The South Dakota Uniform Probate Code shall be liberally construed and applied to promote simplification, clarification, and efficiency in the law of decedent's estates, guardianship and conservatorship, and multiple-party accounts and other nonprobate transfers. Source: SL 1995, ch 167 , § 1-102; SL 1998, ch 282 , § 44; SL 2017, ch 208 , § 37.