Mace v. Bryant
Action for partition filed April 2, 2024 by Rep. Nancy Mace against Patrick Bryant over a jointly owned Isle of Palms beach house; settled at mediation May 28, 2024; Mace moved to enforce the settlement in 2025.
Rep. Nancy Mace filed this action for partition on April 2, 2024, seeking to divide or force the sale of a beach house at 3301 Palm Blvd., Isle of Palms, S.C. that she and Patrick Bryant owned in equal shares. The parties reached a settlement at mediation on May 28, 2024, and filed a Stipulation of Dismissal Without Prejudice on October 30, 2024. In 2025, Mace returned to court with a Motion to Enforce Settlement Agreement, alleging Bryant had not complied with the terms.
All allegations in any pleading are the contentions of the filing party and are not findings of fact; where a party has denied an allegation, that denial is part of the record.
The filings, as filed
Two documents anchor this case: the 2024 partition complaint that opened it, and the 2025 motion by which Mace returned to court to enforce the mediated settlement. Both are reproduced below; the originals are the Summons & Complaint (PDF, 4 pages) and the Motion to Enforce Settlement Agreement (PDF, 2 pages, motion body; exhibits omitted).
Page 1, the Summons (non-jury) in Mace v. Bryant*, No. 2024-CP-10-01725, filed April 2, 2024 through The Phipps Law Firm.*
Page 3, the complaint's allegations: the property "is not being rented regularly and neither party is willing" to continue the arrangement, supporting the request to partition.
Page 1, the Motion to Enforce Settlement Agreement: Mace recounts the April 2, 2024 partition filing, the May 28, 2024 mediation, and the resulting written agreement concerning the 3301 Palm Blvd. property.
Docket
| Date | Filing | Filed by | |------|--------|----------| | 2024-04-02 | Summons & Complaint, Action for Partition, dispatch | Plaintiff Mace | | 2024-10-30 | Stipulation of Dismissal Without Prejudice (settled at May 28, 2024 mediation) | Both parties | | 2025-06-27 | Motion to Enforce Settlement Agreement, dispatch | Plaintiff Mace | | 2025-12-03 | Order, Matter Continued | Court | | 2026-01-08 | Motion for Continuance | Plaintiff Mace |
Status: The Motion to Enforce Settlement Agreement was pending as of the last docket entry reviewed.
Sources & Related Coverage
The filings themselves: Summons & Complaint, Action for Partition (PDF, 4 pages), filed April 2, 2024; and Plaintiff's Motion to Enforce Settlement Agreement (PDF, 2 pages, motion body; exhibits omitted), filed June 27, 2025, both in Nancy Ruth Mace v. Brendan Patrick Bryant, Charleston County Court of Common Pleas, Ninth Judicial Circuit, Case No. 2024-CP-10-01725.
Case No. 2024-CP-10-01725 is searchable on the South Carolina Judicial Branch Public Index at publicindex.sccourts.org by case number. All filings listed above are public records available through that index.
Related Dispatches
Court appoints former Judge Kristi Harrington as third-party neutral to sort the 11,000+ disputed files in Mace's Google Drive
On June 16, 2026, Judge Donald B. Hocker appointed Kristi Harrington, a Charleston attorney and former South Carolina Circuit Court judge, to serve as a 'third-party neutral' in Assignment Desk Works, LLC v. Alexis Berg (Charleston County Court of Common Pleas, No. 2025-CP-10-2671), one of the cluster of cases tied to Rep. Nancy Mace and her former fiance, Patrick Bryant. Harrington's task is to review the more than 11,000 electronic files in what the court calls 'Mace's Google Drive,' files that both Mace and Bryant claim to own, and decide which, if any, must be turned over in discovery. The court split her fees between the two camps, warned the volume could make the process 'very cost-prohibitive,' and entered the order over Mace's objection. The order makes no finding on privilege, admissibility, ownership, or wrongdoing; the underlying allegations remain contested and unproven.
Gretchen Carlson, who helped write the Speak Out Act, files a sworn declaration backing Alexis Berg
On June 8, 2026, Alexis Berg's counsel filed a reply brief in Assignment Desk Works, LLC v. Alexis Berg (No. 2025-CP-10-2671) arguing that the federal Speak Out Act makes the non-disparagement clause ADW is suing on judicially unenforceable, because the dispute before the court involves sexual-assault allegations. Attached was a sworn declaration from Gretchen Carlson, the former Fox News anchor whose 2016 case helped inspire the Act, who states she has met with Berg and that 'this is exactly the situation we fought to address,' and offers to testify. ADW argues the Act does not apply. The motion is undecided; the underlying allegations are contested and denied.
Bryant's counsel to Berg's attorney: 'Describing in detail what I contend is confidential before the Order is in place would defeat the very purpose of having a confidentiality order'
On December 22, 2025, Patrick Bryant's attorneys at Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani filed a seven-page opposition to Berg's motion for a blanket confidentiality order in Berg v. Bryant, Case No. 2025-CP-10-03124. The brief argues that the photographs and recordings Berg now seeks to seal were already made public by Rep. Nancy Mace, with Berg's consent, during Mace's February and May 2025 congressional speeches. Bryant's counsel agrees that Berg's medical and therapy records should be confidential, but opposes a blanket designation. Attached as Exhibit A is a 23-page compilation of counsel emails documenting a six-week dispute over what, if anything, required protection. All allegations in the underlying litigation are disputed and contested; Bryant denies the claims against him; Berg, Mace, and all named parties deny Bryant's allegations; no matter has been adjudicated.
Mace's own motion shows she signed a quitclaim deed to her ex-fiancé on Feb. 13, 2025, three days after accusing him of crimes on the House floor
Mace's June 27, 2025 motion to enforce her settlement with Brendan (Patrick) Bryant documents that she executed a quitclaim deed transferring the beach house to him on Feb. 13, 2025, days after her Feb. 10 floor speech, while their property settlement was still being carried out.
Mace's own defamation complaint puts her House-floor accusations, and the men's furious replies, into the public record
Suing Eric Bowman for defamation on May 12, 2025, Mace's complaint confirms she 'identified four individuals' from the House floor and reproduces, verbatim, the very accusations she calls false, including claims she steered VA contracts and 'destroy[ed] innocent men with zero evidence, zero charges.'
Ten months before accusing him from the House floor, Mace sued her ex-fiancé to split the beach house they owned together
On April 2, 2024, Mace filed a partition action against Brendan (Patrick) Bryant to divide or sell a jointly owned Isle of Palms beach house. Her own complaint records that she and the man she would later accuse of crimes each held 'an undivided one half' interest in the property.