Delaware Ancillary Probate

Delaware runs a real ancillary administration, and the letters can come from any of its three counties. 12 Del. C. § 1504(b) says letters of ancillary administration for a nondomiciliary decedent shall be granted by the Register of Wills for any county, and the administration first lawfully granted reaches every Delaware asset and excludes the other two Registers.

The route families miss sits one subchapter over. 12 Del. C. § 1562 lets a bank, broker or debtor holding a nonresident's Delaware personal property pay or deliver it to the home state executor 60 days after the death, with no Delaware filing at all. Delaware real estate is what usually rules that out and forces a case here.

Every rule below was read on September 10, 2026 in Titles 12, 25 and 30 of the Delaware Code at delcode.delaware.gov, and every county figure was read the same day on that Register of Wills' own published schedule. Delaware has no probate court. Probate runs through the Register of Wills, an officer who acts only as a Clerk of the Court of Chancery under 12 Del. C. § 2501, and the county where the property sits decides which of the three offices you deal with. This page describes how Delaware law reads rather than how it applies to one estate, so confirm your own facts with the Register holding the file or with a licensed Delaware attorney.

Three Routes Out, and Only One of Them Is a Delaware Estate

Subchapter V of Chapter 15 is Delaware's foreign representative law, and it offers a family three exits rather than one.

The first is payment with no Delaware proceeding, under § 1562. The second is a filing that stops short of an estate, under § 1565, where the home state representative lodges exemplified copies of the appointment and then acts here. The third is a full ancillary administration under § 1504(b), run start to finish on Delaware law. § 1568 says that for the local administration of a nonresident decedent's estate, this title governs the proceedings before a Register of Wills or the Court of Chancery for probate of the will, appointment, removal, supervision and discharge of the local personal representative, and any other order concerning the estate, along with the status, powers, duties and liabilities of that representative and the rights of claimants, purchasers and distributees.

Two of the three shut off the moment somebody opens a case. § 1567 says the powers under § 1562 and § 1565 may be exercised only while no administration or application for one is pending in Delaware, and that a petition for local administration terminates the § 1566 power outright. The Court of Chancery can let the foreign representative keep limited powers to preserve the estate in the meantime. Anyone who changed position in reliance on those powers before receiving actual notice of the local case is protected, and the local representative inherits the duties that accrued and may be substituted into any pending Delaware action.

The Route With No Delaware Case At All

§ 1562 is short and it does a lot of work. At any time after 60 days from the death of a nonresident decedent, a person indebted to the estate, or holding property of the decedent, or holding an instrument evidencing a debt, obligation, stock or chose in action, may pay or deliver it to the domiciliary foreign personal representative. What the holder needs is proof of appointment plus an affidavit made by or on behalf of the representative stating three things: the date of death, that no local ancillary administration or application for one is pending in Delaware, and that the representative is entitled to payment or delivery.

§ 1563 is what makes a bank willing to act on it. Payment or delivery made in good faith on that proof and affidavit releases the payer to the same extent as payment to a local personal representative. The holder is not underwriting the family's paperwork.

§ 1564 is the brake, and it belongs to Delaware creditors. Payment under § 1562 may not be made where a resident creditor of the nonresident decedent has notified the debtor or the holder that the debt should not be paid or the property not delivered. § 1561(4) defines a resident creditor broadly, as a person domiciled in or doing business in Delaware who is, or could be, a claimant against a nonresident decedent's estate. One letter from a Delaware business closes this route and pushes the family toward a filing.

Filing the Home State's Papers Instead of Opening a Case

§ 1565 sits between doing nothing and opening an estate. Where no local ancillary administration or petition for one is pending, a domiciliary foreign personal representative may file with the Register of Wills of a county where the decedent's property is located exemplified copies of the appointment and of any official bond given.

§ 1566 says what that filing buys. A domiciliary foreign personal representative who has complied with § 1565 may exercise as to assets in Delaware all powers of a local personal representative, and may maintain actions and proceedings here, subject to the conditions imposed on nonresident parties generally. One condition rides along with it: the representative must comply with § 1905 on the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets consisting of tangible personal property and real estate actually situated within Delaware.

Price that inventory duty before choosing this route. § 1905(a) gives an executor or administrator three months from the grant of letters to file an inventory and appraisal, with a copy filed in every county where the decedent owned real estate, listing the goods and chattels, the debts and credits, and a description of every parcel of Delaware real estate the decedent died seized of or transferred by a transfer on death deed, each parcel carrying its parcel identification number and each item valued at fair market value as of the date of death. § 1906 backs it with a $1 per day penalty that starts one month after the Register gives notice of the delinquency.

