Each spouse shall have and retain after marriage all the civil and property rights of a single person. Each may buy and sell, receive and convey, or dispose of by will, or otherwise dispose of any real or personal property belonging to him or her or in which he or she may have an interest, without joining the name of the spouse except for the homestead.
S.D. Codified Laws § 25-2-7
Property rights and powers of spouse
Known as the Uniform Premarital Agreement Act
The act spans §§ 25–25 (25 sections).
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Billion v. Billion (1996)
Most recently applied in Liebel v. Liebel (June 2024)
Source: SDC 1939, § 14.0207; SL 1984, ch 12, § 41.
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.