Alabama route screening
The procedure may be structural, indexed, locally published, or unavailable in the accepted source record; this page does not infer a dollar figure.
Sources reviewed August 9, 2026. Latest primary-source re-fetch October 3, 2026.
Alabama allows summary distribution where the decedent owned no real property and the estate value does not exceed the "small estate amount" — a CPI-indexed sum of the homestead, exempt-property, and family allowances (Ala. Code § 43-2-691), adjusted every three years under § 43-8-116. Petition may proceed at least 30 days after publication of notice of its filing. Because the operative indexed figure is an administrative publication not sourced here, the threshold is published as UNKNOWN with its mechanism captured.
Threshold evidence and currency
Currency: No threshold figure is published, so there is no current numeric figure or superseding figure to report. The reason and the next primary-source lane are stated below.
Threshold source status: No accepted primary-source quotation sets a numeric threshold for this page.
Why no figure is published: Alabama’s "small estate amount" is not a fixed statutory figure: Ala. Code § 43-2-691(7) defines it as the CPI-adjusted sum of the homestead allowance (§ 43-8-110), exempt property (§ 43-8-111), and family allowance (§§ 43-8-112/113), with the dollar amounts adjusted every three years by the State Treasurer under § 43-8-116 and published administratively. The current operative figure is an Administrative Office of Courts / Treasurer publication that was not machine-harvested this session, so no single number is asserted.
Next primary-source lane: Ala. Code § 43-8-116 (CPI adjustment) and the Alabama Administrative Office of Courts / State Treasurer published adjusted amounts; base amounts at §§ 43-8-110, 43-8-111.
| Procedure | Summary distribution of small estate (Ala. Code §§ 43-2-690 to 43-2-692) |
|---|---|
| What counts | Personal property only; real property is outside this route |
| Value basis | Gross value less exempt property the worksheet cannot classify |
| Waiting period | 30 days after death |
The Alabama caveats that can change this answer are listed once, on the Alabama overview.
What a small-estate screen can and cannot decide, and which assets never enter it, is explained once in small-estate affidavit or probate and what counts as a probate asset.
Reviewed source note: At least 30 days have elapsed since the notice of the filing of the petition was published as provided in subsection
What this means: Fetched via the ALISON GraphQL Section-by-displayId endpoint (returns clean JSON). Establishes the 30-day post-publication waiting period for summary distribution.
Alabama record: 7/7 verified, 23 matched checks, latest source re-fetch October 3, 2026. Source record · method · report a correction