Kansas Probate Bond Requirements

A Kansas fiduciary bond is required by default and carries a number the statute prints. K.S.A. 59-1101 sets the amount at whatever the district court directs, subject to a floor of 125 percent of the value of the personal property plus the probable annual income from real estate coming into the fiduciary's hands. K.S.A. 59-1104 gives four grounds for excusing it, and one of those four belongs to the heirs rather than to the will.

Every rule below was read on September 8, 2026 at the Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes, and each section number was then looked up in the Kansas Secretary of State's amended and repealed indexes for 2023 through 2026. That second step matters: the revisor's text runs through the 2025 session, so a 2026 amendment does not show up there. Article 11 of chapter 59, which holds the bond rules, came back untouched by all four sessions. Kansas hears probate in the district court of a county, so the judge who fixes your bond is the district judge holding the file, and the Kansas district court directory says which county that is. This page is general information about Kansas law rather than advice about one estate.

Which Bond Applies to Your Route

Kansas prints more than one bond rule, and the amount depends on which route the estate takes rather than on the size of the estate alone.

The full sequence those routes sit inside is laid out in the Kansas probate guide.

The Floor Kansas Prints in the Statute

K.S.A. 59-1101 carries the catchline Bond requirements and conditions, and the whole rule is one sentence:

Every fiduciary, except as otherwise provided in this act, before entering upon the duties of his or her trust shall execute and file a bond, with sufficient sureties, in such amount as the court directs, which amount shall not be less than 125 percent of the value of the personal property and the probable annual income from real estate which shall come into his or her possession, conditioned upon the faithful discharge of all the duties of the trust according to law.

Four parts of that sentence do the work.

The duty attaches to a fiduciary, and Kansas defines that word broadly. K.S.A. 59-102(3) makes fiduciary include personal representatives, trustees and surviving partners administering their trusts, and K.S.A. 59-102(2) makes personal representative include executors, administrators, administrators with the will annexed, administrators de bonis non, conservators and guardians. The word covers more ground here than it does in most probate codes.

The bond comes before the work, not after. The fiduciary files it before entering upon the duties of the trust, which is why it lands in the same step as the oath.

The floor counts income from land, not the land. The measure adds the value of the personal property to the probable annual income from real estate. A quarter section that grosses $11,000 a year in cash rent adds $11,000, whatever the ground is worth. The court can go higher, since the amount is what the court directs, but it cannot go below the floor.

The condition is faithful discharge. The bond promises performance of the duties of the trust according to law, which are the duties collected in the Kansas executor duties guide.

A worked figure makes the arithmetic concrete. An estate holding $180,000 of personal property and a rental house that produces $14,000 a year gives a base of $194,000, and 125 percent of that is $242,500. Those dollar amounts are illustration. The measure is the statute's.

Four Ways a Kansas Bond Gets Excused

K.S.A. 59-1104 is the section that resolves most ordinary Kansas estates, and its list is worth reading in full rather than summarized as a will clause.

1. The document waives it. The bond is excused when the will or trust agreement expressly waives a bond of an executor, conservator or trustee. The waiver has to be express.
2. The heirs or beneficiaries waive it. The bond is excused when all of the known heirs, if no will has been probated, or all the devisees and legatees under a will that does not waive a bond, file a written waiver with the court. This ground is the one national content misses. An intestate Kansas estate can proceed without a bond on the heirs' signatures, and a will that says nothing about bond does not close the door.
3. A representative waives it for someone who cannot. A duly appointed conservator, guardian ad litem or named trustee may waive on behalf of a conservatee, beneficiary or ward, unless that conservator or trustee is the fiduciary.
4. A Kansas bank or trust company is exempt. No bond is required where the fiduciary is a bank having trust authority, or a trust company organized and having its principal place of business within Kansas.

Ground two turns on the word all. One known heir who declines to sign leaves the K.S.A. 59-1101 default running. Who counts as a known heir when there is no will comes from the Kansas intestate succession rules, and whether a document controls at all is the question answered in the Kansas will requirements guide.

