SD Codified L § 55-18-1 (2021)
2021 South Dakota Codified Laws|Title 55 - Fiduciaries and Trusts|Chapter 18 - Virtual Representation|Section 55-18-1 - Definitions.

55-18-1. Definitions. Terms used in this chapter mean:(1)"Bind" or "bound," to consent, receive notice or service of process, approve, agree, object, resist, waive, or demand for or as a person with the same binding and conclusive effect as if the person represented had;(2)"Conflict of interest," a situation in which a representative's interest in the trust causes a significant likelihood that a reasonable person would disregard a representative's duty to a represented beneficiary. A conflict of interest, however, excludes (i) any adversity, conflict or opposed interests substantially unrelated to the representative's interest in the trust; (ii) any past situation which is not likely to re-occur; and (iii) any conflict of interest which falls short of a material conflict of interest;(3)"Co-representative," more than one simultaneously acting representative of the same class pursuant to §55-18-9, as when co-guardians are acting:(4)"Conservator," a person appointed pursuant to chapter 29A-5 or equivalent provisions of another jurisdiction's laws including a temporary conservator, a guardian ad litem, and a limited conservator;(5)"Fiduciary," a person defined by subdivision 21-22-1(3), except as used in §55-18-17;(6)"Guardian," a person appointed pursuant to chapter 29A-5 or equivalent provisions of another jurisdiction's laws including a temporary guardian and a limited guardian;(7)"Incapacitated" or "incapacity," lacking the capacity to meaningfully understand the matter in question because of a mental or physical impairment;(8)"Interest," a beneficial interest as defined by subdivision 55-1-24(1) but including the holder of a power of appointment, and any power to remove or replace a fiduciary or a representative;(9)"Interested beneficiary," a person who, on the date the person's qualification is determined:(a)Is a current distributee or permissible distributee of trust income or principal;(b)Would be a distributee or permissible distributee of trust income or principal if the interests of the current distributees terminated on that date;(c)Would be a distributee or permissible distributee of trust income or principal if the trust terminated on that date;(d)Holds a power of appointment; or(e)Would hold a power of appointment if the interests of the current distributees terminated on that date or the interests of the persons currently holding a power of appointment under this subdivision terminated on that date;(10)"Knows" or "knowingly," actual knowledge of the fact in question;(11)"Minor," any person who has not attained the age of eighteen. The term includes a minor with an incapacity;(12)"Nonjudicial settlement," an agreement, release, or other action whether or not approved by a court, which may include, without limitation:(a)The interpretation or construction of the terms of a trust;(b)The approval of any fiduciary's report or accounting;(c)Direction to any fiduciary to refrain from performing a particular act or the grant to a fiduciary of any necessary or desirable power;(d)The resignation or appointment of any fiduciary;(e)The determination of a fiduciary or a representative's compensation;(f)The transfer of a trust's principal place of administration or situs;(g)The liability of any fiduciary's action or omission relating to a trust;(h)Partial or final settlement agreements regarding a trust or its administration; or(i)The modification, amendment, reformation, or termination of a trust;(13)"Notice" or "notifies," notice provided personally, by mail, postage prepaid, addressed to the person's last known post office address, or electronically in accordance with §15-6-5(d);(14)"Notifier," a person who is undertaking notice or proposing consent with regard to a matter concerning a trust;(15)"Power of appointment," a power defined by §55-1-12;(16)"Proceeding," any judicial or nonjudicial trust proceeding, accounting, termination, modification, reformation, decanting, settlement, nonjudicial settlement, and any proceeding conducted pursuant to chapter 21-22 or title 29A which concerns a trust;(17)"Protected person," a person other than a minor for whom a guardian or conservator is appointed;(18)"Reasonably available," with respect to a person, that the person can be identified and located with the exercise of reasonable diligence;(19)"Representative," a person who may bind another person pursuant to §55-18-9;(20)"Trust," an express inter vivos or testamentary trust;(21)"Uninterested beneficiary," a beneficiary other than an interested beneficiary. Source: SL 2017, ch 208, §2; SL 2018, ch 275, §31; SL 2019, ch 209, §9; SL 2021, ch 207, § 3.