Getting the Out-of-State Will Admitted Here

§ 1307 is the section that moves a Pennsylvania or Maryland will onto a Delaware deed. Subsection (a) opens with the whole point: the written will of a testator who died domiciled outside Delaware, but who owned real estate or personal property located here, may be admitted to probate and recorded in Delaware.

There are two ways in. Where the will has already been admitted to probate in the domiciliary jurisdiction, the Delaware filing is a verified copy of the will plus a verified copy of the record admitting it. Where the will has not been admitted at home, has not been rejected there except for a cause that would not be grounds for rejecting a Delaware domiciliary's will, and is valid under Delaware law, it is proved here in the ordinary way under §§ 1302 to 1305. Both paths end in the same place. § 1307(a) says the will then has the same force and effect as if it had been originally proved and allowed in Delaware.

§ 1307(b) is fussy about the certificate, and that is where filings get bounced. The copy must be certified by the proper officer under that officer's hand and seal of office, and there must also be a certificate, either under the great seal of the state, territory or country or under the hand of the presiding judge of a court of record there, that the copy is certified in due form and by the proper officer. Where the presiding judge signs, the officer keeping the court's seal must attest that the certificate is under the hand of a presiding judge entitled to full faith and credit. For a will proved in a foreign country, the presiding judge's certificate may be attested by the resident United States Consul-General or a deputy under the seal of the Consulate General.

Subsection (c) says where it all lands. The will or its verified copy, and any verified copy of the record admitting it, is recorded in the office of the Register of Wills of any county where the testator's real estate or personal property is located, and that record or an office copy is sufficient evidence. Delaware is generous on execution formalities to begin with: § 1306(a) validates a will executed in compliance with § 202 of Title 12, or with the law of the place of execution, or with the law of the place where the testator was domiciled, kept a place of abode or held nationality at execution or at death. What Delaware asks of a will made here is set out in the Delaware will requirements guide.

Only one county prices this filing on its own line. Sussex County's schedule carries proof of a will from out of state at $20.00, and it charges $25.00 to request a lodged will from another state. Kent County publishes the second of those at $25.00 and not the first. New Castle County's schedule prints neither line, so what that office charges for the same filing has to come from the office rather than from the page.

Ancillary Letters, and Which County Grants Them

§ 1504(b) is the venue answer for an ancillary administration, and it is unusually relaxed. Letters of ancillary administration, with or without the will annexed, of a nondomiciliary decedent's estate shall be granted by the Register of Wills for any county. The administration first lawfully granted extends to all the estate of the decedent within Delaware and excludes the jurisdiction of the Register for any other county. § 1507(c) repeats the same first-come rule for an administration granted during litigation over the will or the right to administer.

Letters testamentary follow a tighter rule. § 1502(a) grants them, where a nondomiciliary's will has been admitted to probate here, in the county in which the decedent owned real or personal property. Read the two sections together and the practical answer is the same for most families: file where the property is, which is usually where the family will have to deal with a Recorder of Deeds anyway.

Who may hold the letters is set by § 1505. Where there is no executor, the classes run spouse of the decedent, then children, then parents, then siblings of the whole and half blood, and the letters go to everyone in the first class with a living member who is not under an incapacity and who gives any necessary bond. Where nobody in that class qualifies and they cannot agree in writing on a nominee, the Court of Chancery picks. § 1505(d) hands the choice to the Register's discretion where no petition for administration is filed within 60 days from the date of death, and § 1505(e) lets any interested person petition. § 1508 disqualifies a minor, a person who is mentally incapacitated, and a person convicted of a crime disqualifying them from taking an oath.

Bond is the pleasant surprise. § 1522 requires none before letters issue except where the will expressly requires it or the Court of Chancery orders it under § 1524, and § 1524 lets any person with an interest worth more than $2,000, or a creditor with a claim over $2,000, demand one. What the job involves once the letters are in hand is covered in the Delaware executor duties guide, and the Delaware probate process walks the domestic version of the same file.

What an Out-of-State Executor Has to Sign

§ 1506 catches nearly every ancillary personal representative, because the person holding the home state letters is by definition a nondomiciliary. Before the letters issue, that executor or administrator, or a corporation not incorporated under Delaware law, must file with the granting Register an irrevocable power of attorney designating that Register and the Register's successors in office as the person on whom all notices and process issued by any Delaware court may be served, with the same effect as personal service in any matter affecting the estate. The Register then forwards anything served, by certified mail with return receipt requested, to the address stated in the document.

