Afterborn heirs

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SD Code › Title 29A › Chapter 2 › Section 29A-2-108

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An individual is treated as living at that time if the individual was conceived prior to a decedent's death, born within ten months of a decedent's death, and survived one hundred twenty hours or more after birth.

Source: SL 1995, ch 167, § 2-108; SL 2007, ch 247, § 3.

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