None of the four is permanent. The closing sentence of K.S.A. 59-1104 says that on the application of any interested party, or on its own motion, the court may at any time require bond be given. Treat a waiver as an opening position the judge can revisit for the life of the case.

K.S.A. 59-1105 adds a narrow fifth exemption for a public, religious, charitable or educational corporation or society, and for a nonprofit Kansas corporation trustee whose trust funds financial aid, research, scholarships or fellowships for Kansas education, unless the will provides otherwise or the district court finds after notice and hearing that a bond is needed to compel faithful performance.

Ten Days to File the Oath and Bond

Kansas puts a short clock on qualifying, and the two openings word it differently.

Testate. K.S.A. 59-2227 has the court, upon admission of the will to probate, appoint an executor or administrator with the will annexed and fix the amount of the bond as required by law, if such is required. If the person appointed does not qualify within ten days, the court may grant letters to another, with or without notice. Letters issue upon the filing of the oath and bond.

Intestate. K.S.A. 59-2232 has the court appoint an administrator on the hearing of the petition and fix the bond. Neglect for ten days after written notice of the appointment to file the oath and bond is deemed a refusal to serve, and the court may then appoint whoever else is entitled to administer, again with or without notice.

The oath is a separate instrument from the bond. K.S.A. 59-1702 requires every fiduciary, before entering upon the duties of the trust, to take and subscribe an oath to discharge the duties faithfully, impartially and to the best of the fiduciary's ability, and to swear the fiduciary is acting on its own behalf rather than for a bank or corporation not authorized to act as a fiduciary in Kansas. No oath is required where qualification with the court has been excused, waived or is otherwise not required.

Before letters issue, an executor named in a will has almost no authority. K.S.A. 59-704 lets that person pay reasonable funeral expenses and act as far as necessary to conserve the estate, and nothing further.

Who the Bond Runs To, and Who Can Sue On It

K.S.A. 59-1102 answers both questions in three sentences. Kansas bonds run to the state of Kansas. They are subject to the approval of the district court, and shall not be approved until the court is fully satisfied as to the sufficiency of the sureties. On breach of any condition, an action may be prosecuted in the name and for the benefit of any person interested.

That last clause is broader than it sounds. The obligee is the state, but the beneficiary is whoever the breach injured, so an heir, a devisee or an unpaid creditor sues in the state's name for their own benefit. The creditors most likely to reach a bond are the ones whose demands were allowed and then went unpaid, and their timetable sits in the Kansas creditor claims guide.

Kansas prints no net worth test, residency test or affidavit of justification for a surety anywhere in article 11. The statute asks for sufficient sureties and hands the sufficiency question to the district judge. Where two or more people are appointed joint fiduciaries, K.S.A. 59-1103 lets the court approve a separate bond for each or a joint bond for all, so co-executors should ask which the judge wants rather than assume.

The Kansas Judicial Council is the state's form setter for probate, and its probate forms page publishes exactly two, a hearing notice under K.S.A. 59-2210 and a petition for allowance of demand. The council's small estates affidavit under K.S.A. 59-1507b sits on its own separate page. No bond form is published on any of them, so expect the surety company or the clerk to supply the instrument.

The Amount Can Move After Appointment

A Kansas bond is not fixed for the life of the estate. Four sections let it change, and two of them can end an appointment.

• The court can raise it or cut it. K.S.A. 59-1106 lets the court, on its own motion or on the application of any interested person, require a new or additional bond for good cause. The fiduciary's accounts are then settled, and if approved, the liability of the sureties on the new bond is limited to the property then in the fiduciary's possession or acquired afterward. The same section lets the court reduce the liability when it finds the bond larger than necessary, and cancel any bond it finds unnecessary.
• The surety can get out. K.S.A. 59-1107 requires the court, on a surety's application and after notice, to make the fiduciary settle the account and file a new bond. If the account is approved, the surety is discharged from liability thereafter accruing. A fiduciary who fails or refuses to file the new bond shall be removed.
• An unpaid premium is grounds to cancel. K.S.A. 59-1109 lets the court cancel an article 11 bond on a motion by the bonding company showing just cause, and says just cause includes nonpayment of a premium. An accounting through the date the motion is filed has to accompany the motion, and the court cannot grant it until that accounting is filed and approved.
• Selling land can trigger a second bond. K.S.A. 59-2306 lets the court require the personal representative to give an additional bond before a sale, lease or mortgage of estate real property, or before the confirmation of one, to secure the further assets the transaction produces.

