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- SDCL § 25-1-32 · Identity and ages of parties to be established before solemnization of marriage.
- SDCL § 25-1-33 · Solemnization of marriage between unauthorized persons--Penalty.
- SDCL § 25-1-34
- SDCL § 25-1-35 · Certificate delivered to parties--Return to register of deeds.
- SDCL § 25-1-36 · Return of marriage performed without person authorized to perform--Failure as petty offense.
- SDCL § 25-1-37 · Record maintained by Department of Health--Entry as evidence of marriage--Local registrar to file records with department.
- SDCL § 25-1-38 · Validity of marriages contracted outside state--Same-sex marriages excluded.
- SDCL § 25-1-39 · Marriage voidable if party physically incapable or consent obtained by fraud or force.
- SDCL § 25-1-40 · Marital rights not restored by pardon from life sentence.
- SDCL § 25-2-1 · Respect, fidelity, and support.
- SDCL § 25-2-2
- SDCL § 25-2-3 · Joint tenancies and tenancies in common.
- SDCL § 25-2-4 · Rights in separate property.
- SDCL § 25-2-5 · Recording inventory of spouse's separate property--Prima facie evidence.
- SDCL § 25-2-6 · Separate property not liable for debts of spouse.
- SDCL § 25-2-7 · Property rights and powers of spouse.
- SDCL § 25-2-8 · Conveyance of spouse's separate property.
- SDCL § 25-2-9
- SDCL § 25-2-10 · Property transactions of husband or wife--Transactions between spouses.
- SDCL § 25-2-11 · Joint and several liability for necessaries.
- SDCL § 25-2-12 · Right to spouse's earnings--Earnings of minor children.
- SDCL § 25-2-13 · Alteration of legal relations by husband and wife--Separation and support agreements.
- SDCL § 25-2-14 · Responsibility for acts of spouse.
- SDCL § 25-2-15 · Spouse's power to sue.
- SDCL § 25-2-16 · Definitions.
- SDCL § 25-2-17 · Formalities.
- SDCL § 25-2-18 · Content.
- SDCL § 25-2-19 · Effect of marriage.
- SDCL § 25-2-20 · Amendment--Revocation.
- SDCL § 25-2-21 · Enforcement.
- SDCL § 25-2-22 · Enforcement--Void marriage.
- SDCL § 25-2-23 · Limitation of actions.
- SDCL § 25-2-24 · Application and construction.
- SDCL § 25-2-25 · Short title.
- SDCL § 25-3-1 · Former marriage as ground--Party bringing action--Time of action.
- SDCL § 25-3-2 · Unsound mind as ground--Party bringing action--Time of action.
- SDCL § 25-3-3 · Legitimacy of children after annulment for former marriage or mental illness.
- SDCL § 25-3-4 · Annulment of underage marriage--Party bringing action--Time of action.
- SDCL § 25-3-5 · Forced consent as ground--Party bringing action--Time of action.
- SDCL § 25-3-6 · Fraud as ground--Party bringing action--Time of action.
- SDCL § 25-3-7
- SDCL § 25-3-8 · Physical incapacity as ground for annulment--Party bringing action--Time of action.
- SDCL § 25-3-9 · Parties bound by annulment.
- SDCL § 25-3-10 · Provision for maintenance--Vacation or modification.
- SDCL § 25-3-11 · Provisions for child custody and support--Vacation or modification.
- SDCL § 25-3-12 · Report to Department of Health on annulments.
- SDCL § 25-4-1 · Marriage dissolved only by death or divorce--Status of parties after divorce.
- SDCL § 25-4-2 · Grounds for divorce.
- SDCL § 25-4-3 · Adultery defined.
- SDCL § 25-4-4 · Extreme cruelty defined.
- SDCL § 25-4-5 · Willful desertion defined--Special conditions applicable.
- SDCL § 25-4-6
- SDCL § 25-4-8 · Refusal of intercourse as desertion--Refusal to live together.
