriage a spouse shall acquire, based upon the factors set out in Section 20-3-620, a vested special equity and ownership right in the marital property as defined in Section 20-3-630, which equity and ownership right are subject to apportionment between the spouses by the family courts of this State at the time marital litigation is filed or commenced as provided in Section 20-3-620.  HISTORY: 2008 Act No. 361, Section 3, eff June 16, 2008.  Editor's Note  Prior laws. 1986 Act No. 522 Section 1; 1976 Code Section 20-7-471.
SC Code § 20-3-630 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 20 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 3 - Divorce|Section 20-3-630. Marital property; nonmarital property.

 (A) The term "marital property" as used in this article means all real and personal property which has been acquired by the parties during the marriage and which is owned as of the date of filing or commencement of marital litigation as provided in Section 20-3-620 regardless of how legal title is held, except the following, which constitute nonmarital property:  (1) property acquired by either party by inheritance, devise, bequest, or gift from a party other than the spouse;  (2) property acquired by either party before the marriage and property acquired after the happening of the earliest of:  (a) entry of a pendente lite order in a divorce or separate maintenance action;  (b) formal signing of a written property or marital settlement agreement; or  (c) entry of a permanent order of separate maintenance and support or of a permanent order approving a property or marital settlement agreement between the parties;  (3) property acquired by either party in exchange for property described in items (1) and (2) of this section;  (4) property excluded by written contract of the parties. "Written contract" includes any antenuptial agreement of the parties which must be considered presumptively fair and equitable so long as it was voluntarily executed with both parties separately represented by counsel and pursuant to the full financial disclosure to each other that is mandated by the rules of the family court as to income, debts, and assets;  (5) any increase in value in nonmarital property, except to the extent that the increase resulted directly or indirectly from efforts of the other spouse during marriage.  Interspousal gifts of property, including gifts of property from one spouse to the other made indirectly by way of a third party, are marital property which is subject to division.  (B) The court does not have jurisdiction or authority to apportion nonmarital property.  HISTORY: 2008 Act No. 361, Section 3, eff June 16, 2008.  Editor's Note  Prior laws. 1986 Act No. 522 Section 1; 1976 Code Section 20-7-473.
SC Code § 20-3-640 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 20 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 3 - Divorce|Section 20-3-640. Declining values of contributions.

 In determining the value of contributions prior to making an equitable apportionment, the court:  (1) shall make findings of fact from credible evidence of the values of property and services, if any;  (2) is empowered to take judicial notice of official reports of the federal and state governments, including official bulletins, publications, and reports of general public interest where these reports are made and published by authority of law or have been adopted by state statute;  (3) has the authority to appoint experts as necessary for the purpose of valuation of property and contributions and to assess the cost against any or all parties to the action.  HISTORY: 2008 Act No. 361, Section 3, eff June 16, 2008.  Editor's Note  Prior laws. 1986 Act No. 522 Section 1; 1976 Code Section 20-7-474.
SC Code § 20-3-650 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 20 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 3 - Divorce|Section 20-3-650. Sequestration of property.

 (A) At any stage of a proceeding under this article where it appears to the court that personal jurisdiction may not be obtained over an absent party or where a party refuses to comply with an order of the court, the court may, upon appropriate petition, order the sequestration of that party's real and personal property which is within this State. The court may also appoint a sequestrator and, by injunction or otherwise, authorize the sequestrator to take the property into possession and control. In the case of an absent party, the court may appoint the party residing in this State as sequestator.  (B) The property sequestered and the income from it may be applied in whole or in part, at the direction of the court and as justice may require, so as to achieve an equitable apportionment of property as set forth in this article.  (C) Additionally, the court, in its discretion, if the property and income from it which may be sequestered is insufficient to pay what is required, may, upon terms and conditions as it considers in the interests of justice, direct the mortgaging of or the public or private sale of a sufficient amount of the sequestered property to pay what is required.  (D) The family court in which the action is filed has jurisdiction and venue to sequester property located within this State.  (E) The remedies in this section are cumulative to all other remedies which may be available to the parties.  HISTORY: 2008 Act No. 361, Section 3, eff June 16, 2008.  Editor's Note  Prior laws. 1986 Act No. 522 Section 1; 1976 Code Section 20-7-475.
SC Code § 20-3-660 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 20 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 3 - Divorce|Section 20-3-660. Court's authority to achieve equitable apportionment.

 (A) The court may direct a party to execute and deliver any deed, bill of sale, note, mortgage, or other document necessary to carry out its order of equitable apportionment. If a party so directed fails to comply, the court may direct the clerk of court in the county in which the property involved is situate to execute and deliver the document, and this performance by the clerk is as effective as the performance of the party would have been. The court in making an equitable apportionment may order the public or private sale of all or any portion of the marital property upon terms it determines.  (B) The court may utilize any other reasonable means to achieve equity between the parties, which means are subject to and may not be inconsistent with the other provisions of this article and may include making a monetary award to achieve an equitable apportionment. Any monetary award made does not constitute a payment which is treated as ordinary income to the recipient under either the provisions of Chapter 6, Title 12 or, to the extent lawful, under the United States Internal Revenue Code.  HISTORY: 2008 Act 361, Section 3, eff June 16, 2008.  Editor's Note  Prior laws. 1986 Act No. 522 Section 1; 1976 Code Section 20-7-476.
SC Code § 20-3-670 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 20 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 3 - Divorce|Section 20-3-670. Notice of pendency of action.

