Estate Settlement Cost

Ohio source record

Every source behind the Ohio guide

3 statutes, quoted verbatim and checked against 9 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 Ohio 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

Ohio Rev. Code § 2113.03(A)

Ohio Laws and Administrative Rules · Effective: January 13, 2012 · Verified August 7, 2026

(A) Subject to division (I) of this section, an estate may be released from administration under division (B) of this section if either of the following applies: (1) The value of the assets of the estate is thirty-five thousand dollars or less. (2) The value of the assets of the estate is one hundred thousand dollars or less and either of the following applies:

What was published from this source

  • smallEstate.threshold = 35000
  • smallEstate.spouseThreshold = 100000

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.

  • $35,000 general ceiling
  • $100,000 surviving-spouse ceiling
  • surviving-spouse condition
  • release conditions are value-based, with no waiting period stated

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Court cost rule

Ohio Rev. Code § 2101.16

Ohio Laws and Administrative Rules · Effective: September 30, 2025 · Verified August 7, 2026

(A) Except as provided in section 2101.164 of the Revised Code, the fees enumerated in this division shall be charged and collected, if possible, by the probate judge and shall be in full for all services rendered in the respective proceedings:

What was published from this source

  • filingFee.amount = unknown (statutory base plus local additions)

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.

  • fee schedule is statutory
  • county-level variation is contemplated

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Executor compensation rule

Ohio Rev. Code § 2113.35

Ohio Laws and Administrative Rules · Effective: September 29, 2015 · Verified August 7, 2026

(A) Executors and administrators shall be allowed fees upon the amount of all the personal property, including the income from the personal property, that is received and accounted for by them and upon the proceeds of real property that is sold, as follows: (1) For the first one hundred thousand dollars, at the rate of four per cent; (2) All above one hundred thousand dollars and not exceeding four hundred thousand dollars, at the rate of three per cent; (3) All above four hundred thousand dollars, at the rate of two per cent.

What was published from this source

  • executorCompensation.tiers = 4% to $100k, 3% to $400k, 2% above

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.

  • 4 percent first $100,000
  • 3 percent to $400,000
  • 2 percent above $400,000

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What Ohio 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

  • Ohio adopts statewide standard probate forms, but each county probate court sets its own filing charges and local rules.

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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