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No State Lease-Termination Right on Military Orders

The Residential Landlord and Tenant Act contains no provision allowing a tenant to end a rental agreement on military orders, and the military title’s general provisions chapter contains no state civil relief act. The federal Servicemembers Civil Relief Act is the route.

Verified August 23, 2026

What this benefit is

The Residential Landlord and Tenant Act contains no provision allowing a tenant to end a rental agreement on military orders, and the military title’s general provisions chapter contains no state civil relief act. The federal Servicemembers Civil Relief Act is the route.

Who is entitled to it

  • This record answers what a servicemember tenant may do under state law.
  • Your home is in South Carolina.

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How to claim it

  1. 1Stop looking for a state statute. The residential landlord and tenant chapter was read this session and it does not mention military service, the armed forces, the National Guard, deployment or servicemembers anywhere.
  2. 2The military title’s general provisions chapter was read too. The only reference to civil relief there is a line permitting advice about the federal act to be given to a client.
  3. 3Use the federal Servicemembers Civil Relief Act. Give the landlord written notice with a copy of the orders and keep proof of delivery.
  4. 4Ask installation legal assistance before you accept any early-termination fee a landlord proposes as an alternative.
  5. 5Watch for lease clauses that invent a state-law procedure or attach a penalty to a military termination. Those are worth a lawyer’s eye.
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CorrectionA "South Carolina Servicemembers Civil Relief Act" appears in search results because a bill by that name was introduced in the 2017-2018 session. A bill is not a statute, and neither the landlord and tenant chapter nor the military title’s general provisions chapter carries one today.
Known gapThis covers the two chapters read this session. It is not a statement about vehicle leases, telecoms or gym contracts, or a civil relief provision sitting elsewhere in the code.

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