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[TITLE 30. Table of Contents]
30-4-1 Action by spouse - Grounds.
Whenever a resident of this state:
(1) deserts a spouse without good and sufficient cause;
(2) being of sufficient ability to provide support, neglects or refuses to properly provide for and suitably maintain that spouse;
(3) having property within this state and the spouse being a resident of this state, so deserts or neglects or refuses to provide such support; or
(4) where a married person without that person's fault
lives separate and apart from that spouse, the district court
shall, on the filing of a complaint, allot, assign, set apart
and decree as alimony the use of the real and personal estate
or earnings of the deserting spouse as the court may determine
appropriate. During the pendency of the action, the court
may require the deserting spouse to pay a sum as provided
in Section
30-3-3
.
1993
30-4-2 Procedure - Venue.
In all actions brought hereunder the proceedings and practice
shall be the same as near as may be as in actions for divorce;
but the action may be brought in any county where the wife
or the husband may be found.
1977
30-4-3 Custody and maintenance of children - Property and debt division - Support payments.
(1) In all actions brought under this chapter the court may by order or decree:
(a) provide for the care, custody, and maintenance of the minor children of the parties and may determine with which of the parties the children or any of them shall remain;
(b) (i) provide for support of either spouse and the support of the minor children remaining with that spouse;
(ii) provide how and when support payments shall be made; and
(iii) provide that either spouse have a lien upon the property of the other to secure payment of the support or maintenance obligation;
(c) award to either spouse the possession of any real or personal property of the other spouse or acquired by the spouses during the marriage; or
(d) pursuant to Section 15-4-6.5 :
(i) specify which party is responsible for the payment of joint debts, obligations, or liabilities contracted or incurred by the parties during the marriage;
(ii) require the parties to notify respective creditors or obligees regarding the court's division of debts, obligations, and liabilities and regarding the parties' separate, current addresses; and
(iii) provide for the enforcement of these orders.
(2) The orders and decrees under this section may be enforced by sale of any property of the spouse or by contempt proceedings or otherwise as may be necessary.
(3) The court may change the support or maintenance of
a party from time to time according to circumstances, and
may terminate altogether any obligation upon satisfactory
proof of voluntary and permanent reconciliation. An order
or decree of support or maintenance shall in every case be
valid only during the joint lives of the husband and wife.
1991
30-4-4 Restraining disposal of property.
At the time of filing the complaint mentioned in Section
30-4-1
, or at any time subsequent thereto, the plaintiff
may procure from the court, and file with the county recorder
of any county in the state in which the defendant may own
real estate, an order enjoining and restraining the defendant
from disposing of or encumbering the same or any portion
thereof, describing such real estate with reasonable certainty,
and from the time of filing such order the property described
therein shall be charged with a lien in favor of the plaintiff
to the extent of any judgment which may be rendered in the
action.
1953
30-4-5 Rights and remedies - Imprisonment of husband or wife.
Like rights and remedies shall be extended to either husband
or wife on the imprisonment of the other in the state prison
under a sentence of one year or more when suitable provision
has not been made for the support of the one not so imprisoned.
1977
