Legal Opinion
State Ex Rel. LeCompte v. Keckler
South Dakota Supreme Court
Decided May 30, 2001No. 21634PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KONENKAMP, Justice.
[¶ 1.] We must decide if the circuit court properly exercised jurisdiction in this child support recovery action brought by the Office of Child Support Enforcement. Both the parents and the child are tribal members, and the tribal court had previously entered an order regarding custody and visitation. Accordingly, the tribal court had jurisdiction of the parties in its original action, but it entered only an oral order on child support. An oral support order is not enforceable outside reservation boundaries. It could not have been enforced in the obligor’s home state of New…
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