2011 South Dakota Code
Title 55 FIDUCIARIES AND TRUSTS
Chapter 01. Classification And Creation Of Trusts
§55-1-42 Mandatory or support interests.
55-1-42. Mandatory or support interests. A beneficiary of a mandatory or a support interest has an enforceable right to a distribution pursuant to a court's review. A trustee's distribution decision may be reviewed for unreasonableness, dishonesty, improper motivation, or failure, if under a duty to do so, to act. This does not, however, raise the beneficiary's support interest to the level of a property interest.
If the trust contains a spendthrift provision, notwithstanding the beneficiary's right to force a distribution with regard to a mandatory or support interest, no creditor may force a distribution with regard to a mandatory or support interest. No creditor may reach present or future support distributions with regard to a mandatory or support interest.
Regardless of whether a beneficiary has any outstanding creditor, a trustee of a mandatory or a support interest may directly pay any expense on behalf of such beneficiary. No trustee is liable to any creditor for paying the expenses of a beneficiary of a mandatory or support interest.
Source: SL 2007, ch 280, § 19; SL 2008, ch 257, § 8; SL 2009, ch 252, § 10.
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