Court Opinion

ID: 9657744
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 20:36:31.557114+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:13:47.972212
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MORGAN, Retired Justice
(concurring in part and dissenting in part).
On Mother’s claim in this proceeding, I would simply reverse the award and remand to the trial court to dismiss the proceedings. Mother is not now asking for support for the child, he having attained his majority. She is asking, in effect, to be reimbursed for the support she furnished while she had the son secreted away from his father. By her egregious conduct, in violating and thwarting the court-ordered visitation over a fourteen-year-period, this woman does not have clean hands to the extent that it precludes the courts from granting her any relief. Miiller v. County of Davison, 452 N.W.2d 119, 121-22 (S.D.1990); Stach v. Stach, 369 N.W.2d 132, 136 (S.D.1985). Therefore, I dissent on that issue. This would not preclude the son from bringing his own action on the educational fund, nor does it preclude Husband from properly commencing his action as suggested by the majority, and my concurrence is with both of these issues.