What each source establishes
The Washington 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
Washington State Legislature · Section history through 2008 c 6 s 923 · Verified August 7, 2026
(c) That the value of the decedent's entire estate subject to probate, not including the surviving spouse's or surviving domestic partner's community property interest in any assets which are subject to probate in the decedent's estate, wherever located, less liens and encumbrances, does not exceed one hundred thousand dollars; (d) That forty days have elapsed since the death of the decedent;
What was published from this source
smallEstate.threshold = 100000smallEstate.waitingDays = 40smallEstate.valueBasis = net-of-liens
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- ✓$100,000 ceilingmatched
- ✓40-day waitmatched
- ✓less liens and encumbrancesmatched
- ✓surviving spouse community-property interest excluded from the countmatched
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Court cost rule
Washington State Legislature · Section history through 2025 c 357 s 1 · Verified August 7, 2026
(f) In probate proceedings, the party instituting such proceedings, shall pay at the time of filing the first document therein, a fee of $200.
What was published from this source
filingFee.amount = 290 (200 base + 40 + 50 mandatory surcharges)components = 200 base, 40 subsection (5)(c) surcharge, 50 subsection (6) surcharge
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- ✓$200 probate base fee, in the probate clause itselfmatched
- ✓$40 surcharge applies to all fees except (2)(b), (d), (h)matched
- ✓$50 surcharge lists subsection (2)(f) expresslymatched
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Executor compensation rule
Washington State Legislature · Section history through 2026 c 204 s 7 · Verified August 7, 2026
The personal representative, when no compensation is provided in the will, when he or she renounces all claim to the compensation provided in the will, or when he or she administers an intestate estate, shall be allowed such compensation for his or her services as the court shall deem just and reasonable.
What was published from this source
executorCompensation.kind = reasonable
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- ✓section identity is RCW 11.48.210 compensationmatched
- ✓just and reasonable standardmatched
- ✓personal representative subjectmatched
- ✓court sets the amountmatched
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Creditor deadline rule
Washington State Legislature · Section history through 2005 c 97 s 4 · Verified August 7, 2026
(b) The personal representative shall cause the notice to be published once each week for three successive weeks in a legal newspaper in the county in which the estate is being administered; (c) The personal representative may, at any time during the probate proceeding, give actual notice to creditors who become known to the personal representative by serving the notice on the creditor or mailing the notice to the creditor at the creditor's last known address, by regular first-class mail, postage prepaid;
What was published from this source
creditorClaims.publication = notice published once each week for three successive weekscreditorClaims.actualNotice trigger = actual notice served or mailed to a known creditor
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- ✓notice follows appointment and requires claims within RCW 11.40.051matched
- ✓published once each week for three successive weeksmatched
- ✓actual notice option to known creditors by service or mailingmatched
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Creditor deadline rule
Washington State Legislature · Section history through 2005 c 97 s 6 · Verified August 7, 2026
(a) If the personal representative provided notice under RCW 11.40.020 and the creditor was given actual notice as provided in RCW 11.40.020 (1)(c), the creditor must present the claim within the later of: (i) Thirty days after the personal representative's service or mailing of notice to the creditor; and (ii) four months after the date of first publication of the notice; (b) If the personal representative provided notice under RCW 11.40.020 and the creditor was not given actual notice as provided in RCW 11.40.020 (1)(c): (i) If the creditor was not reasonably ascertainable, as defined in RCW 11.40.040 , the creditor must present the claim within four months after the date of first publication of notice; (ii) If the creditor was reasonably ascertainable, as defined in RCW 11.40.040 , the creditor must present the claim within twenty-four months after the decedent's date of death; and (c) If notice was not provided under this chapter or chapter 11.42 RCW, the creditor must present the claim within twenty-four months after the decedent's date of death.
What was published from this source
creditorClaims.actualNotice = later of 30 days after actual notice and four months after first publicationcreditorClaims.publication = four months after first publication when not reasonably ascertainable or given no actual noticecreditorClaims.outerLimit = 24 months after death when reasonably ascertainable but no actual notice, or no notice given under the chapter
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- ✓actual notice: later of 30 days after service or mailing and four months after first publicationmatched
- ✓not reasonably ascertainable: four months after first publicationmatched
- ✓reasonably ascertainable but no actual notice: 24 months after deathmatched
- ✓no notice under chapter 11.40 or 11.42: 24 months after deathmatched
- ✓bar reaches both probate and nonprobate assetsmatched
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