Marriage dissolved only by death or divorce--Status of parties after divorce
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case Larson v. Larson (1975)
Most recently applied in Andersen v. Andersen (January 2019)
Source: SDC 1939, § 14.0701.
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.
Marriage is dissolved only:
(1) By the death of one of the parties; or
(2) By the judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction decreeing a divorce of the parties. The effect of such judgment is to restore the parties to the state of unmarried persons.
Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.