South Carolina has no good-neighbor fence law forcing cost-sharing. A boundary fence is the builder's own expense, and a neighbor owes nothing unless he agrees in writing. York County does not referee these disputes.
Unlike states with a partition-fence statute, South Carolina imposes no duty on a neighbor to help pay for or maintain a division fence. Whoever builds it bears the cost, and a neighbor who benefits owes nothing absent a written agreement or recorded easement. York County does not mediate boundary-fence disputes; a licensed survey fixes the true line, and disagreements over cost, encroachment, or a fence built across the property line are resolved in civil court. A fence set even slightly onto a neighbor's land is a trespass a court can order removed, so the survey matters before the first post goes in.
A fence encroaching over the property line is a civil trespass a court can order moved; the county does not police boundary lines. Cost disputes without a written agreement are settled between the owners in magistrate or circuit court.
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