Kylie M. Riggins

Kylie M. Riggins is an attorney and family law mediator who owns Riggins Family Law & Mediation, Prof. L.L.C. in Rapid City, South Dakota. Her practice focuses exclusively on domestic relations law. Riggins handles divorce, child custody and paternity matters, child support, adoption, guardianship, premarital and cohabitation agreements, gestational carrier agreements, name and gender marker changes, and post-judgment issues. She combines litigation work with mediation for families seeking structured resolutions.

Riggins graduated from Drake University School of Business in 2002 and earned her law degree from the University of South Dakota School of Law in 2008. After law school, she served as a clerk for South Dakota’s Fourth Judicial Circuit. Her business education and judicial clerkship provided foundations in analysis, organization, and court procedure that support her current work on financial, parenting, and legal issues arising in domestic relations cases.

Riggins began practicing family law after her clerkship and later co-founded Viken & Riggins before establishing her current practice. She represents clients in divorce, custody, support, adoption, and other family matters and provides family law mediation. Her professional training includes mediation work focused on domestic relations disputes. She is admitted in South Dakota, the US District Court for the District of South Dakota, and the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.

Kylie M. Riggins has served in leadership and committee roles connected to family law, including work with the Pennington County Bar Association and South Dakota family law initiatives. She has participated in the state’s Commission on Parenting Time Guidelines. Her practice reflects detailed knowledge of domestic relations procedure and a commitment to practical problem solving, whether clients need courtroom representation, negotiated agreements, or mediation in sensitive family disputes.

Law Office Affiliations

• Attorney, Riggins Family Law & Mediation, PLLC
• Former Seventh Circuit’s Liaison to the Young Lawyers Board, State Bar of South Dakota
• Member, Family Law Committee, State Bar of South Dakota
• Past President, Pennington County Bar Association
• Member, American Bar Association
• Appointed Member, Commission on Parenting Time Guidelines (Appointed by the Chief Justice of the South Dakota Supreme Court) (2021)
• Former Club President, Zonta Club of the Black Hills
• Board Member, Youth & Family Services
• Member, Association of Family and Conciliation Courts
• Appointed Member, Visitation Grant Advisory Group (Appointed by the Governor) (2017-2022)
• Member, Seventh Circuit CASA Program

Licensed State

• South Dakota

Education

• The University of South Dakota Knudson School of Law
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• Drake University
  Bachelor of Science (BS)

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