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Florida probate timeline and creditor deadlines
The statute states no universal waiting period for this route.
Florida creditor deadlines are not verified to this site’s standard, so none is published below.
Sources reviewed August 7, 2026. Latest primary-source re-fetch October 3, 2026.
The one date this page can source
The statute for this route states no universal waiting period. That is recorded as “none stated” rather than as zero days, because a statute’s silence is not the same as a stated permission to proceed immediately. Other conditions in the same section still apply.
Florida also provides a route that does not depend on value once the decedent has been dead for more than 2 years.
Creditor deadlines
The creditor-notice and claim-bar deadlines have not been verified to this site's primary-source standard, so no number is published.
Read this: Fla. Stat. ch. 733, part VII (claims against the estate). The probate clerk in the county of filing can also state the local practice, which sometimes differs from the bare statutory minimum.
Florida’s claim bar runs from publication or from service, whichever falls later
Fla. Stat. § 733.702(1) bars a very wide class of claims — claims that arose before death, including those of the state and its political subdivisions "even if the claims are unmatured, contingent, or unliquidated," funeral and burial expenses, claims for personal property in the personal representative’s possession, and damages claims "including, but not limited to, an action founded on fraud or another wrongful act or omission of the decedent" — unless the claim is filed in the probate proceeding by the deadline.
The deadline is expressed as a later-of: "on or before the later of the date that is 3 months after the time of the first publication of the notice to creditors or, as to any creditor required to be served with a copy of the notice to creditors, 30 days after the date of service on the creditor." A creditor who is served late therefore gets its own thirty-day window that can run past the three-month publication date.
The statute also closes the usual escape routes. Recognition does not revive a claim: the bar applies "even though the personal representative has recognized the claim or demand by paying a part of it or interest on it or otherwise." Subsection (3) makes an untimely claim barred "even though no objection to the claim is filed," and an extension "may be granted only upon grounds of fraud, estoppel, or insufficient notice of the claims period."
All of this sits under § 733.710, which § 733.702(1) names first. The three-month and thirty-day periods operate inside that outer limit, not independently of it.
Source: Fla. Stat. § 733.702, read from the enacting state’s own published code on 2026-09-17. Quoted wording is the statute’s; the surrounding explanation is this site’s reading of it and is not legal advice.
General sequence: first week, how long probate takes.
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