South Carolina Code 63-7-2820. Definitions
(1) "Child" means a person under the age of twenty-one.
Terms Used In South Carolina Code 63-7-2820
- Child: means a person under the age of twenty-one. See South Carolina Code 63-7-2820
- Department: means the Department of Social Services. See South Carolina Code 63-7-2820
- 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. See South Carolina Code 63-7-2820
- Legal Guardianship: means :
(a) a judicially established relationship between a child and caretaker that is intended to be permanent and self-sustaining and transfers to the caretaker the following parental rights and responsibilities with respect to the child:
(i) the duty to provide protection, support, food, clothing, shelter, supervision, education, and care;
(ii) physical custody of the child;
(iii) legal custody when family court has not awarded legal custody to another person, agency, or institution;
(iv) the right to consent to marriage, enlistment in the armed forces, and medical and surgical treatment;
(v) the duty and authority to represent the child in legal actions and to make decisions of substantial legal significance affecting the child;
(vi) the right to determine the nature and extent of the child's contact with other persons; and
(vii) the right to manage the child's income and assets. See South Carolina Code 63-7-20 - Parent: means biological parent, adoptive parents, step-parent, or person with legal custody. See South Carolina Code 63-1-40
- 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. See South Carolina Code 63-7-2820
(2) "Department" means the Department of Social Services.
(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.
(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.
(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.