Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 5/22/2006

Pirri v. Pirri

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631 S.E.2d 279
369 S.C. 258
2006 S.C. App. LEXIS 106

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noting that any transmutation must have occurred, if at all, after the date of the common law marriage
providing that when a court is considering an alimony award, \[n]o one factor is dispositive\ (quoting Allen v. Allen, 347 S.C. 177, 184, 554 S.E.2d 421, 425 (Ct. App. 2001))
finding that barring alimony solely based on an eight-year marriage's length was an error when the parties' standard of living, relative incomes, and the husband's fault in breaking up the marriage favored awarding wife alimony
\The burden is on the spouse claiming transmutation to produce objective evidence that the parties considered the property to be marital during the marriage.\
\[South Carolina] courts have not determined that a relatively short marriage is the single determinative factor in denying alimony; alimony has been found proper in some cases where the marriage was of a much shorter duration than [nearly eight years]\
discussing the subsection 20-3-130(C)(1) factor, duration of the marriage

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Judges: Beatty, Hearn, Huff

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