Kylie M. Riggins Attorney/Family Law Mediator

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Kylie is a South Dakota native. She graduated from Drake University School of Business in 2002 and from the University of South Dakota School of Law in 2008. After serving as a Judicial Law Clerk for South Dakota's Fourth Judicial Circuit,  Kylie began practicing as a family law attorney at Viken Law Firm  and then joined with Linda Lea M. Viken to form Viken & Riggins Law Firm.   Kylie is now the owner of Riggins Family Law & Mediation, Prof. L.L.C. 

She focuses her practice  exclusively in the area of Domestic Relations Law and has established herself as a tenacious advocate who will work tirelessly to obtain the best possible results for her clients.  

Kylie is Admitted to practice in all South Dakota State Courts, Federal Court for the District of South Dakota and the United States Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit. Kylie is a member of both the American Bar Association and the South Dakota Bar Association. She serves on the Family Law Committee for both organizations.  

Kylie  is a member of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts.  She is a Past President of the Pennington County Bar Association and was formerly the Seventh Circuit's liaison to the Young Lawyers Board of the South Dakota State Bar. 

Kylie has served as a guest lecturer educating other attorneys and community organizations on a variety of family law topics and is a graduate of the American Bar Associations Family Law Trial Advocacy Institute.

Kylie Completed Family Law Mediation training through the Center for Mediation and Training in New York City, NY and is a member of the  Academy of Professional Family Mediators.

 Kylie was appointed by Governors Daugaard and Noem to serve on the Visitation Grant Advisory Group where she served from 2017-2022.  In 2021, she was appointed by the Chief Justice of the South Dakota Supreme Court to the Commission on Parenting Time Guidelines.  She continues to serve in both roles.  

She is involved in the Rapid City community taking on leadership roles in the Zonta Club of the Black Hills where she is a former club President, the Seventh Circuit CASA Program where she served as the Vice Chair of the Board of Directors, and on the Youth & Family Services Head Start Policy Counsel.

Family Law Issues Related to:

-Divorce;

-Custody, Paternity, Third-Party Custody;

-Child Support;

-Adoption; 

-Premarital Agreements; 

-Cohabitation Agreements; 

-Guardianship; 

-Cohabitation Agreements; 

-Gestational Carrier Agreements;

-Name Change;

- Gender Marker Change; and 

-Post-judgment Proceedings.