Do-it-yourself divorce class
South Carolina Legal Services announces a free Pro Se Divorce Clinic on Oct. 20 at 2 p.m. at the Hartsville Memorial Library, 147 West College Avenue, Hartsville. No one will be allowed into the clinic after 2:05 p.m. Please pre-register by calling 843-413-9500, as seating is limited. The clinic will include forms and instructions to assist in the filing of a divorce action in Family Court in Florence, Dillon, Clarendon, Darlington, Marlboro, Chesterfield, and Clarendon counties, serving your spouse, representing yourself at a final hearing, and filing the appropriate final divorce documents – all without an attorney. In order to qualify for this assistance, you must meet all of the following requirements: · You must be separated for over one year; · You cannot have any property to divide; · You must know where your spouse lives and your spouse cannot be incarcerated; · Your spouse must live in Florence, Dillon, Clarendon, Darlington, Marlboro, Chesterfield, or Clarendon counties or you must have lived in one of those counties the last time you lived together; · The wife must not be pregnant or given birth to ANY children during the marriage, either by the husband or anyone else, who is currently under 18.