South Dakota Codified Laws 21-24-5. Determination of rights under trust or decedent’s estate
Any person interested as or through a personal representative, trustee, conservator, or other fiduciary, creditor, devisee, legatee, heir, next of kin, or cestui que trust in the administration of a trust, or of the estate of a decedent, minor, protected person, or insolvent, may have a declaration of rights or legal relations in respect thereto:
(1) To ascertain any class of creditors, devisees, legatees, heirs, next of kin, or others;
Terms Used In South Dakota Codified Laws 21-24-5
- Decedent: A deceased person.
- Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
- Legatee: A beneficiary of a decedent
- Person: includes natural persons, partnerships, associations, cooperative corporations, limited liability companies, and corporations. See South Dakota Codified Laws 2-14-2
- Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
(2) To direct the personal representatives or trustees to do or abstain from doing any particular act in their fiduciary capacity;
(3) To determine any question arising in the administration of the estate or trust, including questions of construction of wills and other writings.
Source: SDC 1939 & Supp 1960, § 37.0104; SL 1993, ch 213, § 100.