What each source establishes
The South Dakota guide rests on the source-backed rules this site can verify for the state: which simplified procedure exists and what it limits, what the court charges, how the person administering the estate may be paid, and the statutory creditor-deadline clocks the official text states.Every published rule below is quoted in the publisher’s own words rather than summarised.
Simplified-procedure rule
South Dakota Legislature (LRC Statutes API) · Source: SL 1994, ch 232 , § 3-1201; SL 1995, ch 167 , § 136; SL 1997, ch 172 , § 1; SL 2002, ch 100 , § 26; SL 2003, ch 157 , § 1 · Verified August 9, 2026
(1) The value of the entire estate, wherever located, less liens and encumbrances, does not exceed $100,000; (2) Thirty days have elapsed since the death of the decedent
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What was published from this source
SD S.D. Codified Laws § 29A-3-1201
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- ✓threshold $100,000 net of liens, 30 daysmatched
- ✓section identity 29A-3-1201matched
- ✓section identitymatched
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Executor compensation rule
South Dakota Legislature (LRC Statutes API) · Source: SL 1994, ch 232 , § 3-719; SL 1995, ch 167 , § 123; SL 1996, ch 187 . · Verified August 9, 2026
29A-3-719 . Compensation of personal representative. (a) Personal representatives, attorneys, accountants, appraisers, and other agents of the personal representative are entitled to reasonable compensation for services.
What was published from this source
SD S.D. Codified Laws § 29A-3-719
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- ✓reasonable compensation standardmatched
- ✓section identity 29A-3-719matched
- ✓section identitymatched
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Court cost rule
South Dakota Legislature (LRC Statutes API) · SL 2011, ch 108 , § 1; SL 2020, ch 69 , § 1; SL 2026, ch 92 , § 1. · Verified August 9, 2026
16-2-29 . Fees charged by clerk of courts--Exemptions. The clerk of courts shall charge and collect the following fees: (1) For the probate of an estate, seventy-five dollars
What this means: The cohort brief pointed to SDCL 16-2-29.4 for filing fees; that section is a fee-waiver provision. The operative probate filing fee is in § 16-2-29(1), which remained $75 through the most recent amendment (SL 2026, ch 92).
What was published from this source
SD S.D. Codified Laws § 16-2-29(1)
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- ✓probate filing fee $75matched
- ✓section identity 16-2-29matched
- ✓section identitymatched
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Simplified-procedure rule
South Dakota Legislature (LRC Statutes API) · Source: SL 2022, ch 89 , § 1. · Verified August 9, 2026
29A-3-1203 . Succession to real property by affidavit. Sixty days after the death of a decedent, any person claiming to be a successor to the decedent's interest in real property in this state may file, or cause to be filed on their behalf, an affidavit describing the real property owned by the decedent and the interest of the decedent in the property.
What this means: A route the personal-property affidavit (§ 29A-3-1201) does not cover: title to a decedent's South Dakota real property (interest of $50,000 or less) is perfected by an affidavit filed with the register of deeds sixty days after death, rather than by any court filing. Enacted SL 2022, ch 89.
What was published from this source
SD S.D. Codified Laws § 29A-3-1203
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- ✓real-property affidavit ceiling $50,000matched
- ✓real-property affidavit 60 daysmatched
- ✓section identity 29A-3-1203matched
- ✓section identitymatched
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Creditor deadline rule
South Dakota Legislature (LRC Statutes API) · Source: SL 1994, ch 232 , § 3-803; SL 1995, ch 167 , § 125. · Verified August 9, 2026
(3) As to all creditors, within three years after the decedent's death.
What was published from this source
SD S.D. Codified Laws § 29A-3-803(a)(3)
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- ✓outer 3-year barmatched
- ✓section identity 29A-3-803matched
- ✓section identitymatched
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