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Restraining Orders

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Updated: 
November 13, 2023

In which county do I file for a permanent restraining order?

If you are filing in the General Sessions Court, you will be filing in the court that issued the criminal conviction upon which the permanent restraining order petition is based. If you file in the Court of Common Pleas, you must file in any of the following counties:

  1. the county where the respondent lives;
  2. the county where the criminal offense occurred; or
  3. the county where the you live but only if the respondent doesn’t live in the state or cannot be found.1

​1 S.C. Code §16-3-1920(B)