All three counties publish the form and price it. New Castle County lists it in its forms library under the heading for a personal representative who is an out-of-state resident and charges $5 to file a power of attorney where the personal representative is not a Delaware resident. Kent County labels its copy as required for any non-Delaware resident who opens an estate for probate in Delaware, at $5.00. Sussex County prints the line as a power of attorney for a non-resident, at $2.00. Keep the address in that document current, because it is the address Delaware will use to tell you that someone has sued the estate.

One more signature matters where the papers were notarized somewhere else. § 1573 sends the authentication and recognition of a foreign notary's acknowledgement to subchapter II of Chapter 43 of Title 29, so a Delaware filing does not turn on finding a Delaware notary.

What the Three Counties Charge

There is no statewide Delaware probate fee. § 2510 gives the governing body of each county the power to determine what its Register of Wills charges, and § 2511 asks only that each Register keep a printed or written list of its current fees available for public inspection. Three counties means three schedules, and they were read on September 10, 2026.

Read that table from both directions. The two filing rows are what an ancillary case costs a family coming into Delaware, and they are small. The exemplification row is what a Delaware executor pays to send Delaware records to another state's court, and Kent's separate $50.00 check payable to the Court of Chancery catches people who budgeted for one payment. Where a county prints no line for something, treat the blank as a question for the counter rather than as a zero.

The percentage row is where the money actually is. It is charged when the final accounting is passed rather than at opening, so an estimate built from the opening fee alone understates the bill badly. Kent prints the measure on its own schedule: closing costs regarding net personal estate, not including real estate unless directed to be sold. That last clause matters in an ancillary case built around a house, because a beach property that passes to the devisees without a court-ordered sale is not in the base, and one sold under Chapter 27 is. What selling the Delaware property involves is a separate question from what the Register charges to close the file.

Sussex County adds an operational wrinkle worth planning around. Its Register of Wills requires an appointment for opening a probated estate, closing a probated estate, ancillary estates, and depositing a will for safekeeping. Walk in with a stack of exemplified papers and you may be asked to come back.

The Calendar an Ancillary Estate Runs On

An ancillary administration is a Delaware estate, so it runs on Delaware clocks.

§ 2101(b) carries the one sentence in the notice statute written for out-of-state families. Notice is posted in the county where the decedent resided at the time of death, or, for nonresident decedents, in the county where the letters were granted. So the advertisement runs where you filed, not where the family lives, and a Delaware creditor reading a Delaware notice is exactly who the section has in mind.

The claim bar is unforgiving in a way that rewards moving early. § 2102(a) bars claims that arose before or at the death unless they are presented within 8 months of the death, whether or not the Register ever gave notice. Nothing about a family's delay in opening the ancillary case moves that date, which means an estate opened in month seven inherits a claim window with weeks left on it. The full walk through those windows is in the Delaware creditor claims guide, and the Delaware probate timeline sets out the rest of the calendar.

Delaware Takes No Death Tax on the Way Out

Delaware repealed its estate tax by 81 Del. Laws, c. 52, § 1, effective January 1, 2018. The repeal took Chapter 15 of Title 30 with it, including § 1504, the section that used to tax transfers of nonresident estates. The inheritance tax went two decades earlier, repealed by 71 Del. Laws, c. 353, § 10, effective January 1, 1999. A family opening an ancillary file today owes Delaware nothing at death on the property that brought them here.

What survives is a form. 12 Del. C. § 2304(b) says that where no return is required under the repealed Chapter 15, and letters have been granted in any county and the decedent owned real property, an affidavit in a form approved by the Director of Revenue must be filed with the Register of Wills of each county where that real property sits. All three counties charge $10 for it, under names that still say estate tax or inheritance tax. Federal filing is a separate question with its own threshold.

The Other Direction: A Delaware Estate That Owns Land Elsewhere

Turn the problem around and Delaware law goes quiet quickly, which is itself the answer. Delaware can appoint your executor and can pass your Delaware property. It cannot pass a parcel in Maryland or Florida, and the Delaware inventory says so on its face: § 1905(a) asks for a statement describing every parcel of real estate in this State. Out-of-state land is absent from the Delaware inventory because it was never the Delaware office's to inventory.

Sussex County's forms library records what that looks like at the counter. Its Form 650 covers an estate opened where no assets came in afterward, and one of the county's own listed examples is an administration necessary in order to establish ancillary administration in another State, with no Delaware assets. That is a Delaware file opened for the sole purpose of producing the authority another state's court will accept.

