Simplified route
$75,000
Small estate affidavit (K.S.A. 59-1507b); Kansas Simplified Estates Act administration (K.S.A. 59-3201 to 59-3206); waiting period not verified.
Eligibility and caveatsKansas estate administration
Kansas probate: rules, process, costs, executor fees and deadlines
Small-estate limit: $75,000
This guide explains probate in Kansas: Kansas probate is handled by the District Court. Small estates up to $75,000 in personal property transfer by affidavit (K.S.A. 59-1507b), and the Kansas Simplified Estates Act (K.S.A. 59-3201 to 59-3206) offers a streamlined court administration in lieu of full supervision. The statewide probate docket fee is $109.50 (K.S.A. 59-104), and fiduciary compensation is 'just and reasonable' under K.S.A. 59-1717 with no statutory percentage schedule.
Sources reviewed August 9, 2026. Latest primary-source re-fetch October 3, 2026.
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Kansas simplified probate route
Up to $75,000; waiting period not verified. Source: K.S.A. 59-1507b.
Small estate affidavit (K.S.A. 59-1507b); Kansas Simplified Estates Act administration (K.S.A. 59-3201 to 59-3206)Screen a specific Kansas 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
$109.50
One statewide amount.
Filing-cost detailExecutor compensation
Court-reviewed
No percentage schedule; the court decides what is reasonable. Source: K.S.A. 59-1717.
Compensation detailCreditor deadline
Multiple triggers
K.S.A. 59-2239 (Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes; reviewed August 9, 2026)
Timeline and creditor detailsStatutes read in full for Kansas
Read on the enacting state’s own site, with the date each was read.
| Citation | What reading it established | Read on |
|---|---|---|
| K.S.A. § 59-1507b (transfer of certain personal property to successor) | Kansas transfers the property without any court at all, and the receipt itself discharges the payer — small estate route note | 2026-09-17 |
| K.S.A. § 59-1717 (compensation and expenses), L. 1939, ch. 180, § 147 | Kansas publishes no percentage at all, and pays the fiduciary and the attorney under the same standard — representative pay note | 2026-09-17 |
| K.S.A. § 59-2239 (claims against estate; time for filing; when barred) | Kansas bars the claim on one clock and the creditor’s standing to have any claim at all on a second — creditor deadline note | 2026-09-17 |
Kansas decision map
The four facts that change the Kansas route
Each Kansas answer below links to the page that sets out its source.
| Question | Recorded Kansas answer |
|---|---|
| What route is being screened? | Small estate affidavit (K.S.A. 59-1507b); Kansas Simplified Estates Act administration (K.S.A. 59-3201 to 59-3206) |
| What property and basis count? | personal probate property only; gross value for this route. |
| What is the amount screen? | $75,000 |
| What is the time or deadline record? | No waiting-period number verified; creditor deadlines: separate clocks by triggering event |
| What does the cost record establish? | $109.50 is the recorded statewide amount. |
| What does compensation use? | Reasonable compensation set by the court, measured on the estate accounting. |
Limits and unresolved costs
- The $22 non-judicial-personnel docket surcharge under K.S.A. 59-104 expired June 30, 2025; the operative fee is $109.50. If revived by later legislation this must be rechecked.
- No Kansas Judiciary court-resource URL could be included because kscourts.gov and kjc.ks.gov return 403 to automated clients; the statewide small-estate form is the Kansas Judicial Council Decedent's Estate affidavit.
- Creditor framework now sourced to K.S.A. 59-2239 and 59-2236 (four months from first publication; 30 days from actual notice to a known creditor, later-of; estate must be opened within six months of death). The four-month and six-month periods are stated in months and are left as descriptions rather than fixed day counts.
- Kansas Simplified Estates Act (K.S.A. 59-3201 to 59-3206) added as a distinct administration route; it is procedure-based (K.S.A. 59-3202 court determination) rather than a dollar threshold, so no numeric cap is asserted for it.
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What Kansas courts publish
Every link is probed before each release.
No Kansas court document is linked here. The notes below state why, rather than leaving the absence unexplained.
Limits on court material
- Kansas probate is heard in the District Court of each county. The Kansas Judicial Council promulgates the statewide small-estate affidavit and decedent's-estate forms, but the Kansas Judiciary websites (kscourts.gov and the Judicial Council at kjc.ks.gov) return HTTP 403 to automated clients, so no court-resource URL could be verified as reachable for inclusion; the controlling forms live under the Kansas Judicial Council 'Decedent's Estate' probate forms.
Kansas primary sources
- K.S.A. 59-1507b — K.S.A. 59-1507b Small estate affidavit
- K.S.A. 59-2239 — K.S.A. 59-2239 Claims against estate; time for filing; when barred
- K.S.A. 59-2236 — K.S.A. 59-2236 Notice to creditors
- K.S.A. 59-3201 — K.S.A. 59-3201 Citation of act (Kansas Simplified Estates Act)
- K.S.A. 59-3202 — K.S.A. 59-3202 Administration as simplified estate or supervised estate; determination by court
- K.S.A. 59-1717 — K.S.A. 59-1717 Compensation and expenses of fiduciaries
- K.S.A. 59-104 — K.S.A. 59-104 Docket fee
Every quotation, edition label and machine check is on the Kansas source record.
Kansas record: 7/7 verified, 24 matched checks, latest source re-fetch October 3, 2026. Source record · method · report a correction