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Fortunately, South Carolina has a legal procedure in place for situations like these. If you want to get a divorce without your spouse's consent in South Carolina, in most cases, you will have to show that you meet one of the state's four legally recognized grounds for an at-fault divorce.

However, being the one who files first for divorce in South Carolina can confer several key advantages, especially if you plan on making a case for an at-fault divorce. Given how the outcome of your divorce can affect your future in many important ways, you want every edge you can get.

There are five grounds for divorce in South Carolina: adultery, habitual drunkenness, physical cruelty, abandonment and no fault, which is based on the parties living separate and apart for at least one year. Mental abuse/cruelty is not a basis for divorce in South Carolina.

If you want to get a divorce without your spouse's consent in South Carolina, in most cases, you will have to show that you meet one of the state's four legally recognized grounds for an at-fault divorce. Those grounds are: Your spouse committed adultery.

South Carolina allows different ways to serve the divorce papers: The easiest way is to have your spouse agree to receive the documents directly from you. Your spouse will have to complete and sign an Acceptance of Service form, which you'll then file with the court.

Filing a divorce complaint in the appropriate county, Serving your spouse with the complaint and summons, Requesting a hearing in the family court (after the one-year continuous separation), and. Asking the family court to finalize your divorce and issue a final order.