Idaho timeline
Idaho probate timeline: the 30-day wait and creditor deadlines
The simplified route starts 30 days after death.
Idaho 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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The collection of personal property by affidavit (idaho code § 15-3-1201) route requires 30 days to elapse from the date of death. This is a precondition: the affidavit or petition cannot be presented before it runs, regardless of how straightforward the estate is.
(1) The fair market value of the entire estate of the decedent which is subject to probate, wherever located, less liens and encumbrances, does not exceed one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000); (2) Thirty (30) days have elapsed since the death of the decedentIdaho Code § 15-3-1201 — Idaho State Legislature; Idaho Statutes are updated to the website July 1 following the legislative session..
Creditor deadlines
- From publication of notice to creditors
- Within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of the notice to creditors (Idaho Code § 15-3-801(a)).
- From actual notice to a known creditor
- For a creditor given written notice by mail or delivery, the later of four (4) months after the published notice or sixty (60) days after the mailing/delivery of the notice, whichever is later (Idaho Code § 15-3-801(b)).
- Outer limit, running from death
- Three (3) years after the decedent's death, whichever is earlier (Idaho Code § 15-3-803(a)(1)).
How these combine. Idaho runs multiple independently-triggered claim deadlines that cannot honestly collapse into one number: a four-month bar running from first publication of the notice to creditors (§ 15-3-801(a)); a separate actual-notice period for a creditor given written notice by mail, running to the later of four months after publication or sixty (60) days after the mailing/delivery of the notice (§ 15-3-801(b)); and an outer nonclaim bar of three years after death (§ 15-3-803(a)(1)). Publishing a single figure would mislead.
notifying creditors of the estate to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of the notice or be forever barred. (b) A personal representative may give written notice by mail or other delivery to any creditor, notifying the creditor to present his claim within four (4) months after the published notice if given as provided in subsection (a) of this section or within sixty (60) days after the mailing or delivery of the notice, whichever is later, or be forever barred.Idaho Code § 15-3-801 — Idaho State Legislature; Idaho Statutes are updated to the website July 1 following the legislative session..
Idaho carves state taxes out of the claims bar entirely
Idaho Code § 15-3-803 bars pre-death claims unless presented within the earlier of three years after death, or the notice periods in § 15-3-801(b) for creditors given actual notice and § 15-3-801(a) for creditors barred by publication.
The Idaho drafting contains an exception the neighbouring uniform states do not. Where Montana, Arizona and North Dakota bar claims “including claims of the state and any subdivision,” Idaho writes “including claims of the state and any subdivision thereof (except claims for state taxes).” The parenthesis appears in both the pre-death provision and the post-death provision. Idaho state tax claims are outside the nonclaim bar, so closing an Idaho estate on the basis that the claims window has shut does not dispose of them.
The three-year outer limit is the same length as North Dakota’s unnoticed-estate bar and three times Montana’s one year, which is worth holding in mind when an estate touches more than one of these states.
Idaho’s bar runs against the estate, the personal representative, and the heirs and devisees of the decedent. Nonprobate transferees are not named, so assets that passed by beneficiary designation are not swept in by this section the way Montana’s and North Dakota’s equivalents sweep them in.
Source: Idaho Code § 15-3-803, 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.
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