Welcome to South Carolina Divorce Magazine section. Here you will find useful divorce information, articles, local family lawyers, divorce mediators, divorce financial analysts, accountants, therapists and other divorce professionals, websites, products and services that will help you with your separation and divorce. You will also find information on South Carolina family law, how to choose a divorce lawyer, grounds for divorce, divorce statistics, custody, financial advice, legal advice, single parenting, dating and more.

A divorce may be granted in South Carolina for any of the following grounds:

1. Adultery;
2. Desertion for a period of one year;
3. Physical cruelty;
4. Habitual drunkenness; provided, that this ground shall be construed to include habitual drunkenness caused by the use of any narcotic drug;
5. On the application of either party if and when the husband and wife have lived separate and apart without cohabitation for a period of one year. A plea of res judicata or of recrimination with respect to any other provision of this section shall not be a bar to either party obtaining a divorce on this ground.