Proceedings to establish or disestablish paternity and enforce the obligation of the father may be brought at any time before the eighteenth birthday of the child.
S.D. Codified Laws § 25-8-9
Time for bringing proceedings
Applied in 10 court decisions — leading case Grajczyk v. Tasca (2006)
Most recently applied in In Re the Estate of Flaws (January 2012)
Source: SDC 1939 & Supp 1960, § 37.2131; SL 1983, ch 207, § 2; SL 1986, ch 218, § 57; SL 1989, ch 222; SL 2013, ch 119, § 16.
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.