The class was negai fudai (quasi fudai daimyo) in the generation of Yasumasa WAKISAKA and was formally promoted to fudai daimyo (a daimyo in hereditary vassal to the Tokugawa family) in the generation of Yasutada WAKISAKA.
なお、家格は脇坂安政の代に願譜代となり、脇坂安董の代に正式に譜代大名に上げられた。