S.C. Code Ann. § 20-3-140: Allowance of alimony and suit money in suits for separate support and maintenance and similar actions.

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.