Liability for pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum expenses
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case In re F. J. F. (1981)
Most recently applied in Tovsland v. Reub (August 2004)
Source: SDC 1939 & Supp 1960, § 37.2101; SL 1984, ch 190, § 3; SL 1997, ch 155, § 31; SL 2023, ch 84, § 1.
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.
The father and mother of a child born out of wedlock are jointly and severally liable to pay the reasonable expenses related to the mother's:
(1) Pregnancy or prenatal care for the child;
(2) Labor and delivery of the child; and
(3) Postpartum recovery and any medical complications arising from pregnancy with the child.
Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.