2019 South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 25 - Domestic Relations
Chapter 04B - Uniform Deployed Parents Custody And Visitation Act
§ 25-4B-302 Proceeding for temporary custody order.
25-4B-302. Proceeding for temporary custody order. (a) After a deploying parent receives an official order to deploy and until the deployment terminates, a court may issue a temporary order granting custodial responsibility unless prohibited by the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, 50 U.S.C. Appendix Sections 521 and 522. A court may not issue a permanent order granting custodial responsibility without the consent of the deploying parent.
(b) At any time after a deploying parent receives an official order to deploy, either parent may file a motion regarding custodial responsibility of a child during deployment. The motion must be filed in a pending proceeding for custodial responsibility in a court with jurisdiction under § 25-4B-104, or if there is no pending proceeding in a court with jurisdiction under § 25-4B-104, in a new action for granting custodial responsibility during deployment.
Source: SL 2014, ch 123, § 14.
