2017 South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 25 - DOMESTIC RELATIONS
Chapter 04 - Divorce And Separate Maintenance
§ 25-4-18 Chronic mental illness as discretionary ground.

25-4-18. Chronic mental illness as discretionary ground. In case of incurable, chronic mania or dementia of either spouse having existed for five years or more, while under confinement by order of a court of record or of the Board of Mental Illness as provided by law, the court may in its discretion grant a divorce.

Source: SDC 1939, ยง 14.0703 (7).

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