Statutes: South Dakota

(1) “Adult,” an individual who has attained eighteen years of age or an emancipated minor;

(2) “Caretaking authority,” the right to live with and care for a child on a day-to-day basis. The term includes physical custody, parenting time, right to access, and visitation;

(3) “Child,”:

(4) “Court,” a tribunal, including an administrative agency, authorized under law of this state other than this chapter to make, enforce, or modify a decision regarding custodial responsibility;

(5) “Custodial responsibility,” includes all powers and duties relating to caretaking authority and decision-making authority for a child. The term includes physical custody, legal custody, parenting time, right to access, visitation, and authority to grant limited contact with a child;

(6) “Decision-making authority,” the power to make important decisions regarding a child, including decisions regarding the child’s education, religious training, health care, extracurricular activities, and travel. The term does not include the power to make decisions that necessarily accompany a grant of caretaking authority;

(7) “Deploying parent,” a servicemember, who is deployed or has been notified of impending deployment and is:

(8) “Deployment,” the movement or mobilization of a servicemember for more than ninety days but less than eighteen months pursuant to uniformed service orders that:

(9) “Family member,” a sibling, aunt, uncle, cousin, stepparent, or grandparent of a child or an individual recognized to be in a familial relationship with a child under law of this state other than this chapter;

(10) “Limited contact,” the authority of a nonparent to visit a child for a limited time. The term includes authority to take the child to a place other than the residence of the child;

(11) “Nonparent,” an individual other than a deploying parent or other parent;

(12) “Other parent,” an individual who, in common with a deploying parent, is:

(13) “Record,” information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form;

(14) “Return from deployment,” the conclusion of a servicemember’s deployment as specified in uniformed service orders;

(15) “Servicemember,” a member of a uniformed service;

(16) “Sign,” with present intent to authenticate or adopt a record:

(17) “State,” a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States;

(18) “Uniformed service,”: