E-mail our South Carolina resident agent (registered agent), order online or call us at 1-800-669-9805 for further information or to arrange for service, either immediately or effective upon expiration of your current registered agent period of service.

Expect our South Carolina agent for service of process to provide quality service at a reasonable price: $99 per year. If you are paying more or getting less, you can now comply with South Carolina laws requiring an agent and a designated office without overpaying or sacrificing quality and dependability. , founded by a veteran corporate lawyer and now a network of practicing lawyers in the various states, provides dependable registered agent/statutory agent/resident agent service everywhere, plus other corporate and legal services. We provide quality registered/statutory/resident agent service in all of the United States.

Some facts you should know about a registered agent in South Carolina:

"registered agent," "statutory agent" and "resident agent" are three names for the same thing: an agent authorized by a company to receive documents and notices. (Since the three terms all refer to a Resident of the state acting as an AGENT, we have coined the term "ragent" to include them all). In South Carolina statutes associate registered agent and registered office with a corporate entity while the statutes associate designated agent and agent for service of process with a limited liability company (LLC). These names we also consider "LawyeRagents."

Your South Carolina registered agent may be (1) a domestic company formed under South Carolina corporate law (2) a foreign corporation authorized to transact business in South Carolina or (3) an adult individual who resides in South Carolina. South Carolina does permit a limited liability company, whether formed in South Carolina or qualified to do business in South Carolina, to act as a registered agent in South Carolina. At this time a not-for-profit entity, foreign or domestic, is not specifically mentioned as eligible to be a designated office or an agent for service of process for an LLC.

It is important to note that a South Carolina registered agent must have a South Carolina street address rather than a post office box and that the registered agent must sign a consent to be registered agent and file it with the South Carolina Secretary of State.

APPOINTING A NEW SOUTH CAROLINA REGISTERED AGENT

We welcome newly formed companies, as well as companies previously formed who presently have an overpriced resident agent, or a registered agent whose quality and dependability may be open to question.

If you are forming a new company yourself (or qualifying your company to do business in a new state yourself) and are interested in our registered agent services, just check the first box when you order online. (If you want legal assistance in the formation or qualification process, you may want to contact 4inc.com, which is also affiliated with the Inc.Link® network of corporate professionals.) Of special importance in South Carolina is Form CL-1, Initial Annual Report of Corporation. Failure to file this form may delay an entity's total registration process.

If you are an existing company which desires to change its registered agent in South Carolina, you may do so at any time by completing a change of South Carolina registered agent form and submitting it to the South Carolina Secretary of State.

When you order online, we take care of filling out this form and sending it to you for signature. Upon its return (signed) to us we will take care of filing this form, and we will also pay the fee which must be paid to the South Carolina Secretary of State to make the change.

If you would prefer to sign the form first and send it to us so that we may complete it and file it with the South Carolina Secretary of State, along with the filing fee, the change of South Carolina registered agent form for corporations can be found at http://www.scsos.com/forms/Corporations/Notice%20of%20Chg%20of%20Office%20or%20Agent.pdf. The form for limited liability companies can be found at http://www.scsos.com/forms/LLC/ChangeofOfficeAgentorAgentAddress.pdf.

Just sign these forms and get them to us and we will take care of the rest.

If your present agent is prepaid for a period of time, you can instruct us not to make the change until that period of time has expired.