Simplified route
procedure-specific
Petition for Order Declaring No Administration Necessary; waiting period not verified.
Eligibility and caveatsGeorgia estate administration
Georgia probate: rules, process, costs, executor fees and deadlines
Small-estate limit: procedure-specific
This guide explains probate in Georgia: Georgia uses a Probate Court order declaring no administration necessary, not a value-capped small-estate affidavit.
Sources reviewed August 9, 2026. Latest primary-source re-fetch October 3, 2026.
Answer first
Georgia simplified probate route
No single dollar limit; waiting period not verified.
Petition for Order Declaring No Administration NecessaryScreen a specific Georgia estate with the calculators on the small-estate page and the executor-fee page, or compare states in the full estate navigator.
What the reviewed rules establish
Court cost
$190
1 published schedule, itemised on the filing-cost page.
Filing-cost detailExecutor compensation
Statutory schedule
A statutory percentage schedule applies. Source: Ga. L. 1996, Act No. 754; O.C.G.A. § 53-6-60(b).
Compensation detailCreditor deadline
Not published
Timeline and creditor detailsGeorgia decision map
The four facts that change the Georgia route
Each Georgia answer below links to the page that sets out its source.
| Question | Recorded Georgia answer |
|---|---|
| What route is being screened? | Petition for Order Declaring No Administration Necessary |
| What property and basis count? | probate property within the rule's stated scope; gross value for this route. |
| What is the amount screen? | No numeric ceiling verified |
| What is the time or deadline record? | No waiting-period number verified; creditor deadlines: not published here |
| What does the cost record establish? | $190 is the recorded statewide amount. |
| What does compensation use? | Statutory percentage schedule, measured on money received and paid out during administration. |
Limits and unresolved costs
- No dollar threshold exists for no administration necessary; the numeric field is structurally inapplicable.
- No universal waiting period was found for the Georgia procedure.
- No creditor actual-notice-specific deadline or ultimate nonclaim/repose period was verified.
- HB 327’s harvested enrolled text contains no express effective-date clause.
- The $175 base was shipped as the operative opening fee while the mandatory $15 civil filing fee sat in the component list unused, so Georgia understated its own total by $15 — the same class of defect as Oklahoma's $188. Caught by the composed-figure gate, which requires the shipped total to equal the sum of its asserted components.
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What Georgia courts publish
Every link is probed before each release.
- Forms indexGeorgia Probate Court standard formsCouncil of Probate Court Judges of Georgia
Includes GPCSF 9.
- Official formGPCSF 9, Petition for Order Declaring No Administration Necessary (PDF)Administrative Office of the Courts of Georgia
- Court resourceGeorgia Probate Courts DirectoryCouncil of Probate Court Judges of Georgia
Limits on court material
- Georgia publishes a statewide standard no-administration petition and an official Probate Court directory.
Georgia primary sources
- Ga. L. 1996, Act No. 754; O.C.G.A. §§ 53-2-40 to 53-2-42 — Georgia Laws 1996, Act No. 754 (HB 1030)
- 2025 HB 327, §§48, 55, 59 — HB 327 (2025), as passed House and Senate
- Ga. L. 1996, Act No. 754; O.C.G.A. § 53-6-60(b) — Georgia Laws 1996, Act No. 754 (HB 1030)
- 2024 SB 232, §§1, 3, 6; O.C.G.A. §§15-9-60(e), 15-21A-6(b) — SB 232 (2024), as passed
Every quotation, edition label and machine check is on the Georgia source record.
Georgia record: 4/4 verified, 24 matched checks, latest source re-fetch October 3, 2026. Source record · method · report a correction