 (A)(1) In a proceeding under this article, either party may record a notice of the pendency of proceedings in the manner provided in civil actions generally, which has the same effect as a notice in civil actions. The rights and interests of each spouse in the other's property created by this article are not effective against third parties:  (a) with regard to any parcel of real property in which an interest under this article is claimed until a Notice of Pendency of Action is filed as provided in Section 15-11-10 with the clerk of court of the county in which such parcel of real property is situated; and  (b) with regard to personal property, until the third party has received written notice from either spouse in a proceeding under this article that marital litigation has been filed.  (2) Prior rights and interests of third parties:  (a) in real property are not affected by filing a Notice of Pendency of Action; and  (b) in personal property are not affected by receipt of written notice of such a filing.  (B)(1) Upon entry of judgment against a party requiring payment of money or transfer of property, whether by interlocutory order or final decree, a party may apply to the court for issuance of a transcript of judgment in the form prescribed in Section 20-3-680. This transcript may be recorded in the office of the clerk of court of common pleas and indexed in the books of abstracts of judgments of any county of this State as provided by law.  (2) After the order or decree has been duly recorded and indexed in the office of the clerk of court of common pleas, the order or decree has all force and effect of judgments of the courts of common pleas as provided by law, the recording and indexing constituting record notice to all persons of the order or decree recorded and indexed.  (3) The recordation and filing of a transcript of judgment does not prevent the court from exercising any equitable or other presently existing power of enforcement of the order or decree which is within its jurisdiction.  (C) The statutory lien created by Section 20-3-145 is not effective as against third parties unless this section has been complied with.  HISTORY: 2008 Act No. 361, Section 3, eff June 16, 2008.  Editor's Note  Prior laws. 1986 Act No. 522 Section 1; 1987 Act No. 14 Section 2; 1976 Code Section 20-7-477.
SC Code § 20-3-680 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 20 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 3 - Divorce|Section 20-3-680. Form of transcript of judgment.

 A transcript of judgment may be substantially in the following form:  STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF IN THE FAMILY COURT , Petitioner, vs. , TRANSCRIPT OF JUDGMENT Respondent.   NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that in the above-captioned proceeding, (family court docket # of proceeding or domestic judgment #), filed in the family court of the State and county aforesaid, judgment was entered against __________, the _________ in the action, on the ___ day of __________, 20__, [in the amount of __________, as and by reason of (an award of attorney's fees, equitable division of property, etc.)] OR (requiring conveyance to __________ of the real property described as following:) Attorneys of record are __________, representing the petitioner and __________, representing the respondent.  FURTHER NOTICE IS GIVEN that interest will accrue at the statutory rate from the ___ day of ___________, 20__, together with costs in the amount of __________.  Judge of the Family Court place date .   HISTORY: 2008 Act No. 361, Section 3, eff June 16, 2008.  Editor's Note  Prior laws. 1986 Act No. 522 Section 1; 1976 Code Section 20-7-478.
SC Code § 20-3-690 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 20 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 3 - Divorce|Section 20-3-690. Subject matter jurisdiction over contracts.

 The family courts of this State have subject matter jurisdiction over all contracts relating to property which is involved in a proceeding under this article and over the construction and enforcement of those contracts.  HISTORY: 2008 Act No. 361, Section 3, eff June 16, 2008.  Editor's Note  Prior laws. 1986 Act No. 522 Section 1; 1976 Code Section 20-7-479.
SC Code § 20-4-10 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 20 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 4 - Protection From Domestic Abuse|Section 20-4-10. Short title.

 This chapter may be cited as the "Protection from Domestic Abuse Act".  HISTORY: 1984 Act No. 484, Section 2.
SC Code § 20-4-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 20 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 4 - Protection From Domestic Abuse|Section 20-4-20. Definitions.

 As used in this chapter:  (a) "Abuse" means:  (1) physical harm, bodily injury, assault, or the threat of physical harm;  (2) sexual criminal offenses, as otherwise defined by statute, committed against a family or household member by a family or household member.  For validity of (b), see Editors' Notes below.  (b) "Household member" means:  (i) a spouse;  (ii) a former spouse;  (iii) persons who have a child in common;  (iv) a male and female who are cohabiting or formerly have cohabited.  (c) "Court" means the Family Court.  (d) "Petitioner" means the person alleging abuse in a petition for an order of protection.  (e) "Respondent" in a petition for an order of protection means the person alleged to have abused another or a person alleged to have aided and abetted such abuse.  (f) "Order of protection" means an order of protection issued to protect the petitioner or minor household members from the abuse of another household member where the respondent has received notice of the proceedings and has had an opportunity to be heard.  HISTORY: 1984 Act No. 484, Section 2; 1994 Act No. 519, Sections 2, 3, eff September 23, 1994; 2003 Act No. 92, Section 11, eff January 1, 2004; 2005 Act No. 166, Section 7, eff January 1, 2006.  Validity  For validity of (b) of this section, see Jane Doe v. State of South Carolina, 421 S.C. 490, 808 S.E.2d 807 (2017), rehearing granted (Nov. 17, 2017).
SC Code § 20-4-30 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 20 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 4 - Protection From Domestic Abuse|Section 20-4-30. Jurisdiction.

