Estate Settlement Cost

North Carolina source record

Every source behind the North Carolina guide

3 statutes, quoted verbatim and checked against 16 named conditions that must appear in the live government text. Open the record, read the words the legislature actually used, and confirm the current rule for yourself.

Last full re-fetch August 8, 2026

What each source establishes

The North Carolina guide rests on three rules: which simplified procedure exists and what it limits, what the court charges, and how the person administering the estate may be paid. Each is quoted below in the statute’s own words rather than summarised.

Simplified-procedure rule

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 28A-25-1

North Carolina General Assembly · Publisher states no version on this page · Verified August 7, 2026

(a) When a decedent dies intestate leaving personal property, less liens and encumbrances thereon, not exceeding twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) in value, at any time after 30 days from the date of death

What was published from this source

  • smallEstate.threshold = 20000
  • smallEstate.spouseThreshold = 30000
  • smallEstate.waitingDays = 30
  • smallEstate.valueBasis = net-of-liens
  • smallEstate.assetScope = personal-only

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.

  • $20,000 general ceiling
  • $30,000 surviving-spouse ceiling
  • 30-day wait
  • personal property, less liens
  • surviving-spouse ceiling applies after the statutory spousal allowance
  • route applies when the decedent dies intestate

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Court cost rule

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 7A-307

North Carolina General Assembly · Publisher states no version on this page · Verified August 7, 2026

(2) For support of the General Court of Justice, the sum of one hundred six dollars ($106.00), plus an additional forty cents (40¢) per one hundred dollars ($100.00), or major fraction thereof, of the gross estate, not to exceed six thousand dollars ($6,000).

What was published from this source

  • filingFee.amount = 106 base General Court of Justice cost
  • filingFee valuation charge = $0.40 per $100 of gross estate, capped at $6,000
  • filingFee technology surcharge = $4.00
  • gross estate excludes the value of realty not sold

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.

  • $15 minimum for each filing
  • $106 General Court of Justice base
  • 40 cents per $100 valuation charge
  • $6,000 statutory cap
  • $4.00 technology surcharge
  • realty value excluded from gross estate

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Executor compensation rule

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 28A-23-3

North Carolina General Assembly · Publisher states no version on this page · Verified August 7, 2026

(a) Personal representatives, collectors or public administrators shall be entitled to commissions to be fixed in the discretion of the clerk of superior court not to exceed five percent (5%) upon the amounts of receipts, including the value of all personal property when received, and upon the expenditures made in accordance with law.

What was published from this source

  • executorCompensation.kind = ceiling
  • executorCompensation.tiers = 5% ceiling on receipts and expenditures

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.

  • five percent ceiling
  • receipts and expenditures basis
  • clerk discretion, not automatic
  • $2,000 gross-estate discretion floor

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What North Carolina courts publish

The statutes on this page state the rule. These are the documents the court itself publishes. Every link is probed before release, and any link that stops resolving fails the build rather than staying on the page.

Limits on court material

  • North Carolina publishes both a statewide affidavit form and a statewide cost schedule, so the numbers on this page can be checked against the court's own publication.

How to check this yourself

  1. Open the citation link. It goes to the publishing government body, not to a summary.
  2. Search the page for the quoted sentence. It is reproduced here exactly, so a text search should land on it.
  3. Compare the figures. If the statute has changed since the verification date above, the statute governs and this page is wrong.
  4. Report the difference. Naming the citation and the language you see maps onto a specific condition in the list above, which makes the correction verifiable.

Scope of these records

These sources cover the cost and route questions this site answers. They do not cover intestate succession shares, spousal and family allowances, creditor priority, tax filing obligations, real-property transfer mechanics, or contested proceedings. Where an answer would require one of those, the site says so rather than estimating.

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