What each source establishes
The Idaho 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 the statutory creditor-deadline clocks the official text states.Every published rule below is quoted in the publisher’s own words rather than summarised.
Simplified-procedure rule
Idaho State Legislature · Idaho Statutes are updated to the website July 1 following the legislative session. · Verified August 9, 2026
(1) The fair market value of the entire estate of the decedent which is subject to probate, wherever located, less liens and encumbrances, does not exceed one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000); (2) Thirty (30) days have elapsed since the death of the decedent
What was published from this source
ID Idaho Code § 15-3-1201
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- ✓threshold $100,000 net of liens, 30 daysmatched
- ✓section identity 15-3-1201matched
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Court cost rule
Idaho State Legislature · Idaho Statutes are updated to the website July 1 following the legislative session. · Verified August 9, 2026
A fee of one hundred seventy-five dollars ($175) for filing a civil case of any type in the district court, except for those cases to be assigned to the magistrate division of the district court for which the fee shall be one hundred twenty dollars ($120)
What this means: The statute states $175 for a general district-court civil case and $120 for a case assigned to the magistrate division, where probate is heard. But § 31-3201A(1) charges that $120 "in addition to" the separate mandatory charges imposed by chapter 20, title 1 (§ 1-2003), by § 31-3201, and by chapter 2, title 73 (§ 73-213). The $120 is therefore only the magistrate-division BASE fee, which this section itself makes additional to at least three other required charges — so it is NOT the operative opening cost, and the true cost of opening a decedent's estate is higher. This site does not publish a single operative Idaho opening fee: the filing fee is presented as a reasoned unknown for exactly this reason.
What was published from this source
ID Idaho Code § 31-3201A(1)
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- ✓magistrate division civil filing fee $120matched
- ✓section identity 31-3201Amatched
- ✓section identitymatched
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Executor compensation rule
Idaho State Legislature · Idaho Statutes are updated to the website July 1 following the legislative session. · Verified August 9, 2026
15-3-719. Compensation of personal representative. A personal representative is entitled to reasonable compensation for his services.
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- ✓reasonable compensation standardmatched
- ✓section identity 15-3-719matched
- ✓section identitymatched
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Creditor deadline rule
Idaho State Legislature · Idaho Statutes are updated to the website July 1 following the legislative session. · Verified August 9, 2026
notifying creditors of the estate to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of the notice or be forever barred. (b) A personal representative may give written notice by mail or other delivery to any creditor, notifying the creditor to present his claim within four (4) months after the published notice if given as provided in subsection (a) of this section or within sixty (60) days after the mailing or delivery of the notice, whichever is later, or be forever barred.
What this means: Subsection (a) sets the four-month publication bar; subsection (b) adds a separate actual-notice period for a creditor served written notice, running to the later of four months after publication or sixty days after mailing/delivery.
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- ✓publication 4-month barmatched
- ✓actual-notice later-of 60 daysmatched
- ✓section identity 15-3-801matched
- ✓section identitymatched
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Creditor deadline rule
Idaho State Legislature · Idaho Statutes are updated to the website July 1 following the legislative session. · Verified August 9, 2026
three (3) years after the decedent's death; or (2) within the time provided in section 15-3-801 (b), Idaho Code, for creditors who are given actual notice, and within the time provided in section 15-3-801 (a), Idaho Code, for all creditors barred by publication.
What was published from this source
ID Idaho Code § 15-3-803(a)
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- ✓outer nonclaim 3 yearsmatched
- ✓section identity 15-3-803matched
- ✓section identitymatched
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