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Oklahoma estate administration

Oklahoma probate: rules, process, costs, executor fees and deadlines

Small-estate limit: $50,000

This guide explains probate in Oklahoma: Oklahoma probate is handled by the District Court. Estates can proceed by a $50,000 collection affidavit (58 O.S. § 393), by dispensing with regular proceedings in estates up to $150,000 after appointment of a personal representative (§ 241), or by summary administration under § 245 (estate value not exceeding $200,000, or a decedent deceased more than five years, or a nonresident decedent). Personal-representative commissions follow the 5%/4%/2.5% schedule of 58 O.S. § 527.

Sources reviewed August 9, 2026. Latest primary-source re-fetch October 3, 2026.

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Oklahoma simplified probate route

Up to $50,000; usable 10 days after death. Source: 58 O.S. § 393.

Affidavit for collection (58 O.S. § 393); dispensing with regular proceedings in estates under $150,000 (58 O.S. § 241); summary administration (58 O.S. § 245)

Screen a specific Oklahoma estate with the calculators on the small-estate page and the executor-fee page, or compare states in the full estate navigator.

What the reviewed rules establish

Simplified route

$50,000

Affidavit for collection (58 O.S. § 393); dispensing with regular proceedings in estates under $150,000 (58 O.S. § 241); summary administration (58 O.S. § 245); usable 10 days after death.

Eligibility and caveats

Executor compensation

Statutory schedule

A statutory percentage schedule applies. Source: 58 O.S. § 527.

Compensation detail

Oklahoma decision map

The four facts that change the Oklahoma route

Each Oklahoma answer below links to the page that sets out its source.

QuestionRecorded Oklahoma answer
What route is being screened?Affidavit for collection (58 O.S. § 393); dispensing with regular proceedings in estates under $150,000 (58 O.S. § 241); summary administration (58 O.S. § 245)
What property and basis count?probate property within the rule's stated scope; net of enforceable liens and encumbrances.
What is the amount screen?$50,000
What is the time or deadline record?10 days after death; creditor deadlines: not published here
What does the cost record establish?$173 is the recorded statewide amount.
What does compensation use?Statutory percentage schedule, measured on the estate accounting.

Limits and unresolved costs

  • The cohort brief's §241/§393 labels were reversed relative to the harvested titles; the dossier follows the harvested text (§393 = $50,000 collection affidavit, §241 = $150,000 dispensing-with-regular-proceedings). Verifier correction applied: 58 O.S. § 245 (not § 241) is Oklahoma's summary-administration provision, with a $200,000 value threshold plus alternate routes for a decedent deceased more than five years or a nonresident decedent; § 241 is the separate 'dispensing with regular proceedings in estates under $150,000' route requiring a filed petition for probate and an appointed personal representative. Both are now sourced to the Oklahoma State Senate os58.pdf (§§ 241 and 245).
  • FIGURE CHANGE: filing-fee total revised from $188 to $173. The Oklahoma State Senate 2019-12 edition sets OCASA at $5 (subsection D), not $10, and sunsets the $10 Records Management surcharge (subsection G) on Nov 1, 2023 rather than 2027. Permanent statewide surcharges therefore total $135 + $6 + $25 + $5 + $2 = $173. The cited edition may trail a later reauthorization of the records-management fee that OSCN reflected; OSCN is no longer fetchable to confirm.

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What Oklahoma courts publish

Every link is probed before each release.

No Oklahoma court document is linked here. The notes below state why, rather than leaving the absence unexplained.

Limits on court material

  • Oklahoma probate is heard in the District Court of each county. There is no single statewide small-estate affidavit form promulgated by the Oklahoma courts; the affidavit is a statutory instrument under 58 O.S. § 393.
  • The Oklahoma State Courts Network (oscn.net) now answers automated requests with a bot-challenge page rather than the document, so no Oklahoma court link is published here: this site links only court material it can prove reachable. OSCN remains the official source for Oklahoma court forms and dockets -- open it directly in a browser, or ask the court clerk in the county of filing.

Oklahoma primary sources

  • 58 O.S. § 393 — 58 O.S. § 393 - Payment or delivery of property to successor by affidavit (small estate affidavit)
  • 58 O.S. § 241 — 58 O.S. § 241 - Dispensing with regular proceedings in estates under $150,000
  • 58 O.S. § 245 — 58 O.S. § 245 - Petition for summary administration - Conditions - Requirements
  • 58 O.S. § 527 — 58 O.S. § 527 - Fees and commissions
  • 28 O.S. § 152 — 28 O.S. § 152 - Flat fee schedule - In forma pauperis

Every quotation, edition label and machine check is on the Oklahoma source record.

Oklahoma record: 5/5 verified, 23 matched checks, latest source re-fetch October 3, 2026. Source record · method · report a correction