 (A) The family court has jurisdiction over all proceedings under this chapter except that, during nonbusiness hours or at other times when the court is not in session, the petition may be filed with a magistrate. The magistrate may issue an order of protection granting only the relief provided by Section 20-4-60(a)(1).  (B) Except as provided in subsection (C), actions for an order of protection must be filed in the county in which:  (1) the alleged act of abuse occurred;  (2) the petitioner resides or is sheltered, unless the petitioner is a nonresident of the State;  (3) the respondent resides, unless the respondent is a nonresident of the State; or  (4) the parties last resided together.  (C)(1) If the action is filed in the county in which the petitioner resides or is sheltered and the respondent is a nonresident of that county, the petitioner must request that the action be immediately transferred to another county in which venue is proper and must include a supplemental petition that designates the transfer county and that changes all specific references to the county of filing to the transfer county. The clerk of court must transfer and forward the supplemental petition to the transfer county.  (2) If the petitioner is a nonresident of the State, the action must be filed in the county specified in item (1), (3), or (4) of subsection (B).  (3) If the respondent is a nonresident of the State, the petitioner may request that the action be immediately transferred to another county in which venue is proper and must include a supplemental petition that designates the transfer county and that changes all specific references to the county of filing to the transfer county. The clerk of court must transfer and forward the supplemental petition to the transfer county.  (D) Hearings on the petition may be held in any county in the same judicial circuit as the county in which the action is filed or to which the action is transferred.  HISTORY: 1984 Act No. 484, Section 2; 2002 Act No. 329, Section 1, eff June 18, 2002.
SC Code § 20-4-40 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 20 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 4 - Protection From Domestic Abuse|Section 20-4-40. Petition for order of protection.

 There is created an action known as a "Petition for an Order of Protection" in cases of abuse to a household member.  (a) A petition for relief under this section may be made by any household members in need of protection or by any household members on behalf of minor household members.  (b) A petition for relief must allege the existence of abuse to a household member. It must state the specific time, place, details of the abuse, and other facts and circumstances upon which relief is sought and must be verified.  (c) The petition must inform the respondent of the right to retain counsel.  (d) In a pending action for divorce or separate support and maintenance, the petition for relief shall be brought in the form of a motion for further relief and shall be served on counsel of record, if any. Where no action is pending, the petition shall be filed and served as an independent action. A pending motion or petition for relief shall not be dismissed solely because the underlying action is dismissed.  (e) The clerk of court must provide simplified forms which will facilitate the preparation and filing of a petition under this section by any person not represented by counsel, including motions and affidavits to proceed in forma pauperis.  (f) The clerk of court may not charge a fee for filing a petition for an order for protection from domestic abuse.  HISTORY: 1984 Act No. 484, Section 2; 1994 Act No. 519, Section 4, eff September 23, 1994; 1996 Act No. 396, Section 1, eff June 4, 1996; 2005 Act No. 166, Section 8, eff January 1, 2006.
SC Code § 20-4-50 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 20 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 4 - Protection From Domestic Abuse|Section 20-4-50. Hearing on petition.

 (a) Within twenty-four hours after service of a petition under this chapter upon the respondent, the court may, for good cause shown, hold an emergency hearing and issue an order of protection if the petitioner proves the allegation of abuse by a preponderance of the evidence. A prima facie showing of immediate and present danger of bodily injury, which may be verified by supporting affidavits, constitutes good cause for purposes of this section.  (b) If the court denies the motion for a twenty-four-hour hearing or such a hearing is not requested, the petitioner may request and the court must grant a hearing within fifteen days of the filing of a petition. The court must cause a copy of the petition to be served upon the respondent at least five days prior to the hearing, except as provided in subsection (a), in the same manner required for service in the circuit courts. Where service is not accomplished five days prior to the hearing, the respondent, upon his motion, is entitled to a continuance until such time is necessary to provide for compliance with this section.  HISTORY: 1984 Act No. 484, Section 2; 2002 Act No. 329, Section 2, eff June 18, 2002.
SC Code § 20-4-65 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 20 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 4 - Protection From Domestic Abuse|Section 20-4-65. Order of protection from domestic abuse; filing fee.

 A person seeking an order of protection from domestic abuse pursuant to the provisions of this chapter is not required to pay the filing fee as provided in Section 8-21-310(C)(1).  HISTORY: 2005 Act No. 166, Section 9, eff January 1, 2006.