K.S.A. 59-104
Reviewed source note: 59-213 , and amendments thereto 23.50 Decrees in probate from another state 173.00 Probate of an estate or of a will 109.50 Civil commitment under K.S.A.
Kansas court costs
Kansas probate filing cost: $109.50
K.S.A. 59-104 sets a statewide docket fee of $109.50 for the probate of an estate or of a will. A temporary $22 non-judicial-personnel surcharge applied only 'On and after July 1, 2019, through June 30, 2025' and has expired, so $109.50 is the operative fee as of the review date.
$109.50 is the amount the statute states. Sources reviewed August 9, 2026. Latest primary-source re-fetch October 3, 2026.
What the statute charges
Kansas states one statewide amount rather than a schedule of components, so there is no line-by-line breakdown to compute. The figure above is that amount. It is a court charge only, and it is not an estimate of the total cost of settling an estate.
Kansas publishes no component breakdown for this cost.
The statute states one statewide amount rather than a schedule of parts, so there is nothing to itemise. The figure shown above is that amount, and the linked source is the text that sets it.
What the $109.50 is made of
Kansas’s $109.50 figure is a single statutory charge, not a total assembled from parts. It is shown here with its own provision named, and with the neighbouring charges the Kansas schedule prices separately — the ones a filer is most likely to add to it by mistake, or to be quoted alongside it.
- $109.50Docket fee for probate of an estate or will, K.S.A. 59-104
Added together, these come to $109.50 — the figure this page headlines. If any component changed in the source, the sum would no longer match, and the build withholds the total rather than publishing a number whose parts no longer add up.
Charges the $109.50 figure leaves out
These amounts appear in or beside the same Kansas schedule, so a reader can easily mistake one for part of the fee. Each is held out of the figure above for the specific reason given, which is the difference between an honest total and an inflated one.
A fee for a different filing
- Treatment-of-mental-illness docket fee
- the $34.50 is the docket fee for a mental-illness treatment case, a different proceeding.
- Treatment-of-alcoholism/drug-abuse docket fee
- the second $34.50 is the docket fee for an alcoholism or drug-abuse treatment case, a different proceeding.
- Determination of descent of property docket fee
- the $49.50 is the docket fee for a determination-of-descent proceeding, a different proceeding.
- Life-estate/joint-tenancy/refusal/adoption/will-filing docket fees
- the five $48.50 docket fees (termination of life estate, termination of joint tenancy, refusal to grant letters of administration, adoption, and filing a will and affidavit under K.S.A. 59-618a) are each a different proceeding from probate of an estate or will.
- Certified probate proceedings docket fee, K.S.A. 59-213
- the $23.50 is the docket fee for certified probate proceedings under K.S.A. 59-213, a different proceeding.
- Decrees in probate from another state docket fee
- the $173.00 is the docket fee for filing probate decrees from another state, a different proceeding.
- Civil-commitment docket fee, K.S.A. 59-29a01
- the $33.50 is the docket fee for a civil-commitment proceeding under K.S.A. 59-29a01 et seq., a different proceeding.
A charge that has expired
- Non-judicial-personnel surcharge
- the supreme court could impose this "through June 30, 2025"; that window has closed, so the surcharge is no longer collectible.
What the Kansas figure leaves out
The Kansas caveats are listed once, on the Kansas overview.
Other costs: probate cost lines.
Filing-cost source
Kansas record: 7/7 verified, 24 matched checks, latest source re-fetch October 3, 2026. Source record · method · report a correction