Arkansas route screening

Arkansas small-estate limit: Not established from a primary source

No threshold was established from a primary source in this review.

The procedure may be structural, indexed, locally published, or unavailable in the accepted source record; this page does not infer a dollar figure.

Arkansas provides a small-estate affidavit under Ark. Code Ann. § 28-41-101.

Sources reviewed August 9, 2026. Latest primary-source re-fetch October 3, 2026.

1. Where and when

StateArkansasFixed to this page. Open the navigator to compare another state.Date of deathRequired. Without it no waiting period can be tested and the route stays undecided.

2. What they left

Asset 1

DescriptionValue$Not entered. A blank amount is not counted as zero.Enforceable liens or mortgage$Not entered. Enter 0 if there is no lien.OwnershipThis is real property

Asset 2

DescriptionValue$Not entered. A blank amount is not counted as zero.Enforceable liens or mortgage$Not entered. Enter 0 if there is no lien.OwnershipThis is real propertyWill it be sold during administration?Some court charges are assessed on sale proceeds and exclude real property that is kept, so this changes the amount.

Ownership determines whether an asset usually enters probate. Choose “Not sure” when title or beneficiary status has not been confirmed.

Private by design: entries stay in this browser.

Your working estimate

Arkansas estate snapshot

Route check

More information is needed

Counted probate estate: not yet counted

A valid date of death is required before any waiting period can be tested.

Gross probate propertyNot yet counted

Court chargeMore information neededSmall-estate affidavit (§ 28-41-101)2 asset entries have no value entered. A blank amount is not treated as zero, so the charge cannot be computed.Court charges only, for the proceeding named beside each figure. That proceeding is not always the route screened above.

Scheduled executor compensationMore information needed2 asset entries have no value entered.Ark. Code Ann. § 28-48-108 fixes personal-representative compensation as a statutory percentage schedule on personal property. No Arkansas Act in the text-extractable era (2001–2025) amended or restated § 28-48-108 (zero hits in the full-text Act search at www.arkleg.state.ar.us), and the codified section is served only through the LexisNexis contract. The percentage schedule is therefore recorded as UNKNOWN rather than reproduced from memory.

This route check is general information, not legal advice. It does not test every eligibility condition, creditor issue, will provision, local fee, or asset-title fact.

The affidavit filing fee ($25.00, plus $5.00 per certified copy) and the three-month small-estate creditor bar are substantiated from enacted Acts (289/2011 and 526/2015). The dollar value ceiling and the statutory 45-day waiting period live in subsection (a), which was not reachable via any enacted Act and is otherwise only in the LexisNexis-contracted code; both are recorded as honest UNKNOWNs rather than guessed.

Threshold evidence and currency

What the reviewed source establishes

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: Ark. Code Ann. § 28-41-101(a) fixes the small-estate value ceiling and the 45-day post-death waiting period, but subsection (a) was not amended by any text-extractable Arkansas Act in the digital era (the Arkansas Acts published as machine-readable PDFs begin ~2001; pre-2000 acts are scanned images that harvest THIN with no extractable text). The official Arkansas Code is served only through the LexisNexis contract (an unusable JavaScript app), and arkleg.state.ar.us blocks the codified-page tool. Only the fee subsection (b), the notice subsection (b)(2)(B), and the creditor sections were reachable via enacted Acts.

Next primary-source lane: Ark. Code Ann. § 28-41-101(a) via the LexisNexis-hosted Arkansas Code, or a post-2001 Arkansas Act amending § 28-41-101(a) at www.arkleg.state.ar.us Act search (none located 2001–2025).

How the Arkansas screen is measured

Procedure	Affidavit for collection of small estate (Ark. Code Ann. § 28-41-101)
What counts	The probate estate within the statute’s scope, so solely owned real property can count
Value basis	Gross value less exempt property the worksheet cannot classify
Waiting period	Not verified, so no number is published

The 45-day waiting period is stated in § 28-41-101(a), which — as above — is Lexis-locked and was never restated by a harvestable enacted Act.

The Arkansas caveats that can change this answer are listed once, on the Arkansas overview.

The official Arkansas path

Arkansas Judiciary — Forms and Publications — Arkansas Administrative Office of the Courts
Arkansas Circuit Courts (probate jurisdiction) — Arkansas Administrative Office of the Courts

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.

Controlling source

Session law

Act 289, § 1, 2011 Ark. Acts (Reg. Sess.) (amending Ark. Code Ann. § 28-41-101(b)(1)(B))

Reviewed source note: He or she shall make a charge of twenty-five dollars28 ($25.00) for filing the affidavit and three dollars ($3.00) five dollars29 ($5.00) for each certified copy.

What this means: Enacted session law (strikethrough convention: struck old text, then new text). The affidavit filing fee is $25.00 and the certified-copy fee is raised from $3.00 to $5.00. Substantiates the small-estate affidavit filing charge under § 28-41-101(b)(1)(B).

Arkansas General Assembly / Arkansas Bureau of Legislative Research · Edition/currentness: APPROVED: 03/15/2011 · Verified October 3, 2026

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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