A person shall support his or her spouse, when the spouse has not deserted him or her, out of his or her separate property, when the spouse has no separate property and the spouse is unable from infirmity to support himself or herself.
S.D. Codified Laws § 25-7-5
Duty to support spouse
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Billion v. Billion (1996)
Most recently applied in Wagner v. Truesdell (January 1998)
Source: SDC 1939, § 14.0209; SL 1984, ch 12, § 50.
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.