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Arkansas probate filing cost: $25

The small-estate affidavit filing charge is a flat $25.00; certified copies are $5.00 each per copy requested and are not part of the base filing (Ark. Code Ann. § 28-41-101(b)(1)(B), as set by Act 289/2011). The general decedent-estate opening filing fee for a full administration is the circuit-clerk fee under Ark. Code Ann. § 21-6-403, which was only cross-referenced - never restated - by any harvestable enacted Act and is therefore recorded as UNKNOWN below.

$25 is the amount the statute states. Sources reviewed August 9, 2026. Latest primary-source re-fetch October 3, 2026.

What the statute charges

Every line below is computed from the statutory schedule quoted at the end of this page. These are court charges only. They are not an estimate of the total cost of settling an estate.

Small-estate affidavit (§ 28-41-101)

Charge$25,000 estate$100,000 estate$400,000 estate$1,000,000 estate
Affidavit filing fee$25$25$25$25
Total from this schedule$25$25$25$25

Not included in this total

  • Each certified copy of the affidavit, charged $5.00 per copy REQUESTED (not part of the base filing; Ark. Code Ann. § 28-41-101(b)(1)(B), Act 289/2011)
  • General § 21-6-403 circuit-clerk administration filing fee
  • Publication

This is the $25.00 small-estate affidavit filing charge, not the fee to open a full probate administration. Certified copies are $5.00 each and are charged only per copy the filer requests, so they are not included in the base total.

Source: Act 289, § 1, 2011 Ark. Acts (Reg. Sess.) (amending Ark. Code Ann. § 28-41-101(b)(1)(B)), Arkansas General Assembly / Arkansas Bureau of Legislative Research. Edition/currentness: APPROVED: 03/15/2011. Verified October 3, 2026.

What the $25 is made of

Arkansas’s $25 figure is a single statutory charge, not a total assembled from parts. It is shown here with its own provision named, and with the neighbouring charges the Arkansas schedule prices separately — the ones a filer is most likely to add to it by mistake, or to be quoted alongside it.

  • $25Small-estate affidavit filing charge

Added together, these come to $25 — the figure this page headlines. If any component changed in the source, the sum would no longer match, and the build withholds the total rather than publishing a number whose parts no longer add up.

Charges the $25 figure leaves out

These amounts appear in or beside the same Arkansas schedule, so a reader can easily mistake one for part of the fee. Each is held out of the figure above for the specific reason given, which is the difference between an honest total and an inflated one.

A per-copy or per-page charge

Certified-copy charge (enacted $5.00 and stricken prior $3.00)
both figures price a certified copy, charged per copy requested, not part of the base affidavit filing.

What the Arkansas figure leaves out

The Arkansas caveats are listed once, on the Arkansas overview.

Other costs: probate cost lines.

Filing-cost source

Arkansas record: 4/4 verified, 19 matched checks, latest source re-fetch October 3, 2026. Source record · method · report a correction

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