Probate in Beadle County

Probate Court Record

Beadle County Circuit Court

Beadle County · 3rd Judicial Circuit

Hours

Monday-Friday 8:00 AM-5:00 PM

Office

450 3rd Street Southwest, Huron, SD 57350

Filing in person

Walk-ins accepted

Self-represented filing

Allowed

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Verified October 16, 2026 · Source

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Conservatorship Firms Serving Beadle County

Eleven-attorney firm serving clients in South Dakota and North Dakota from its Aberdeen office in Brown County. Handles probate of estates, guardianships and conservatorships, and wills and trusts, alongside banking, business, family, personal injury, and criminal defense work.

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Serves clients from offices in Watertown, Milbank, and Arlington. Handles probate and simpler alternatives to it, successor-trustee trust administration, ancillary probates of out-of-state estates, and guardianships and conservatorships, alongside wills, powers of attorney, and trusts. Bills estate work by the time spent on the file, not a percentage of assets.

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Serves Aberdeen and northeastern South Dakota from one office. Handles probate, wills, living wills and health directives, durable powers of attorney, revocable, irrevocable and special-needs trusts, and guardianships and conservatorships. Plans for farm and ranch families whose land values have changed.

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Serves eastern South Dakota from offices in Brookings and Watertown. Handles uncontested probate of a will, intestate administration, trust administration for successor trustees of revocable living trusts, business interests in probate, and estate administration for personal representatives who live outside South Dakota. The Brookings practice traces back more than 100 years.

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Serves Sioux Falls and southeast South Dakota from its downtown Sioux Falls office. Handles probate and estate administration, trust administration, guardianships and conservatorships, contested estate matters, and special-needs and charitable planning. Founded in Sioux Falls by Frank L. Boyce in 1878.

Since 1878Serves the whole stateVirtual consultationsEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate LitigationElder Law+4

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Healthcare Power of Attorney

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