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2018 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 62 - South Carolina Probate Code
ARTICLE 2 - INTESTATE SUCCESSION AND WILLS

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PART 1 INTESTATE SUCCESSION

Editor's Note
2013 Act No. 100, Section 4, provides as follows:
"SECTION 4. (A) This act [amending Articles 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 7] takes effect on January 1, 2014.
"(B) Except as otherwise provided in this act, on the effective date of this act:
"(1) this act applies to any estates of decedents dying thereafter and to all trusts created before, on, or after its effective date;
"(2) the act applies to all judicial proceedings concerning estates of decedents and trusts commenced on or after its effective date;
"(3) this act applies to judicial proceedings concerning estates of decedents and trusts commenced before its effective date unless the court finds that application of a particular provision of this act would substantially interfere with the effective conduct of the judicial proceedings or prejudice the rights of the parties, in which case the particular provision of this act does not apply and the superseded law applies;
"(4) subject to item (5) and subsection (C) of this section, any rule of construction or presumption provided in this act applies to governing instruments executed before the effective date of the act unless there is a clear indication of a contrary intent in the terms of the governing instrument; and
"(5) an act done and any right acquired or accrued before the effective date of the act is not affected by this act. Unless otherwise provided in this act, any right in a trust accrues in accordance with the law in effect on the date of the creation of a trust and a substantive right in the decedent's estate accrues in accordance with the law in effect on the date of the decedent's death.
"(C) If a right is acquired, extinguished, or barred upon the expiration of a prescribed period that has commenced to run under any other statute before the effective date of the act, that statute continues to apply to the right even if it has been repealed or superseded."

PART 2 ELECTIVE SHARE OF SURVIVING SPOUSE PART 3 SPOUSE AND CHILDREN UNPROVIDED FOR IN WILLS PART 4 EXEMPT PROPERTY PART 5 WILLS PART 6 CONSTRUCTION PART 7 CONTRACTUAL ARRANGEMENTS RELATING TO DEATH PART 8 GENERAL PROVISIONS PART 9 DELIVERY AND SUPPRESSION OF WILLS PART 10 UNIFORM FIDUCIARY ACCESS TO DIGITAL ASSETS

Editor's Note
2016 Act No. 260, Section 1, provides as follows:
"SECTION 1. This act may be cited as the 'South Carolina Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act'."

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