Simplified route
procedure-specific
Summary administration (post-appointment closing); waiting period not verified.
Eligibility and caveatsNew Hampshire estate administration
New Hampshire probate: rules, process, costs, executor fees and deadlines
Small-estate limit: procedure-specific
This guide explains probate in New Hampshire: New Hampshire probate is handled by the Circuit Court’s Probate Division, organized by county. Its summary-administration route is a post-appointment closing mechanism without a dollar cap, not a low-value affidavit procedure.
Sources reviewed August 9, 2026. Latest primary-source re-fetch October 3, 2026.
Answer first
New Hampshire simplified probate route
No single dollar limit; waiting period not verified.
Summary administration (post-appointment closing)Screen a specific New Hampshire estate with the calculators on the small-estate page, or compare states in the full estate navigator.
What the reviewed rules establish
Court cost
Tiered
1 published schedule, itemised on the filing-cost page.
Filing-cost detailExecutor compensation
Court-reviewed
No verified rule is published here.
No personal-representative compensation standard was found in the harvested probate-title statutes. RSA 554:26, suggested during discovery, only requires annual accounts and does not set compensation; the Judiciary rules/resources needed for a further check returned HTTP 403.
Creditor deadline
Multiple triggers
N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. §§ 556:1-:7 (New Hampshire Legislature; reviewed August 9, 2026)
Timeline and creditor detailsNew Hampshire decision map
The four facts that change the New Hampshire route
Each New Hampshire answer below links to the page that sets out its source.
| Question | Recorded New Hampshire answer |
|---|---|
| What route is being screened? | Summary administration (post-appointment closing) |
| What property and basis count? | probate property within the rule's stated scope; gross value for this route. |
| What is the amount screen? | No numeric ceiling verified |
| 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? | 1 published schedule; the proceeding and value basis control the total. |
| What does compensation use? | No verified rule. |
Limits and unresolved costs
- Executor compensation remains UNKNOWN because the suggested RSA does not address compensation and the official court materials returned 403.
- The estate-administration filing fee is now pinned from the official Circuit Court Filing Fees PDF (tiered $150 / $205 / $305, effective 07/01/2025); the HTML fee/forms pages remain HTTP 403 to a machine fetch, and the PDF's Drupal path (documents/2021-06/) could change on re-upload, so the URL needs re-verification each release.
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What New Hampshire courts publish
Every link is probed before each release.
- Fee scheduleNew Hampshire Circuit Court Filing Fees (Probate Division) (PDF)New Hampshire Judicial Branch
Official statewide fee schedule (effective 07/01/2025) listing the tiered $150 / $205 / $305 estate-administration filing fees.
Limits on court material
- The official Circuit Court Probate Division HTML and forms pages return HTTP 403 to a machine fetch, but the official Circuit Court Filing Fees PDF (effective 07/01/2025) is machine-fetchable and returns the estate-administration fee table verbatim; it is the pinned fee source.
- RSA 490-F:3 creates the Probate Division, and RSA 490-F:4 makes each county a judicial district for that division.
New Hampshire primary sources
- N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. §§ 553:32-:33 — RSA 553:32-:33, waiver and summary administration
- N.H. Circuit Court Filing Fees, Probate Division (eff. 07/01/2025); N.H. Prob. Div. R. 169; RSA 490:26-a — New Hampshire Circuit Court Filing Fees — Probate Division
- N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. §§ 556:1-:7 — RSA chapter 556, claims and suits against administrators
- N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. §§ 490-F:3-:4 — RSA 490-F:3-:4, Circuit Court Probate Division
Every quotation, edition label and machine check is on the New Hampshire source record.
New Hampshire record: 4/4 verified, 14 matched checks, latest source re-fetch October 3, 2026. Source record · method · report a correction