Indiana timeline
Indiana probate timeline: the 45-day wait and creditor deadlines
The simplified route starts 45 days after death.
Indiana 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 small-estate affidavit (dispensing with administration) route requires 45 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.
one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000), for the estate of an individual who dies after June 30, 2022. (2) That forty-five (45) days have elapsed since the death of the decedent. (3) That no application or petition for the appointment of a personal representative is pending or has been granted in any jurisdiction.IC 29-1-8-1 — Indiana General Assembly; Indiana Code 2025.
Creditor deadlines
- From publication of notice to creditors
- Three months after the date of first published notice to creditors.
- Outer limit, running from death
- Nine months after death for claims barrable under IC 29-1-14-1(a), subject to listed exceptions.
How these combine. Multiple distinct deadlines prevent an honest single days value. Ordinary claims are generally filed within three months after first publication, while claims barrable under subsection (a) face a nine-month-from-death outer bar, subject to statutory exceptions including specified governmental, lien, and tort claims. No separate actual-notice or appointment deadline was verified in this section.
all claims against a decedent's estate, other than expenses of administration and claims of the United States, the state, or a subdivision of the state, whether due or to become due, absolute or contingent, liquidated or unliquidated, founded on contract or otherwise, shall be forever barred against the estate, the personal representative, the heirs, devisees, and legatees of the decedent, unless filed with the court in which such estate is being administered within: (1) three (3) months after the date of the first published notice to creditors;IC 29-1-14-1 — Indiana General Assembly; Indiana Code 2025.
General sequence: first week, how long probate takes.
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