Three Delaware purchases carry a Delaware executor into the other state's courthouse. Short certificates are the proof of appointment, at $5 in New Castle and Kent and $3.00 in Sussex, and most families need several. Exemplification is the heavier certification that another court will usually insist on, priced in the table above. And where the other jurisdiction needs a witness or the personal representative sworn, New Castle County charges $25 per witness for a commission to issue that oath for another jurisdiction, which tracks the Register's § 2502(a) power to administer oaths and to certify and authenticate the office's records.

Budget the other state's rules as the real cost. Delaware's side of a second-state filing is a few certified pages. The filing fee, the bond rule, the resident agent requirement and the creditor calendar all belong to the state where the land sits.

Suing, Being Sued, and Being Served

Delaware attaches jurisdictional consequences to each of the routes above, and a family should read them before choosing one.

§ 1569 says a foreign personal representative submits to the jurisdiction of Delaware courts by filing exemplified copies under § 1565, by receiving payment or taking delivery under § 1562, or by doing any act as a personal representative in Delaware that would have given Delaware jurisdiction over that person as an individual. The § 1562 exposure is capped: jurisdiction acquired that way is limited to the money or the value of the personal property collected. Taking a $12,000 account does not put the whole home state estate in front of a Delaware judge.

§ 1570 adds jurisdiction inherited from the decedent, to the same extent the decedent was subject to it immediately before death. § 1571 sets the service rule, by certified mail to the last reasonably ascertainable address with a return receipt signed by the addressee only, or by ordinary first-class mail where certified service is unavailable, or in any manner service could have been made on the representative or on the decedent under other Delaware law, and it gives the representative at least 30 days to appear or respond. § 1572 closes the circle: absent fraud or collusion, an adjudication in the domiciliary jurisdiction or any ancillary jurisdiction, for or against a personal representative of the estate, binds the local personal representative as though that representative had been a party.

The Deed That Prevents the Second Case

For the generation that inherits the property, Delaware now offers a way to keep it out of a second state's court entirely. 25 Del. C. ch. 2 is the Uniform Real Property Transfer on Death Act, enacted by 85 Del. Laws, c. 212 and approved September 5, 2025. § 203 says the chapter applies to a transfer on death deed made before, on or after December 4, 2025, by a transferor dying on or after December 4, 2025.

§ 209 sets four requirements. The instrument must carry the elements and formalities Delaware asks of any properly recordable lifetime deed, down to notarization of every signature the section requires. It must be witnessed by two people, at least one of whom is not a beneficiary. It must state that the transfer to the designated beneficiary occurs at the transferor's death. And it must be recorded before the transferor's death in the office of the recorder of deeds of the county where the property is located. Kent County's fee schedule already carries a line for the affidavit of death that perfects one, so the instrument is working at the counter and not only on the page.

Two limits keep it honest. § 204 says the chapter does not affect any other method of transferring property under Delaware law, so a deed is an option rather than a replacement for a will. And 25 Del. C. § 215 keeps the property reachable: where the probate estate is insufficient to satisfy an allowed claim or a statutory allowance to a spouse or child, the estate may enforce that liability against property transferred by the deed, with 8 months from the death to start the proceeding. How the instrument works is set out in a Delaware transfer on death deed, and the wider set of choices sits in the guide to avoiding probate in Delaware.

When to Bring In a Delaware Attorney

Some ancillary matters are counter transactions and some are litigation wearing a filing's clothes. Get Delaware counsel where a resident creditor has served a § 1564 notice and the family still wants the property released, where the home state will was rejected at home for any reason at all, where the Delaware real estate has to be sold under Chapter 27 to pay debts rather than distributed, where somebody files a caveat under § 1308 or a petition for review under § 1309 within the six months that section allows, and where the estate is insolvent. Sussex County marks its Form 650 and Form 651 for attorney use only, which is the county telling you the same thing.

Where the whole Delaware holding is a modest bank account and no real estate, look at § 1562 and at the affidavit route before you pay anyone. The Delaware small estate affidavit guide sets out the § 2306 conditions, and who takes when there is no will is covered in the Delaware intestate succession guide.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does Delaware require ancillary probate for an out-of-state owner's property?

Not always, and the answer turns on what the person owned here. Delaware real estate almost always forces a Delaware filing, because a deed out of the estate has to come from someone Delaware recognizes. Personal property has two escape routes. 12 Del. C. § 1562 lets a bank, broker or debtor pay or deliver to the domiciliary foreign personal representative 60 days after the death with no Delaware estate at all, and 12 Del. C. § 1565 lets that same representative file exemplified copies of the home state appointment and then act here under § 1566. A true ancillary administration under § 1504(b) is the third route, and it is the one most families end up on when there is a house.

