A marriage between persons of the same sex is void ab initio and against the public policy of this State.
S.C. Code Ann. § 20-1-15
Prohibition of same sex marriage
Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case Conaway v. Deane (2007)
Most recently applied in Jack Pidgeon and Larry Hicks v. Mayor Sylvester Turner and City of Houston (June 2017)
1996 Act No. 327, SECTION 1, eff May 20, 1996.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: South Carolina Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Carolina statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.