Probatly

For executors and families settling an estate

Probate deadlines, forms and fees — verified for your state.

Someone has died, and the paperwork has landed on you. Probatly walks you through what to do, in what order, in your state — with the official forms, the real fees, and every deadline computed from the statute itself. Every figure on this site is checked against the law it cites, and stamped with the date it was verified.

Do I need probate?

Five questions. Get the likely route for your state — small-estate affidavit, a summary route, full probate, or probably no probate at all.

Start the triage →

Deadline tracker

Enter the date of death and the date your letters were issued. We compute your creditor windows, inventory deadline and statutory bars — each with its statute.

Compute my deadlines →

Official forms index

Every state’s official probate forms in one place — form numbers, what each one is for, and the court’s own link. No third-party form sellers.

Find the forms →

Start with your state

Probate is state law, and the details that matter — thresholds, fees, deadlines — are different in every state. These ten states are fully researched and verified; the remaining states are being added in waves, and their pages will say so honestly until they are.

Verified Nov 7, 2026 — state data checked against official statutes and court schedules. See the data tables →

Why the date stamps?

The law moves. Most websites don’t.Florida doubled its summary-administration limit to $150,000 on July 1, 2026 — four months later, most pages still show the old $75,000. Illinois raised its affidavit limit in August 2025; California in April 2025. Stale figures are the norm in this corner of the internet.

Every figure carries its source.Each threshold, fee and deadline on Probatly names the statute or court schedule it comes from, so you — or your attorney — can check it in seconds. Where a figure is set by counties rather than the state, we say that instead of inventing a number.

Re-verified twice a year.The full data set is re-checked every January and July, when most state changes take effect — and the stamp on each figure updates with it. Read how we verify →

The two paths, ready now

Full step-by-step state paths — first 48 hours through closing — are live for Florida and Texas, the two states where verified guidance helps most right now. California and New York follow next; the verified data, forms and deadlines for all ten researched states are already in the forms index, the deadline tracker and the data tables.