What each source establishes
The Florida guide rests on the source-backed rules this site can verify for the state: which simplified procedure exists and what it limits, what the court charges, how the person administering the estate may be paid, and any statutory creditor-deadline gaps the related guide names rather than guesses through.Every published rule below is quoted in the publisher’s own words rather than summarised.
Simplified-procedure rule
Florida Legislature · The 2026 Florida Statutes · Verified August 7, 2026
(2) That the value of the entire estate subject to administration in this state, less the value of property exempt from the claims of creditors, does not exceed $150,000 or that the decedent has been dead for more than 2 years.
What this means: Florida codifies its statutes once a year, and the 2026 edition has folded in Chapter 2026-57. This page now states the operative $150,000 limit directly, and its history line credits section 7 of chapter 2026-57. The session law remains cited alongside it as the enacting authority.
What was published from this source
smallEstate.alternateNoCapAfterYears = 2
Conditions checked against the live text
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- ✓codified $150,000 ceilingmatched
- ✓two-year alternate routematched
- ✓subsection (1) will conditionmatched
- ✓complete condition list states no waiting periodmatched
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Simplified-procedure rule
Florida Senate · This act shall take effect July 1, 2026 · Verified August 7, 2026
(2) That the value of the entire estate subject to administration in this state, less the value of property exempt from the claims of creditors, does not exceed $150,000 $75,000 or that the decedent has been dead for more than 2 years.
What this means: This is the enacted text and it governs. Florida bills print new wording followed by the wording it replaces, so "$150,000 $75,000" means the limit rose to $150,000 and the old $75,000 figure was struck. The act took effect July 1, 2026.
What was published from this source
smallEstate.threshold = 150000
Conditions checked against the live text
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- ✓$150,000 ceiling enacted for subsection (2)matched
- ✓section 7 amends 735.201(2)matched
- ✓effective July 1, 2026matched
- ✓does not amend the clerk fee or personal representative compensation sectionsmatched
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Court cost rule
Florida Legislature · The 2026 Florida Statutes · Verified August 7, 2026
(e) Fee for summary administration - estates valued at $1,000 or more .......... $340 (f) Fee for summary administration - estates valued at less than $1,000 .......... $230 (g) Fee for formal administration, guardianship, ancillary, curatorship, or conservatorship proceedings .......... $395
What was published from this source
summary administration = 230 below $1,000, 340 at $1,000 or more, plus a $4 service chargeformal administration = 395 plus a $4 service charge
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- ✓$340 summary administration at $1,000 or morematched
- ✓$230 summary administration below $1,000matched
- ✓$395 formal administrationmatched
- ✓$4 additional service charge on these petitionsmatched
- ✓these are maximums the clerk may imposematched
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Executor compensation rule
Florida Legislature · The 2026 Florida Statutes · Verified August 7, 2026
(2) A commission computed on the compensable value of the estate is presumed to be reasonable compensation for a personal representative in formal administration as follows: (a) At the rate of 3 percent for the first $1 million. (b) At the rate of 2.5 percent for all above $1 million and not exceeding $5 million. (c) At the rate of 2 percent for all above $5 million and not exceeding $10 million. (d) At the rate of 1.5 percent for all above $10 million.
What was published from this source
executorCompensation.tiers = 3% to $1M, 2.5% to $5M, 2% to $10M, 1.5% aboveexecutorCompensation.valueBasis = compensable value (inventory value plus estate income)
Conditions checked against the live text
Each condition below must be found in the page as the publisher currently serves it. If any one of them stops matching, the build fails and the figure is withheld rather than published from memory.
- ✓3 percent first $1 millionmatched
- ✓2.5 percent above $1M to $5Mmatched
- ✓2 percent above $5M to $10Mmatched
- ✓1.5 percent above $10 millionmatched
- ✓presumed-reasonable framingmatched
- ✓compensable value definitionmatched
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