Custodia

Family reunification therapy is a process meant to fix or stabilize a relationship between a parent and a child that has been damaged or destroyed.¹

If there’s an issue concerning custody or visitation between you and the other parent, the judge may order family reunification therapy to help you create, carry out, or change a plan for custody or visitation. However, this would not be the case if the other parent has committed domestic abuse against you or your child. In that case, there is a “rebuttable presumption” that reunification therapy would be against the best interest of the child. This means that the default assumption will be that therapy is not appropriate in this situation, but either parent could present evidence to the judge to argue that it should still be used.²

If the judge does order family reunification therapy, the cost of the therapy may be shared between you and the other parent.²

¹ American Bar Association, Reunification: What Is It, What Is It Not, and What Does It Involve? 
² SDCL § 25-4-84