Arkansas timeline
Arkansas probate timeline and creditor deadlines
The waiting-period requirement has not been verified, so no number is published below.
Arkansas creditor deadlines are set out below against the event each one runs from.
Sources reviewed August 9, 2026. Latest primary-source re-fetch October 3, 2026.
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No waiting-period number is published for the affidavit for collection of small estate (ark. code ann. § 28-41-101) route. 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. Read: Ark. Code Ann. § 28-41-101(a)..
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.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; APPROVED: 03/15/2011.
Creditor deadlines
- From publication of notice to creditors
- Six (6) months from the first publication of the notice to creditors (Ark. Code Ann. § 28-40-111(a)(1)(A), Act 217/2009).
- From actual notice to a known creditor
- Not separately restated by a harvestable enacted Act. Arkansas requires the personal representative to serve known creditors within one (1) month of first publication (§ 28-40-111(a)(4)(A), Act 217/2009), but the claim period applicable to an actually-noticed creditor is set in § 28-50-101(a), which was not amended by (and does not appear in) the harvested Acts; treat as governed by § 28-50-101(a) (Lexis-locked).
- Outer limit, running from death
- Statute of nonclaim: claims not presented to the personal representative or filed with the court within six (6) months after the first publication of notice to creditors are barred (Ark. Code Ann. § 28-50-101(c), Act 217/2009).
How these combine. Arkansas runs separate, trigger-specific creditor deadlines. For a full administration, claims are barred unless filed within six (6) months of the first publication of notice (Ark. Code Ann. § 28-40-111(a)(1)(A), Act 217/2009), and the statute of nonclaim independently bars claims not presented within six (6) months of first publication (§ 28-50-101(c), Act 217/2009). A small-estate affidavit proceeding uses a shorter three (3)-month bar from first publication (§ 28-41-101, Act 526/2015).
to him or her, within three (3) months six (6) months from33 the date of the first publication of the notice, or they shall be forever34 barred and precluded from anyAct 217, §§ 1–2, 2009 Ark. Acts (Reg. Sess.) (amending Ark. Code Ann. § 28-40-111(a)(1)(A) and § 28-50-101(c)) — Arkansas General Assembly / Arkansas Bureau of Legislative Research; APPROVED: 2/20/2009.
General sequence: first week, how long probate takes.
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