South Dakota personal representative compensation
SDCL § 29A-3-719 entitles personal representatives (and their attorneys, accountants, appraisers, and agents) to "reasonable compensation for services", determined on statutory factors including the time and labor involved, the novelty and difficulty of the questions, the fee customarily charged locally, and the nature and value of the estate's assets. There is no percentage schedule.
Sources reviewed August 9, 2026. Latest primary-source re-fetch October 3, 2026.
South Dakota sets no percentage schedule, so no fee can be computed from the estate value. The Circuit Court decides what is reasonable for the work actually done; the governing text is quoted in the source below.
South Dakota publishes its codified laws through a single-page web application. Every route tried on the date below — the human-facing statute page, the chapter endpoint, and two documented API paths — returned the same 5,982-byte application shell titled "Loading…" rather than any statutory text.
South Dakota has adopted the Uniform Probate Code, and its neighbours North Dakota and Montana carry the uniform compensation provision essentially word for word. That makes a guess tempting and unusually risky: uniform-code states diverge in exactly the places that matter, and this site has already found and documented several such divergences between Montana, North Dakota, Arizona, Idaho and Nebraska.
So the family resemblance is stated and the text is not. Assuming South Dakota tracks its neighbours would be an inference presented in the typography of a quotation.
The clerk of the circuit court in the county of venue applies the current South Dakota provision and is the authority for what it now says.
Authority that would settle this: S.D. Codified Laws tit. 29A (Uniform Probate Code). The access attempt described above was made on 2026-09-17. Nothing is quoted from it, because nothing could be read from it; a figure restated from a secondary summary would look like a sourced answer without being one.
Reviewed source note: 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.
South Dakota record: 5/5 verified, 16 matched checks, latest source re-fetch October 3, 2026. Source record · method · report a correction