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S.C. Code Ann. § 29-4-40

Reverse mortgage loans authorized without regard to certain provisions for other types of mortgage transactions

Known as the South Carolina Reverse Mortgage Act

The act spans §§ 29-4-10 to 29-4-60 (6 sections).

1994 Act No. 376, SECTION 1.

Reverse mortgage loans may be made or acquired without regard to the following provisions for other types of mortgage transactions:

(1) limitations on the purpose and use of future advances or any other mortgage proceeds;

(2) limitations on future advances to a term of years, or limitations on the term of credit line advances;

(3) limitations on the term during which future advances take priority over intervening advances;

(4) requirements that a maximum mortgage amount be stated in the mortgage;

(5) limitations on loan-to-value ratios;

(6) prohibitions on balloon payments;

(7) prohibitions on compounded interest and interest on interest;

(8) interest rate limits under the usury statutes; and

(9) requirements that a percentage of the loan proceeds must be advanced prior to loan assignment.

Official source: South Carolina Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Carolina statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.