Behind all four sits K.S.A. 59-1711, which lets the court remove a fiduciary who fails or refuses to perform any duty imposed by law or by a lawful court order, and reduce or forfeit that fiduciary's compensation.

Route-Specific Bonds Kansas Prints Nowhere Else

Three Kansas routes carry their own bond arithmetic, and copying the article 11 floor into any of them gives the wrong number.

Refusal to grant letters, K.S.A. 59-2287(a)(2). Where the real and personal estate does not exceed $75,000 and the K.S.A. 59-403 allowances do not apply or are waived, an heir, devisee, legatee, creditor or other interested person may petition the district court to refuse letters, by giving bond in the sum of not less than the value of the estate. The district court approves it, and it is conditioned on the petitioner assuming the obligation to pay the decedent's debts in the order of their preference so far as the assets permit, and to distribute the balance to the persons entitled to it. Note the direction: this is the one Kansas route where the bond is measured on the whole estate rather than on a fraction of it, and the petitioner posting it is not a court-appointed fiduciary. The separate ground in K.S.A. 59-2287(a)(1), for an estate no larger than the exempt property and the surviving spouse or minor children's allowance, carries no bond requirement at all.

Informal administration, K.S.A. 59-3304(b)(1). Where the court designates specific money of the estate for paying debts and expenses and names someone to pay them, that person files a bond with sufficient sureties of at least 125% of the money authorized for the purpose, unless a testamentary instrument excuses it. The multiplier matches article 11 and the base does not: the measure here is the money the order releases, not the estate.

Informal administration, K.S.A. 59-3304(b)(2). Where the court orders distribution before six months from the date of death, or before any statute of nonclaims has run, each distributee gives a redelivery bond with sufficient sureties in the amount of the value of the property assigned to that distributee. Under K.S.A. 59-3304(b)(3) both informal bonds run from the date of the court's order until the running of any statute of nonclaims, and they are for the benefit of the heirs, devisees, legatees, trustees, creditors and nominated fiduciary.

Simplified administration follows article 11. K.S.A. 59-3203(b) says all procedures, notices, bonds, hearings and appeals under the Kansas simplified estates act proceed as set out under the other provisions of the probate code, so a simplified estate uses the K.S.A. 59-1101 floor and the K.S.A. 59-1104 excuses without change.

The affidavit route has no bond because it has no court. K.S.A. 59-1507b transfers personal property to a successor where the total assets of the estate subject to probate do not exceed $75,000, without letters and without a filing. The comparison between the routes that need a bond and the one that does not is the practical decision for a small Kansas estate.

Other Bonds That Turn Up in a Kansas File

Not every bond in the folder is the personal representative's. Read the caption before assuming it is yours.

• The special administrator. K.S.A. 59-710 lets the court appoint one for good cause pending or alongside a regular appointment, and says the special administrator may be required to give bond in such sum as the court shall direct. The article 11 floor is not written into that sentence.
• A life tenant of personal property. K.S.A. 59-1506 lets the court order personal property delivered to a person holding a limited estate, or held by the executor or another trustee for that person, and lets a bond be required of whoever holds it, either at the outset or at any time before the limited estate ends.
• A surviving business partner. K.S.A. 59-1001 delivers the property of a partnership dissolved by a partner's death to the surviving partner willing to manage it under a bond, and then requires that partner to close the firm's affairs, apply the property to partnership debts, account to the district court on oath, and pay the executor or administrator the estate's share of the net proceeds within six months of the death unless the court allows longer.

What a Kansas Probate Bond Costs

Kansas fixes no premium rate anywhere in its statutes. The district court sets the penal sum under K.S.A. 59-1101 and the surety company prices the risk, so any percentage quoted online is an industry figure rather than a Kansas rule. Ask two or three sureties to quote the same penal sum and compare what comes back.