- SDCL § 25-4-9 · Desertion by departure during absence of spouse induced by fraud.
- SDCL § 25-4-10 · Desertion by cruelty or threats causing departure of spouse.
- SDCL § 25-4-11 · Separation by consent not desertion.
- SDCL § 25-4-12 · Intent to desert formed during proper absence.
- SDCL § 25-4-13 · Desertion by refusal of reconciliation after separation.
- SDCL § 25-4-14 · Offer to return curing desertion--Refusal of offer as desertion.
- SDCL § 25-4-15 · Willful neglect defined.
- SDCL § 25-4-16 · Habitual intemperance defined.
- SDCL § 25-4-17 · Continuous period of desertion, neglect, or intemperance required.
- SDCL § 25-4-17.1 · Irreconcilable differences defined.
- SDCL § 25-4-17.2 · Dissolution of marriage--Legal separation--Continuance--Orders during continuance--Consent of parties.
- SDCL § 25-4-17.3 · Use of affidavits to establish jurisdiction and grounds for divorce.
- SDCL § 25-4-17.4 · Validation of divorce granted without personal appearance.
- SDCL § 25-4-18 · Chronic mental illness as discretionary ground.
- SDCL § 25-4-19 · Grounds for denial of divorce.
- SDCL § 25-4-20 · Connivance defined.
- SDCL § 25-4-21 · Collusion defined.
- SDCL § 25-4-22 · Condonation defined--Required elements.
- SDCL § 25-4-23 · Condonation not implied by endurance of continuing conduct constituting ground for divorce.
- SDCL § 25-4-24 · Fraudulent concealment of ground of divorce avoiding condonation.
- SDCL § 25-4-25 · Conjugal kindness as condition subsequent to condonation.
- SDCL § 25-4-26 · Revocation of condonation and revival of ground for divorce.
- SDCL § 25-4-27
- SDCL § 25-4-29
- SDCL § 25-4-30 · Residence requirements for divorce or separate maintenance.
- SDCL § 25-4-30.1 · Venue of action--Change by defendant.
- SDCL § 25-4-31
- SDCL § 25-4-33 · No presumption as to same domicile of parties--Separate domiciles after separation.
- SDCL § 25-4-33.1 · Automatic temporary restraining order upon service.
- SDCL § 25-4-34 · Waiting period before trial of divorce and separate maintenance actions--Temporary orders and preliminary proceedings during waiting period.
- SDCL § 25-4-34.1 · Validation of prior decrees granted on sixtieth day--Deadline for contesting validity.
- SDCL § 25-4-35 · Validity of proceedings on service by publication under prior law.
- SDCL § 25-4-36
- SDCL § 25-4-38 · Alimony pending action.
- SDCL § 25-4-39 · Separate maintenance granted on denial of divorce.
- SDCL § 25-4-40 · Action for separate maintenance without divorce--Alimony and support.
- SDCL § 25-4-41 · Allowance for support when divorce granted.
- SDCL § 25-4-42 · Security for payments required of spouse--Receivership--Allowance withheld when recipient's estate sufficient.
- SDCL § 25-4-43
- SDCL § 25-4-44 · Division of property between parties.
- SDCL § 25-4-45 · Child custody provisions--Modification--Preference of child.
- SDCL § 25-4-45.1 · Fault not considered in awarding property or child custody--Exceptions.
- SDCL § 25-4-45.2 · Intervention by attorney general or state's attorney when support assigned to state.
- SDCL § 25-4-45.3 · Adoption of fee schedule for home studies or investigations ordered by court in custody proceedings.
- SDCL § 25-4-45.4 · Counsel appointed for child in certain divorce or custody proceedings--Duty of counsel--Assistance--Costs.
- SDCL § 25-4-45.5 · Consideration of domestic abuse and assault conviction in custody award.
- SDCL § 25-4-45.6 · Consideration of conviction for death of other parent in custody award.