In all actions for separate support and maintenance, legal separation, or other marital litigation between the parties, allowances of alimony and suit money and allowances of alimony and suit money pendente lite shall be made according to the principles controlling such allowance and actions for divorce a vinculo matrimonii.
S.C. Code Ann. § 20-3-140
Allowance of alimony and suit money in suits for separate support and maintenance and similar actions
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Hatfield v. Hatfield (1997)
Most recently applied in Hatfield v. Hatfield (June 1997)
1962 Code SECTION 20-113.1; 1952 Code SECTION 20-113.1; 1951 (47) 436; 1979 Act No. 71 SECTION 4B.
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