Which Delaware county handles a nonresident decedent's estate?

Any of the three, with a first-come rule that settles it. 12 Del. C. § 1504(b) says letters of ancillary administration for a nondomiciliary decedent shall be granted by the Register of Wills for any county, and that the administration first lawfully granted extends to all the estate of the decedent within Delaware and excludes the jurisdiction of the Register for any other county. Letters testamentary run on a narrower rule: § 1502(a) grants them for a nondomiciliary in the county where the decedent owned real or personal property. 12 Del. C. § 1302(a) points the will itself at the Register of any county where the decedent left goods, chattels, rights, credits, lands or tenements.

How does a will probated in another state get admitted in Delaware?

By filing verified copies, under 12 Del. C. § 1307(a). Where the domiciliary court has already admitted the will, the Delaware filing is a verified copy of the will plus a verified copy of the record admitting it to probate. Where the home state has not admitted it, and has not rejected it for a reason that would not defeat a Delaware testator's will, and the will is valid under Delaware law, it is proved here under §§ 1302 to 1305 instead. Either way § 1307(a) gives the will the same force and effect as if it had been proved in Delaware originally. § 1307(b) sets out the certification and seal requirements, including the consular attestation for a will proved abroad.

Can a bank release a nonresident's Delaware account without probate here?

Yes, once two conditions are met. 12 Del. C. § 1562 allows any person indebted to a nonresident decedent's estate, or holding that decedent's property or an instrument evidencing a debt, stock or chose in action, to pay or deliver it to the domiciliary foreign personal representative at any time after 60 days from the death, on proof of appointment and an affidavit stating the date of death, that no local ancillary administration or petition for one is pending in Delaware, and that the representative is entitled to the payment. § 1563 releases the payer to the same extent as payment to a local representative. § 1564 shuts the route down where a resident creditor has told the holder not to pay.

What does an out-of-state executor have to file before Delaware issues letters?

An irrevocable power of attorney, under 12 Del. C. § 1506. A nondomiciliary executor or administrator, or a corporation not incorporated under Delaware law, must file it with the Register granting the letters before the letters issue. It names that Register and the Register's successors as the person on whom notices and process from any Delaware court may be served, with the same effect as personal service. The Register then forwards anything served to the address stated in the document by certified mail, return receipt requested. All three counties publish the form, and Kent County labels it plainly as required for any non-Delaware resident opening an estate for probate in Delaware.

How much does ancillary probate cost in Delaware?

It depends on the county, because 12 Del. C. § 2510 gives the fee-setting power to the governing body of each county and § 2511 only requires each Register to keep its current fee list available for public inspection. Read on September 10, 2026, all three schedules price the grant of letters in value brackets starting at $25, and all three add a percentage charge when the final accounting is passed: New Castle County 1.75% of the net personal estate plus a separate 0.25% technology cost, Kent County 1.75%, Sussex County 1.25%. Filing the home state's exemplified papers is cheap by comparison, at $2 per page in New Castle and Kent.

Does Delaware tax a nonresident's Delaware property at death?

No. Delaware repealed its estate tax by 81 Del. Laws, c. 52, § 1, effective January 1, 2018, and that repeal took down 30 Del. C. § 1504, the section that had taxed transfers of nonresident estates. The inheritance tax went earlier, repealed by 71 Del. Laws, c. 353, § 10, effective January 1, 1999. What survives is paperwork rather than tax: 12 Del. C. § 2304(b) still calls for an affidavit in a form approved by the Director of Revenue, filed with the Register of Wills of each county where the decedent owned real property, and each county charges $10 for it.

Can the Delaware small estate affidavit be used for an out-of-state decedent?

Sometimes, and Delaware real estate is what closes the door. 12 Del. C. § 2306 is written around the estate rather than around the decedent's domicile, so a nonresident's Delaware personal property can move on the affidavit where every condition is met: no petition for a personal representative pending or granted, 30 days elapsed since the death, personal estate not over $50,000 after the § 1901(b) and (c) exclusions and jointly owned property, known debts paid or provided for, the surviving spouse's allowance resolved, and no Delaware real estate owned solely or as tenants in common. Kent County's own FAQ still prints the pre-amendment $30,000 ceiling, so ask the Register before you accept a refusal.

Related Guides

• Delaware Probate Guide
• Delaware Registers of Wills by County
• Delaware Will Requirements
• Delaware Creditor Claims
• Delaware Small Estate Affidavit
• Selling Inherited Property in Delaware
• Delaware Transfer on Death Deed

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