South Dakota Codified Laws 55-13A-404. Principal receipts
A trustee shall allocate to principal:
(1) To the extent not allocated to income under this chapter, assets received from a transferor during the transferor’s lifetime, a decedent‘s estate, a trust with a terminating income interest, or a payer under a contract naming the trust or its trustee as beneficiary;
Terms Used In South Dakota Codified Laws 55-13A-404
- Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
- Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Decedent: A deceased person.
- Property: includes property, real and personal. See South Dakota Codified Laws 2-14-2
- Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
(2) Money or other property received from the sale, exchange, liquidation, or change in form of a principal asset, including realized profit, subject to this article;
(3) Amounts recovered from third parties to reimburse the trust because of disbursements described in § 55-13A-502(a)(7) or for other reasons to the extent not based on the loss of income;
(4) Proceeds of property taken by eminent domain, but a separate award made for the loss of income with respect to an accounting period during which a current income beneficiary had a mandatory income interest is income;
(5) Net income received in an accounting period during which there is no beneficiary to whom a trustee may or must distribute income; and
(6) Other receipts as provided in §§ 55-13A-408 to 55-13A-415, inclusive.
Source: SL 2007, ch 282, § 14.