What each source establishes
The Michigan 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
Michigan Legislature · MCL Complete Through PA 103 of 2026 · Verified August 9, 2026
On a showing of evidence, satisfactory to the court, of payment of the expenses for the decedent's funeral and burial and if the balance of a decedent's gross estate consists of property of the value of $50,000.00 or less, the court may order that the property be turned over to the surviving spouse or, if there is not a spouse, to the decedent's heirs.
What this means: The displayed $50,000 is a statutory base amount, not the current calendar-year ceiling; MCL 700.1210 requires an annual published adjustment.
What was published from this source
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- ✓base amount and funeral deductionmatched
- ✓real-property secured-debt deductionmatched
- ✓adjustment cross-referencematched
- ✓section identitymatched
- ✓currentnessmatched
- ✓section identitymatched
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Simplified-procedure rule
Michigan Legislature · MCL Complete Through PA 103 of 2026 · Verified August 9, 2026
After 28 days after a decedent's death, a person indebted to the decedent or having possession of tangible personal property or an instrument evidencing a debt, obligation, stock, or chose in action belonging to the decedent shall pay the indebtedness or deliver the tangible personal property or the instrument to a person claiming to be the decedent's successor
What this means: The displayed $50,000 is adjusted under MCL 700.1210; this dossier does not publish it as the current threshold.
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- ✓waiting periodmatched
- ✓scope and base amountmatched
- ✓appointment disqualifiermatched
- ✓section identitymatched
- ✓currentnessmatched
- ✓section identitymatched
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Threshold indexing rule
Michigan Legislature · MCL Complete Through PA 103 of 2026 · Verified August 9, 2026
Beginning January 1, 2024, those specific dollar amounts must be multiplied by the 2023 cost-of-living adjustment factor for the calendar year in which the decedent dies.
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- ✓annual adjustment rulematched
- ✓treasury publication and roundingmatched
- ✓section identitymatched
- ✓currentnessmatched
- ✓section identitymatched
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Court cost rule
Michigan Legislature · MCL Complete Through PA 103 of 2026 · Verified August 9, 2026
Except as otherwise provided in this section and section 880a, at the time of commencing a civil action or proceeding in the probate court, the party commencing the civil action or proceeding shall pay a $150.00 filing fee to the probate court register.
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- ✓general opening feematched
- ✓3982 opening feematched
- ✓section identitymatched
- ✓currentnessmatched
- ✓section identitymatched
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Court cost rule
Michigan Legislature · MCL Complete Through PA 103 of 2026 · Verified August 9, 2026
In all decedents' estates in which proceedings are instituted for probate, the probate court shall charge and collect the following fees as an expense of administration on the value of all assets, as of the date of death of the decedent
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- ✓inventory fee basismatched
- ✓inventory fee schedule identitymatched
- ✓encumbered realty deductionmatched
- ✓payment timingmatched
- ✓section identitymatched
- ✓currentnessmatched
- ✓section identitymatched
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Executor compensation rule
Michigan Legislature · MCL Complete Through PA 103 of 2026 · Verified August 9, 2026
A personal representative is entitled to reasonable compensation for services performed. A personal representative may pay the personal representative's own compensation periodically as earned without prior court approval.
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- ✓reasonable compensationmatched
- ✓will and contract treatmentmatched
- ✓section identitymatched
- ✓currentnessmatched
- ✓section identitymatched
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Creditor deadline rule
Michigan Legislature · MCL Complete Through PA 103 of 2026 · Verified August 9, 2026
upon appointment a personal representative shall publish, and a special personal representative may publish, a notice as provided by supreme court rule notifying estate creditors to present their claims within 4 months after the date of the notice's publication or be forever barred.
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- ✓publication triggermatched
- ✓known creditor notice timingmatched
- ✓section identitymatched
- ✓currentnessmatched
- ✓section identitymatched
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Creditor deadline rule
Michigan Legislature · MCL Complete Through PA 103 of 2026 · Verified August 9, 2026
If the notice requirements of section 3801 or 7608 have not been met, within 3 years after the decedent's death.
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- ✓publication deadlinematched
- ✓known creditor deadlinematched
- ✓outer limit without noticematched
- ✓section identitymatched
- ✓currentnessmatched
- ✓section identitymatched
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Court cost rule
Michigan Department of Treasury (State Treasurer) · January 31, 2025 · Verified August 9, 2026
the 2023 cost-of-living adjustment factor for the 2025 calendar year is 1.029
What this means: This is the official annual Treasury publication that MCL 700.1210(3) requires. Table B lists the operative adjusted dollar amounts for MCL 700.3982(1)&(2) and MCL 700.3983 as $51,000 for decedents dying in calendar year 2025 (base $50,000 as amended by 2024 PA 1, × the 2023 cost-of-living adjustment factor of 1.029, rounded to the nearest $1,000). Reached only after the Treasury search endpoint's HTTP 403 was bypassed by locating the notice PDF through the Treasury 'reports-archive/archived-economic-reports/estates' page.
What was published from this source
MI Mich. Dep't of Treasury, EPIC Cost-of-Living Adjustments (MCL 700.1210), Table B, calendar year 2025 (certified Jan. 31, 2025)
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- ✓2025 cola factormatched
- ✓table B operative $51,000 for 3982/3983matched
- ✓3982/3983 base $50,000 under 2024 PA 1matched
- ✓section identitymatched
- ✓currentnessmatched
- ✓section identitymatched
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Simplified-procedure rule
Michigan Department of Treasury (State Treasurer) · January 30, 2026 · Verified August 9, 2026
the 2023 cost-of-living adjustment factor for the 2026 calendar year is 1.057
What this means: The official annual Treasury publication that MCL 700.1210(3) requires, signed by the State Treasurer on January 30, 2026. Table B lists $53,000 for MCL 700.3982(1)&(2) and MCL 700.3983 for decedents dying in calendar year 2026 (base $50,000 as amended by 2024 PA 1 x the 2023 cost-of-living adjustment factor of 1.057 = $52,850, rounded to the nearest $1,000). The notice's later pages are only readable through pdf.js, so its source check declares that engine.
What was published from this source
MI Mich. Dep't of Treasury, EPIC Cost-of-Living Adjustments (MCL 700.1210), Table B, calendar year 2026 (certified Jan. 30, 2026)
Conditions checked against the live text
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- ✓2026 cola factormatched
- ✓table B operative $53,000 for 3982/3983matched
- ✓3982/3983 base $50,000 under 2024 PA 1matched
- ✓section identitymatched
- ✓currentnessmatched
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