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 the Huron area from its office on Illinois Avenue SW in Huron. Handles testate and intestate probates, from appointing a personal representative through creditor claims and distribution to heirs, plus guardianships, conservatorships, and protecting vulnerable adults from financial exploitation. Also drafts trusts, wills, and powers of attorney, including farm estate planning.

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Serves Watertown and northeast South Dakota from an office on South Broadway. Handles administration of trusts and estates, probate matters, wills and trusts, guardianships, and farm family succession planning. Partner Nancy Oviatt, at the firm since 1988, concentrates on estate planning and trust and estate administration.

Since 1916Estate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateGuardianshipTrustsWills

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

Serves clients throughout South Dakota from offices in Sioux Falls, Rapid City, and Belle Fourche. Handles probate administration, guardianships and conservatorships, and wills and trusts, working with clients' financial advisors on wealth transfer, asset protection, and business succession.

Since 1946Serves the whole stateEstate PlanningProbateConservatorshipGuardianshipAsset Protection+2