Divorce & Family Attorneys in Columbia SC
Divorce & Family Law
We provide solution based legal services, from consulting on your pre-divorce concerns, mediation, and post-divorce transition management. With your first consultation, we seek information specific to your financial and emotional needs to help create the best resolutions for your legal situation.
Every case is different, and we will help formulate creative options, provide financial analysis of assets and debts, and develop the strategies necessary to help our clients make rational and informed decisions with the goal of achieving the most advantageous financial settlement possible during the divorce process.
While the divorce process is stressful, we are mindful that the client has to live with the result for a long time to come. So we want to get it right. We are knowledgeable in areas involving military divorce, including division military retirement benefits as well as post-divorce benefits.
We offer a wide range of payment options to help our clients, including Affirm financing via Client Credit.
Looking for experienced divorce attorneys and lawyers? We provide expert legal services for divorce cases in Columbia, Lexington, Irmo, Winnsboro, Camden, Newberry, Blythewood, Greenville, Aiken, Ballentine, Chapin, Forest Acres, Hopkins, Eastover, Cayce, and West Columbia. Contact us today for a consultation with a trusted divorce attorney or lawyer to support you through this challenging process.
Call 803-929-0577 to discuss your case today to determine your rights and to discuss how the divorce laws affect the specific details of your case.
Divorce & Family Law
Divorce Frequently Asked Questions:
Alimony or spousal support is not an automatic right in South Carolina despite the reasons for divorce. The court considers the length of the marriage, the fault in the marriage, the educational background and work experience of the spouses, income of the spouses and any other specifics of the marriage itself.
South Carolina family courts are considered courts of equity and the judge makes every effort to equitably divide marital assets and debts. However, as a general rule, courts start at a 50/50 division of all assets considered marital in nature and work from there if the circumstances of the divorce justify a deviation from that split.
One Year Separation (also called No Fault Divorce), Adultery, Physical Cruelty, Habitual Drunkenness, and Abandonment.
As a general rule there is no legal benefit or judicial preference by filing first, however filing first sometimes benefits because the filer has had more time to prepare for the divorce.
South Carolina does not require a spouse’s signature to obtain a divorce. However, providing notice of the divorce proceedings is required in South Carolina. There are multiple ways to do that.
In a A non-military spouse may receive a portion of military retirement benefits, Thrift Savings Plan, GI bill, commissary, insurance benefits, etc. depending on the benefits available to the military spouse.
It is considered adultery to date while married before a written separation order/agreement is signed by a judge. A spouse found guilty of adultery can’t receive alimony/spousal support. Even then, it could still affect the outcome of your divorce to date until the divorce is finalized.
Judges use the South Carolina Child Support guidelines to calculate child support using the income of the parties, prior child support obligations, health insurance and child care expenses.