{"data":{"id":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-63-7-2820","jurisdiction":"us-sc","citation":"S.C. Code Ann. § 63-7-2820","heading":"Definitions.","body":"When used in this article:\n(1) \"Child\" means a person under the age of twenty-one.\n(2) \"Department\" means the Department of Social Services.\n(3) \"Fictive kin\" means an individual who is not related by birth, adoption, or marriage to a child but has an emotionally significant relationship with the child or the child's family.\n(4) \"Relative\" means an individual within the first, second, or third degree to a parent or stepparent of a child who may be related through blood, marriage, or adoption or through the establishment of a fictive kin relationship.\n(5) \"Supplemental legal guardianship benefits\" means monthly payments made by the department to a legal guardian pursuant to and after entering a written agreement with a relative or fictive kin to provide support for a child who without supplemental support may not achieve permanency through legal guardianship.","path":["Title 63 - SOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S CODE","CHAPTER 7 Child Protection and Permanency","ARTICLE 9 Legal Guardianship with Supplemental Benefits"],"source_url":"https://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t63c007.php","current_through":"2025 Session of the General Assembly","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-02T08:09:24Z","sha256":"1385ed9fb7f7424afe03132e24a024097d214048a9d954b4b768410cfd3db619","source_id":"us-sc","stale":false,"prev":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-63-7-2810","next":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-63-7-2830"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}