A husband and wife cannot by any contract with each other alter their legal relations, except as to property, and except that they may agree in writing to an immediate separation and may make provision for the support of either of them and of their children during such separation. The mutual consent of the parties is sufficient consideration for such separation agreement.
S.D. Codified Laws § 25-2-13
Alteration of legal relations by husband and wife--Separation and support agreements
Known as the Uniform Premarital Agreement Act
The act spans §§ 25–25 (25 sections).
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case Billion v. Billion (1996)
Most recently applied in Andersen v. Andersen (January 2019)
Source: SDC 1939, § 14.0202.
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.