Any guardian, conservator, attorney for any guardian or conservator and the attorney for the minor or person alleged to need protection, and any other individuals appointed by the court in connection with a guardianship or conservatorship proceeding, are entitled to reasonable compensation from the estate, including reimbursement for costs advanced. The court may also award reasonable compensation to any attorney whose services resulted in an order that was beneficial to the minor, the protected person, or the estate.
S.D. Codified Laws § 29A-5-116
Compensation of guardian, conservator, attorneys, and other appointed individuals
Known as the South Dakota Guardianship and Conservatorship Act
The act spans §§ 29A-5-101 to 29A-5-510 (83 sections).
Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case In Re the Guardianship of S.M.N. (2010)
Most recently applied in Matter of the Guardianship and Conservatorship of Adam (September 2021)
Source: SL 1993, ch 213, § 16; SDCL 30-36-16; SL 1995, ch 167, § 181.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.