25-8-46. Terminology used in records of children born out of wedlock.
In all records, certificates, or other papers hereafter made or executed, other than birth records and certificates or records of judicial proceedings in which the question of birth out of wedlock is at issue, requiring a declaration by or notice to the mother of a child born out of wedlock or otherwise requiring a reference to the relation of a mother to such a child, it shall be sufficient for all purposes to refer to the mother as the parent having the sole custody of the child or to the child as being in the sole custody of the mother, and no explicit reference shall be made to illegitimacy, and the term natural shall be deemed equivalent to the term illegitimate when referring to parentage or birth out of wedlock.
Source: SDC 1939 & Supp 1960, ยง37.2134.
Structure South Dakota Codified Laws
Chapter 08 - Paternity Proceedings
Section 25-8-3 - Father and mother's liability for confinement expense.
Section 25-8-5 - Custodian's recovery of support from noncustodian--Period support recoverable.
Section 25-8-7.1 - Court ordered testing for paternity--Filing of results.
Section 25-8-7.2 - Persons authorized to perform test--Liability.
Section 25-8-7.3 - Test results--Documentation--Filing objections to admissibility.
Section 25-8-9 - Time for bringing proceedings.
Section 25-8-12 - Time of institution of proceeding--Trial deferred until birth.
Section 25-8-46 - Terminology used in records of children born out of wedlock.
Section 25-8-49 - Admission of paternity as prima facie evidence.
Section 25-8-50 - Voluntary hospital-based paternity establishment program.
Section 25-8-51 - Forwarding of affidavit of paternity to Department of Social Services.
Section 25-8-52 - Rebuttable presumption of paternity--Signed and notarized affidavit.
Section 25-8-53 - Reimbursement of reasonable costs for affidavit of paternity.
Section 25-8-54 - Use of forms and information prescribed by department.
Section 25-8-55 - Default judgment establishing paternity.
Section 25-8-56 - Judgment of paternity--Full faith and credit.
Section 25-8-57 - Rebuttable presumption of legitimacy.
Section 25-8-58 - Genetic test results.
Section 25-8-59 - Actions contesting rebuttable presumption of paternity.
Section 25-8-61 - Trial by jury prohibited in paternity action.
Section 25-8-62 - Admissible medical billing evidence in paternity actions.
Section 25-8-63 - Filing affidavits or adjudications of paternity.