Three cost facts do come from Kansas text.

• The estate can carry the premium. K.S.A. 59-1717 allows every fiduciary the necessary expenses incurred in the execution of the trust, plus compensation for services and for the attorney's services that is just and reasonable, and lets the fiduciary apply to the court for an allowance at any time during administration. Where the estate is thin, that allowance competes with the ranking in Kansas debt payment priority.
• There is no separate bond approval fee. The docket-fee table in K.S.A. 59-104 charges $109.50 to probate an estate or a will and $48.50 for refusal to grant letters of administration, and the section says the docket fee established there shall be the only fee collected, established by an act of the legislature and no other authority. It carries no line for approving a bond. Kansas amended that section in 2026, and the base table came through unchanged; what moved was the supreme court's authority to add up to $22 per docket fee, which now runs from July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2030. The revisor's published text still shows the expired window, so read the session law for that one figure.
• A very small estate can have costs remitted. K.S.A. 59-2215 lets the court remit the court costs, or any part of them, where the total assets of a decedent's or conservatee's estate do not exceed $10,000.

When the Bond Ends

A Kansas bond follows the office and closes by order.

K.S.A. 59-1718 sets the exit. Whenever the fiduciary has paid or transferred to the persons entitled all of the property of the estate, paid all taxes required to be paid by the fiduciary and filed proof of that, complied with the orders and decrees of the court and the provisions of law, and otherwise fully discharged the trust, the court shall finally discharge the fiduciary and the sureties. The sureties are named in that sentence, so the discharge order is the document a surety company will ask to see.

The account that supports the discharge is settled at final settlement. K.S.A. 59-2249 has the court examine the executor or administrator on the account, settle and allow it if the taxes payable by the estate have been paid so far as there are funds, correct it if it is wrong, and then determine the heirs, devisees and legatees and assign the estate by decree. Where the decree includes real property, a certified copy goes to the county clerk for the transfer record. The dates that lead up to that hearing are gathered in the Kansas probate timeline.

A Conservator Posts on a Different Measure

Readers often arrive here from a conservatorship, where Kansas answers with a different formula and a newer statute.

K.S.A. 59-30,174, effective January 1, 2026, requires the court to make a conservator furnish a bond with a surety or an alternative asset-protection arrangement, conditioned on faithful discharge of the conservator's duties. The court may waive it only on finding that no such protection is needed for the individual subject to conservatorship, and may not waive it at all where the conservator is in the business of serving as a conservator and is paid for it. Unless the court directs otherwise, the amount is the aggregate capital value of the conservatorship estate plus one year's estimated income, less property deposited under an arrangement requiring a court order to remove it, and less the value of real property. A regulated financial-service firm qualified to do trust business in Kansas posts nothing.

Two contrasts are worth carrying into a hearing. The probate floor multiplies by 125 percent and counts the annual income from land; the conservatorship measure uses no multiplier and subtracts the value of the land outright. And K.S.A. 59-30,175 writes rules for the conservator's surety that article 11 does not print, including joint and several liability with the conservator, the surety's submission to the court's personal jurisdiction, and a duty on the surety to notify the court and the protected person if the bond is not renewed. Planning questions on that side are covered in Kansas guardianship planning.

If the Court Asks You for a Bond

Work through this in order.

1. Read the will for an express bond clause. K.S.A. 59-1104(1) turns on express waiver. Silence is not a waiver.
2. Count the heirs before you buy anything. K.S.A. 59-1104(2) excuses the bond on a written waiver signed by all known heirs where no will has been probated, or by all devisees and legatees under a will that is silent. In a family that agrees, this is the cheapest answer Kansas offers.
3. Build the estimate the way K.S.A. 59-1101 builds it. Value of the personal property, plus the probable annual income from the real estate, times 1.25. That is the floor, and the judge can set more.
4. Ask which shape the judge wants for co-fiduciaries. K.S.A. 59-1103 permits a separate bond for each or one joint bond, and the choice belongs to the court.
5. Watch the ten days. K.S.A. 59-2227 and K.S.A. 59-2232 both let the court hand the appointment to someone else if the oath and bond are not on file, and neither requires a second notice.
6. Keep the premium paid. K.S.A. 59-1109 makes nonpayment of a premium just cause for the bonding company to move to cancel, which puts you back in front of the judge with an accounting attached.
7. Ask for the discharge order in writing at closing. K.S.A. 59-1718 discharges the fiduciary and the sureties in the same sentence, and the surety will want the order rather than your word for it.

