A person shall support himself or herself and his or her spouse out of his or her property or by his or her labor.
S.D. Codified Laws § 25-7-1
Duty to support spouse
Applied in 12 court decisions — leading case Billion v. Billion (1996)
Most recently applied in Peery v. Peery (October 2025)
Source: SDC 1939, § 14.0209; SL 1984, ch 12, § 46.
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.