South Carolina Five-Day Notice to Remaining Perpetrator Tenant
South Carolina Five-Day Notice to Remaining Perpetrator Tenant
Before use: This notice addresses the narrow situation in S.C. Code § 27-40-350(C). Confirm that a qualifying incident was documented under § 27-40-210(20), the protected tenant has relinquished possession and ended future lease obligations under § 27-40-350, and the addressee is the sole remaining tenant obligated on the rental agreement. Do not attach the protected tenant's order, conviction record, address, or other private information to the copy served on the addressee.
Date of notice: [__/__/____]
To: [NAME OF SOLE REMAINING TENANT]
From: [LANDLORD OR AUTHORIZED AGENT NAME]
Premises: [STREET ADDRESS, UNIT, CITY, COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA ZIP]
Rental agreement dated: [__/__/____]
Notice of termination
The landlord gives you written notice under S.C. Code § 27-40-350(C) that your rental agreement for the Premises will terminate on [DATE], at least five days after this notice is given, applying the time-computation rule in § 27-40-240(D). You are the sole remaining tenant obligated on that agreement after the protected tenant ended future obligations following a documented qualifying incident.
Please surrender possession and return the keys by the termination date. If you remain after termination, the landlord may seek possession through lawful court process. The landlord reserves any claim for actual damages that § 27-40-350(C) permits; this notice neither calculates nor establishes those damages.
Return keys to: [NAME AND ADDRESS]
Contact for move-out arrangements: [PHONE OR EMAIL]
Landlord or agent signature
Signature: ______________________________ Date: [__/__/____]
Printed name and capacity: [NAME AND ROLE]
Mailing address: [ADDRESS]
Delivery record
Delivered or mailed on: [__/__/____] at [TIME]
Method: ☐ Handed to the tenant ☐ Sent by registered or certified mail to the tenant's designated notice address, or, if none, last known residence
Address and recipient or mail tracking number: [DETAILS]
Person serving notice: [NAME] Signature: ______________________________
Sources and references
- S.C. Code §§ 27-40-210, 27-40-240, and 27-40-350 — definitions, delivery, and the limited five-day termination route.
About this template
- Last updated
- October 27, 2026
- Citations checked
- October 27, 2026
- Jurisdiction
- South Carolina
- Category
- Landlord & Tenant
Legal authority
- S.C. Code § 27-40-210(20) (qualifying incident)
- S.C. Code § 27-40-350(C) (remaining perpetrator)
- S.C. Code § 27-40-240(B) (notice delivery)
- S.C. Code § 27-40-240(D) (time computation)
- S.C. Code § 27-40-350(B) (protected tenant relinquishes possession)
Landlord-tenant paperwork governs who can stay in a property, on what terms, and what happens when something goes wrong. Leases, notices to quit, security deposit demands, and habitability complaints all have state and often city-specific requirements for timing, content, and service. Getting the paperwork right is what makes an eviction actually succeed or a security deposit actually come back, because judges regularly dismiss cases over small procedural mistakes.
Not legal advice
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Checked against the law it cites
A reviewer verified this template's legal citations against the official source on October 27, 2026.
S.C. Code § 27-40-350(C) (checked October 27, 2026): "If the perpetrator is the remaining sole tenant obligated on the rental agreement, the landlord may terminate the rental agreement with five days' written notice and collect actual damages for such termination against the perpetrator."
S.C. Code § 27-40-350(B) (checked October 27, 2026): "The protected tenant must relinquish all legal rights of possession to the premises, but is still responsible for paying rent and other amounts owed, other than any fees imposed for early termination of the rental agreement."
S.C. Code § 27-40-210(20) (checked October 27, 2026): ""qualifying incident" means domestic abuse or violence as defined by Chapter 4, Title 20 or Chapter 25, Title 16 wherein both the victim and the perpetrator are leaseholders on the same property and the domestic abuse or violence is documented by a restraining order or an order of protection or the perpetrator has been convicted of the domestic violence or abuse."
S.C. Code § 27-40-240(B) (checked October 27, 2026): "A person "notifies" or "gives" a notice or notification to another person by taking steps reasonably calculated to inform the other in ordinary course whether or not the other actually comes to know of it."
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