New Jersey court costs
New Jersey probate filing cost: not published
County-specific and filing-detail-dependent. Obtain the current probate/administration fee directly from the Surrogate in the county of venue; no statewide total is asserted.
No statewide figure is published. Sources reviewed August 9, 2026. Latest primary-source re-fetch October 3, 2026.
Why New Jersey has no statewide figure
The requested statewide number is not published because Surrogate filing totals depend on the county and filing details; the available 2001 fee enactment is too stale to establish a 2026 operative total. Where the amount is set: Selected county Surrogate; start with an official county Surrogate site such as https://www.bergencountysurrogate.com/.
What the New Jersey figure leaves out
The New Jersey caveats are listed once, on the New Jersey overview.
Other costs: probate cost lines.
The New Jersey surrogate charges by the page, and the schedule is statutory
N.J.S. 22A:2-30 fixes the surrogate’s fees and directs that they "shall be for the use of the county in which the fees are collected." Probate of a will of not more than two pages is $100.00, with $5.00 for each additional page.
That fee is not just for stamping the will. The statute enumerates what it covers: "all services in preparation and execution of complaint, filing proof of death, deposition of one witness, qualification of executor, filing power of attorney, surrogate’s certificate, judgment for probate, letters testamentary, plain copy of will, binding, recording, microfilming or photostating, comparing, docketing, report to the Division of Taxation in the Department of the Treasury, report and transmission to the Clerk of the Superior Court."
Variants are priced separately. Probate of a will of not more than two pages without letters is $50.00 plus $5.00 per additional page, covering the same services "except letters, surrogate’s certificate and qualification of executor." Probate of each codicil not exceeding one page is $25.00, with $5.00 where the codicil requires an additional witness, and $25.00 to reopen probate proceedings for qualification of an executor or to take proof of an extra witness.
Witnesses and copies have their own lines: one witness in the probate proceedings carries no charge, each additional witness is $5.00, a plain extra copy of the will is $3.00 per page, and a certified extra copy is $5.00 per page plus $5.00 for the certificate. Where there are no assets, a will filed but not probated costs $10.00 for the first two pages and $5.00 for each additional page, plus $5.00 for the cover letter stating no assets and $5.00 for the death certificate.
Source: N.J.S. 22A:2-30, read from the enacting state’s own published code on 2026-09-17. Quoted wording is the statute’s; the surrounding explanation is this site’s reading of it and is not legal advice.
New Jersey record: 3/3 verified, 14 matched checks, latest source re-fetch October 3, 2026. Source record · method · report a correction