Except as provided in § 25-7-6.26, it is presumed for the purposes of determination of child support that a parent is capable of being employed a minimum of one thousand eight hundred twenty hours per year, and the parent's child support obligation must be calculated at a rate not less than one thousand eight hundred twenty hours at the state minimum wage.
S.D. Codified Laws § 25-7-6.4
Rebuttable presumption of employment at minimum wage
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case Muenster v. Muenster (2009)
Most recently applied in Muenster v. Muenster (April 2009)
Source: SL 1989, ch 220, § 4; SL 2009, ch 130, § 3; SL 2017, ch 111, § 2; SL 2022, ch 81, § 1
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