South Carolina alimony calculator

South Carolina alimony eligibility

South Carolina law contains an adultery bar that can prevent an alimony award.

South Carolina Code §20-3-130 states that no alimony may be awarded to a spouse who commits adultery before the earlier of the formal signing of a written property or marital settlement agreement or entry of the specified permanent order. [1]

The calculator does not ask the visitor to decide whether adultery occurred or whether the statutory cutoff was reached. Those are factual and legal questions, not reliable calculator inputs.

South Carolina alimony types

South Carolina law recognizes several forms of alimony, and their termination rules are different.

Section 20-3-130 lists periodic alimony, lump-sum alimony, rehabilitative alimony, reimbursement alimony, separate maintenance and support, and other support the court considers just. Periodic, rehabilitative, reimbursement, and separate-maintenance awards have different rules for remarriage, continued cohabitation, death, modification, and specific future events. [1]

For periodic alimony and several other forms, “continued cohabitation” generally means living with another person in a romantic relationship for 90 or more consecutive days, with an anti-circumvention rule for shorter recurring periods. [1]

South Carolina alimony amount

South Carolina courts decide alimony amount and duration from statutory factors, not one statewide percentage formula.

The statute directs courts to consider marriage length, age, physical and emotional condition, education, training needs, employment history, earning potential, marital standard of living, current and expected earnings, expenses and needs, property, child custody circumstances, marital misconduct, tax consequences, existing support obligations, and other relevant factors. [1]