On April 2, 2024, Nancy Mace filed an Action for Partition against Brendan Patrick Bryant in Charleston County (No. 2024-CP-10-01725) — a routine civil suit to divide or sell real estate that two people own together. The property, her complaint states, is a beach house:

"3301 Palm Blvd, Isle of Palms, SC 29451 … The Plaintiff, Mace, is the owner of an undivided one half (1/2) interest in the above-described premises. The remaining undivided interest is owned by Defendant Bryant."

"The property was to be rented as a vacation rental to help sustain and pay the property's mortgage, insurance, and tax payments."

The complaint is unremarkable as a legal matter. Its significance is the relationship and the timeline it documents: as of spring 2024, Mace and Bryant were co-owners and co-investors in an Isle of Palms vacation rental, splitting a mortgage 50/50. The dispute here was about money and property — not the criminal conduct Mace would publicly attribute to Bryant from the floor of the U.S. House ten months later, on February 10, 2025.

The parties settled this property dispute at mediation on May 28, 2024, and the case was dismissed without prejudice that October — each side bearing its own costs. The terms of that settlement, and what happened next, are the subject of a separate dispatch.

No characterization of either party is offered here. The filing is reported because it establishes, in Mace's own words, the financial partnership that preceded her later public accusations.

Source: Nancy Ruth Mace v. Brendan Patrick Bryant, Charleston County Court of Common Pleas, No. 2024-CP-10-01725 — Summons & Complaint (Action for Partition), filed April 2, 2024. Public record via the S.C. Judicial Branch Public Index. See also Patrick Bryant.