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Minnesota probate filing cost: $310

Section 357.021, subdivision 2, charges a $310 first-paper fee to the petitioner or moving party in every district-court civil action or proceeding. County law-library charges and service, publication, copy, and bond costs are outside this statutory base.

$310 is the amount the statute states. Sources reviewed August 9, 2026. Latest primary-source re-fetch October 3, 2026.

What the statute charges

Every line below is computed from the statutory schedule quoted at the end of this page. These are court charges only. They are not an estimate of the total cost of settling an estate.

First filing by petitioner in a district-court civil proceeding

Charge$25,000 estate$100,000 estate$400,000 estate$1,000,000 estate
Statewide first-paper fee$310$310$310$310
Total from this schedule$310$310$310$310

Not included in this total

  • County law-library fee
  • Publication, certified copies, service, and bond costs

The affidavit route is ordinarily presented to the property holder rather than filed to open a probate case.

Source: Minn. Stat. § 357.021, subd. 2(1), Minnesota Revisor of Statutes. Edition/currentness: This section has been affected by law enacted during the 2026 Regular Session.. Verified October 3, 2026.

What the $310 is made of

Minnesota’s $310 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 Minnesota schedule prices separately — the ones a filer is most likely to add to it by mistake, or to be quoted alongside it.

  • $310First-paper filing fee

Added together, these come to $310 — 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 $310 figure leaves out

These amounts appear in or beside the same Minnesota 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

Marriage-dissolution filing fee
the $340 applies only to marriage-dissolution actions, a different proceeding.
First-paper fee for the responding/adverse party, Minn. Stat. s 357.021 subd. 2(1)
the second $310 is the identical first-paper fee owed by the defendant or other adverse/intervening party, not an additional charge layered on the petitioner's filing fee this product prices.

What the Minnesota figure leaves out

The Minnesota caveats are listed once, on the Minnesota overview.

Other costs: probate cost lines.

Filing-cost source

Minnesota record: 5/5 verified, 16 matched checks, latest source re-fetch October 3, 2026. Source record · method · report a correction

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