South Dakota Codified Laws
Chapter 22 - Administration Of Trust Estates
Section 21-22-9 - Petition, hearing, and order for court supervision of other trust--Information.

21-22-9. Petition, hearing, and order for court supervision of other trust--Information.
Any fiduciary, trustor, or beneficiary of any other trust may, if the trustee is a resident of this state or if any of the trust estate has its situs in this state, at any time petition the circuit court, the county where such petition is to be filed to be determined the same as in the case of a court trust, to exercise supervision. Upon the petition being filed, the court shall fix a time and place for hearing thereon, unless notice and a hearing are waived in writing by all fiduciaries and beneficiaries, and notice shall be given as provided pursuant to this chapter, and, upon such hearing, enter an order assuming supervision unless good cause to the contrary is shown. Thereupon the trustee shall within thirty days, file the information required pursuant to §21-22-3 by a trustee under a court trust, and, at all times thereafter, the court shall have the same powers as over a court trust. If the petition for court supervision includes the information required pursuant to §21-22-3, the fiduciary, trustor, or beneficiary may, in the same petition, request court action as to any matter relevant to the administration of the trust, including the termination of court supervision. Upon the hearing on the petition, the court shall enter an order assuming supervision unless good cause to the contrary is shown. The court shall make such order approving the relief requested by the petition, give such directions to a fiduciary as the court shall determine, or resolve objections filed by an interested party pursuant to §21-22-16.

Source: SDC 1939 & Supp 1960, §33.2605; SL 2002, ch 100, §8; SL 2004, ch 312, §10; SL 2014, ch 226, §10; SL 2015, ch 240, §24.

Structure South Dakota Codified Laws

South Dakota Codified Laws

Title 21 - Judicial Remedies

Chapter 22 - Administration Of Trust Estates

Section 21-22-1 - Definition of terms.

Section 21-22-2 - Application of chapter and §§ 55-3-24 to 55-3-48.

Section 21-22-3 - Inventory and documents filed by court trustee--Contents.

Section 21-22-4 - Appointment by nonresident trustee of agent to receive process.

Section 21-22-5 - County in which trustee's inventory and attached papers filed.

Section 21-22-6 - Commencement of supervision by court.

Section 21-22-7 - Petition, hearing and order dispensing with court supervision.

Section 21-22-7.1 - Notice of entry of order--Requirements.

Section 21-22-8 - Petition, hearing, and order resuming court supervision.

Section 21-22-9 - Petition, hearing, and order for court supervision of other trust--Information.

Section 21-22-10 - Fixing terms of trustee's bond--Amount and conditions--Sureties--Time of filing--New bond.

Section 21-22-11 - Bond required despite terms of trust instrument.

Section 21-22-12 - Vacancy of office of trustee--Successor--Temporary trustee--Resigned trustee.

Section 21-22-13 - Petitions relevant to trust administration--Hearing--Order.

Section 21-22-14 - Annual verified report of trustee--Optional calendar year basis.

Section 21-22-15 - Final report of trustee--Contents.

Section 21-22-16 - Objections to report of fiduciary or beneficiary--Adjournment of hearing--Order.

Section 21-22-17 - Contents of notice of hearings--Trustee's account attached.

Section 21-22-18 - Parties served with notice--Personal, mail, or electronic service.

Section 21-22-19 - Publication of notice in lieu of personal service.

Section 21-22-20 - Proof of service by affidavit.

Section 21-22-21 - Notice dispensed with by consent of parties.

Section 21-22-22 - Testimony and examination of reports--Questions considered.

Section 21-22-23 - Examination of trustee's reports by court.

Section 21-22-24 - Referee or accountant appointed to assist in examination of reports--Report confidential.

Section 21-22-25 - Attendance of witnesses and production of evidence at investigations and hearings.

Section 21-22-26 - Fiduciary's liability for failure to comply--Forfeiture of compensation--Fiduciary's acts not invalidated.

Section 21-22-27 - Prior settlement and distribution decrees validated--Assertion of vested rights.

Section 21-22-28 - Protection of privacy--Sealing and availability of documents.

Section 21-22-30 - Court approval of trustee's accounting is conclusive--Accounting defined.

Section 21-22-31 - Rules of civil procedure applicable.

Section 21-22-32 - Title 55 governs actions of trustee as party to transaction.