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Terms Used In South Carolina Code 62-7-102

  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • Inter vivos: Transfer of property from one living person to another living person.
  • Probate: Proving a will
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
This article applies to express trusts, charitable or noncharitable, and trusts created pursuant to a statute, judgment, or decree that requires the trust to be administered in the manner of an express trust. The term ‘express trust’ includes both testamentary and inter vivos trusts, regardless of whether the trustee is required to account to the probate court, and includes, but is not limited to, all trusts defined in § 62-1-201(49). This article does not apply to constructive trusts, resulting trusts, conservatorships administered by conservators as defined in § 62-1-201(6), administration of decedent‘s estates, all multiple party accounts referred to in § 62-6-101 et seq., custodial arrangements, business trusts providing for certificates to be issued to beneficiaries, common trust funds, voting trusts, security arrangements, liquidation trusts, and trusts for the primary purpose of paying debts, dividends, interest, salaries, wages, profits, pensions, or employee benefits of any kind, or any arrangement under which a person is nominee or escrowee for another.