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Every source behind the Oregon guide

6 primary records, quoted verbatim and checked against 26 named presence or absence conditions that must pass against the live government text. Open the record, read the words the publishing body actually used, and confirm the current rule for yourself.

Last full re-fetch October 3, 2026

What each source establishes

The Oregon 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

ORS 114.505 to 114.560

Oregon Legislature · 2025 EDITION · Verified August 9, 2026

Not more than $75,000 of the fair market value of the estate is attributable to personal property other than manufactured homes

What was published from this source

  • OR ORS 114.505 to 114.560

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.

  • personal property threshold
  • real property threshold
  • gross value basis
  • 30 day wait
  • section identity
  • section identity

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Executor compensation rule

ORS 116.173

Oregon Legislature · 2025 EDITION · Verified August 9, 2026

(A) Seven percent of any sum not exceeding $1,000. (B) Four percent of all above $1,000 and not exceeding $10,000. (C) Three percent of all above $10,000 and not exceeding $50,000. (D) Two percent of all above $50,000.

What was published from this source

  • OR ORS 116.173

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.

  • commission percentage schedule
  • one percent non-jurisdiction property component
  • section identity
  • section identity

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Court cost rule

ORS 21.170

Oregon Legislature · 2025 EDITION · Verified August 9, 2026

If the value of the estate is less than $50,000, $278. (b) If the value of the estate is $50,000 or more, but less than $1 million, $591.

What was published from this source

  • OR ORS 21.170

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.

  • probate filing fee bands
  • band 50k to 1m
  • band 1m to 10m
  • band 10m plus
  • section identity
  • section identity

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Court cost rule

ORS 21.145

Oregon Legislature · 2025 EDITION · Verified August 9, 2026

21.145 Simple proceeding filing fee. In the following proceedings, a circuit court shall collect a filing fee of $124

What was published from this source

  • OR ORS 21.145

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.

  • simple estate affidavit fee
  • section identity
  • section identity

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Creditor deadline rule

ORS 115.005

Oregon Legislature · 2025 EDITION · Verified August 9, 2026

(2) Except as provided in subsection (3) of this section, a claim is barred from payment from the estate if not presented within the statute of limitations applicable to the claim and before the later of: (a) Four months after the date of publication of notice to interested persons; or (b) If the claim was one with respect to which the personal representative was required to deliver or mail a notice under ORS 115.003 (2), 45 days after a notice meeting the requirements of ORS 115.003 (3) is delivered or mailed to the last-known address of the person asserting the claim.

What was published from this source

  • OR ORS 115.005

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.

  • OR later-of publication and actual notice bar
  • OR bar tied to claim's own statute of limitations
  • OR 115.005 section identity
  • section identity

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Court and venue rule

ORS 111.075

Oregon Legislature · 2025 EDITION · Verified August 9, 2026

111.075 Probate jurisdiction vested. Jurisdiction of all probate matters, causes and proceedings is vested in the county courts of Gilliam, Grant, Harney, Malheur, Sherman and Wheeler Counties and in the circuit court for each other county and as provided in ORS 111.115.

What was published from this source

  • OR ORS 111.075

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.

  • OR county-court probate counties
  • OR 111.075 section identity
  • section identity

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Statutes read in full for Oregon

Read on the enacting state’s own site, with the date each was read.

CitationWhat reading it establishedRead on
ORS 21.170 (probate filing fees and accounting fees)Oregon sets its probate filing fee by estate value, and charges a second fee every time an accounting is filed — court and filing cost note2026-09-17
ORS 114.510, 114.515Oregon splits its threshold in two, and counts manufactured homes with the real property — small estate route note2026-09-17
ORS 116.173Oregon pays a sliding commission — and adds 1% of property that never entered probate — representative pay note2026-09-17
ORS 115.005, ORS 115.185The four-month Oregon claims window is a floor, not a deadline — the real cut-off is the final account — creditor deadline note2026-09-17

What Oregon courts publish

Every link is probed before each release.

Limits on court material

  • Oregon probate is generally handled by the Circuit Court in each county, EXCEPT that under ORS 111.075 jurisdiction of all probate matters is vested in the COUNTY COURTS of Gilliam, Grant, Harney, Malheur, Sherman and Wheeler Counties; ORS 111.115 lets an estate proceeding be transferred from a county court to the circuit court. The Oregon Judicial Department publishes a statewide estate/small-estate affidavit form set. (The previously listed /forms/Pages/probate.aspx and /courts/Pages/probate.aspx URLs return the OJD 404 page and were replaced with the working estate-forms and courts-directory pages.)

Checking these Oregon records against the publishers

Every citation above links to the body that publishes it, and every quoted sentence is reproduced exactly, so a text search on the publisher’s own page should land on it. Where the publisher’s current wording differs from what is recorded here, the publisher governs and this page is wrong; naming the citation and the language you see maps the difference onto a specific condition rather than a general complaint. The full procedure, including how a source qualifies in the first place and what disqualifies one, is set out once on the methodology page instead of being restated on each of the267 state records.

These records cover the cost and route questions this site answers for Oregon. 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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