For any injury to his or her reputation, person, or property, a person may sue in his or her own name without joining his or her spouse as a party plaintiff. Actions founded upon a person's separate contracts or torts or relating to his or her individual property may be brought without joining his or her spouse as a party defendant.
S.D. Codified Laws § 25-2-15
Spouse's power to sue
Known as the Uniform Premarital Agreement Act
The act spans §§ 25–25 (25 sections).
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Veeder v. Kennedy (1999)
Most recently applied in Richardson v. Richardson (December 2017)
Source: SDC 1939, § 14.0207; SL 1984, ch 12, § 44.
How often courts cite this section
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.