Common Questions

Is a probate bond required in Kansas?

Yes, unless the court excuses it. K.S.A. 59-1101 says every fiduciary shall execute and file a bond with sufficient sureties before entering upon the duties of the trust. K.S.A. 59-1104 then lists four grounds for excusing it: a will or trust agreement that expressly waives a bond of an executor, conservator or trustee; a written waiver filed by all known heirs where no will has been probated, or by all devisees and legatees under a will that does not waive one; a waiver by a conservator, guardian ad litem or named trustee acting for a conservatee, ward or beneficiary; and a fiduciary that is a bank with trust authority or a trust company with its principal place of business in Kansas. The same section lets the court require bond at any time afterward.

How much is a Kansas probate bond?

K.S.A. 59-1101 gives the district court discretion above a printed floor. The bond is in such amount as the court directs, and that amount shall not be less than 125 percent of the value of the personal property and the probable annual income from real estate that will come into the fiduciary's possession. Read the second half carefully. The measure reaches the yearly income the land produces, not the market value of the land. A Kansas farm worth $400,000 that rents for $11,000 a year contributes the $11,000 to the calculation, so an estate holding mostly real property can carry a much smaller bond than the family expects.

Can a Kansas will waive the executor's bond?

Yes, and Kansas is one of the states where a waiver can also come from the heirs rather than the document. K.S.A. 59-1104(1) excuses the bond when the will or trust agreement expressly waives a bond of an executor, conservator or trustee. K.S.A. 59-1104(2) reaches the intestate estate as well, excusing the bond when all of the known heirs, if no will has been probated, file a written waiver with the court. Neither route is permanent. The closing sentence of the same section lets the court require a bond at any time, on the application of any interested party or on its own motion.

How long does a Kansas executor have to file the bond?

Ten days, and the consequence differs slightly between the two openings. In a testate estate, K.S.A. 59-2227 has the court appoint the executor and fix the bond when the will is admitted, and if the person appointed does not qualify within ten days the court may grant letters to someone else, with or without notice. Letters issue upon the filing of the oath and bond. In an intestate estate, K.S.A. 59-2232 treats neglect for ten days after written notice of appointment to file the oath and bond as a refusal to serve, and the court may then appoint another person entitled to administer.

Does the Kansas small estates affidavit need a bond?

No, because no court appoints anyone. K.S.A. 59-1507b lets a successor collect personal property from a bank or other holder where the total assets of the estate subject to probate do not exceed $75,000, on an affidavit showing entitlement, without letters of administration or letters testamentary. No letters means no fiduciary, and no fiduciary means nothing for K.S.A. 59-1101 to attach to. The other $75,000 route runs the opposite way. Under K.S.A. 59-2287(a)(2) a creditor or heir petitioning for refusal of letters gives a bond of not less than the value of the estate.

When does a Kansas probate bond end?

By court order. K.S.A. 59-1718 says the court shall finally discharge the fiduciary and the sureties once the fiduciary has paid or transferred all of the property to the persons entitled to it, paid all taxes required to be paid by the fiduciary and filed proof of that, complied with the orders and decrees of the court, and otherwise fully discharged the trust. Before that point the amount can move. K.S.A. 59-1106 lets the court require a new or additional bond for good cause, reduce the liability when the bond is larger than necessary, and cancel any bond it finds unnecessary.

Related Guides

• Kansas Executor Duties
• Kansas Probate Guide
• Kansas Small Estates
• Kansas Probate Timeline
• Kansas Creditor Claims
• Kansas Will Requirements
• Kansas Probate Courts by County

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