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updated 4 SC RO questions

January 2021

We updated the following questions in our South Carolina Orders of Protection section to reflect the 2017 South Carolina Supreme Court decision that said requiring cohabitating couples to be of the opposite sex was unconstitutional as applied:

In addition, we added information about having to serve the respondent at least five days before the hearing in Step 4: Service of process.

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South Carolina

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Summary: 

We updated the following questions in our South Carolina Orders of Protection section to reflect the 2017 South Carolina Supreme Court decision that said requiring cohabitating couples to be of the opposite sex was unconstitutional as applied:

In addition, we added information about having to serve the respondent at least five days before the hearing in Step 4: Service of process.

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