Oklahoma timeline
Oklahoma probate timeline: the 10-day wait and creditor deadlines
The simplified route starts 10 days after death.
Oklahoma creditor deadlines are not verified to this site’s standard, so none is published below.
Sources reviewed August 9, 2026. Latest primary-source re-fetch October 3, 2026.
The one date this page can source
The 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) route requires 10 days to elapse from the date of death. This is a precondition: the affidavit or petition cannot be presented before it runs, regardless of how straightforward the estate is.
1. The fair market value of property located in this state owned by the decedent and subject to disposition by will or intestate succession at the time of the decedent's death, less liens and encumbrances, does not exceed Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00);58 O.S. § 393 — Oklahoma State Senate; Laws 2017, c. 73, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2017..
Creditor deadlines
Oklahoma runs a presentation period keyed to publication of notice to creditors plus special rules for known creditors; a single number would conflate publication and actual-notice triggers.
Read this: 58 O.S. §§ 331, 333, 591–594 (notice to and presentation of creditor claims); § 243 (limitation of claims in a § 241 dispensing proceeding); §§ 245–247 (summary administration notice and presentation deadlines). The probate clerk in the county of filing can also state the local practice, which sometimes differs from the bare statutory minimum.
General sequence: first week, how long probate takes.
Oklahoma record: 5/5 verified, 23 matched checks, latest source re-fetch October 3, 2026. Source record · method · report a correction