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New Hampshire probate filing cost: $305

The New Hampshire Circuit Court Probate Division publishes a statewide estate-administration filing fee that steps with estate value: a Petition for Estate Administration is $150 for a value of $10,000 or less, $205 for $10,001 to $25,000, and $305 for more than $25,000 (schedule effective 07/01/2025, issued under Probate Division Rule 169 and RSA 490:26-a). The footnoted total is the base fee plus any Supreme-Court-authorized surcharges; certified-mail and later-accounting fees are separate.

$305 is the statutory total at a $100,000 estate. 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.

Petition for Estate Administration (Circuit Court, Probate Division)

Published value bands

These are the fee bands stated in the source. The worked examples below apply them to sample values; they do not replace the published thresholds.

New Hampshire estate-administration filing fee by estate value
Value bandPublished fee
Up to $10,000$150
More than $10,000 to $25,000$205
More than $25,000$305
Charge$25,000 estate$100,000 estate$400,000 estate$1,000,000 estate
New Hampshire estate-administration filing fee by estate value$205$305$305$305
Total from this schedule$205$305$305$305

Not included in this total

  • Certified-mail costs for orders of notice (RSA 463:6, V)
  • Accounting fee for estates over $25,000 gross value
  • Supreme-Court-authorized surcharges added to the base fee

The schedule's "Total Fee" is the base filing fee plus any applicable surcharges authorized by the Supreme Court and/or New Hampshire statutes; the band figures are the base estate-administration fees.

Source: N.H. Circuit Court Filing Fees, Probate Division (eff. 07/01/2025); N.H. Prob. Div. R. 169; RSA 490:26-a, New Hampshire Judicial Branch. Edition/currentness: 07/01/2025. Verified October 3, 2026.

What the New Hampshire figure leaves out

The New Hampshire caveats are listed once, on the New Hampshire overview.

Other costs: probate cost lines.

Filing-cost source

New Hampshire record: 4/4 verified, 14 matched checks, latest source re-fetch October 3, 2026. Source record · method · report a correction

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