Kansas Probate and Estate Forms

Important Notes

• -KANSAS PUBLISHES ALMOST NO FREE PROBATE FORMS, AND THAT IS NORMAL HERE. The Kansas Judicial Council probate page carries exactly two form folders. The small estates affidavit and the poverty affidavit sit on their own pages. Everything else in a Kansas probate is drafted to the statute that prescribes its content. Any page that hands you a numbered Kansas probate form for a petition or an inventory is describing another state.
• -THE COMPREHENSIVE FORM SET IS A PAID BOOK. Kansas Judicial Council Probate Forms 3d costs $150 plus tax in print, $95 plus tax on single-user CD-ROM, or $85 for a one-year online PDF subscription in which the forms are not fillable. It is free online to registered Kansas attorneys. The Council describes it as intended for use by probate attorneys.
• -NO FORM NUMBER HERE IS INVENTED. Every Judicial Council form on this page carries a null form number because the Council assigns none, and the controlling statute is cited instead. The Kansas Department of Revenue vehicle forms do carry numbers and those are printed as published, with the URL taken from the forms-library table row rather than constructed.
• -READ THE REVISION DATE, NOT A VERSION NUMBER. Kansas Judicial Council forms are identified by a date in the file label, so the small estates affidavit reads Small Estates Affidavit (02-2024) and the creditor form reads Petition for Allowance of Demand (04-2024). Most are published twice, as a PDF and as a Word document. Download the current file rather than reusing a saved copy.
• -GUARDIANSHIP FORMS CHANGED ON JANUARY 1, 2026. Kansas repealed its guardianship and conservatorship statutes and replaced them, and the section numbers moved. The Judicial Council says on its own page that its list is only some of the forms. Anything citing K.S.A. 59-3050 et seq. is citing repealed law.
• -THE DOCKET FEE IS FLAT AND STATEWIDE. K.S.A. 59-104(a)(1) charges $109.50 to probate an estate or a will in every one of the 105 counties. It is not value-based and counties may not add one: subsection (a)(2) says the docket fee may only be established by an act of the legislature and that no other authority exists to collect one. The supreme court may add up to $22 per docket fee between July 1, 2026 and June 30, 2030, so a clerk may quote up to $131.50.
• -PUBLICATION IS A SEPARATE COST. The notice to creditors runs in a county newspaper once a week for three consecutive weeks and is paid to the newspaper, not to the court. Budget for it alongside the docket fee.
• -THE CLERK’S CHARGE FOR A COPY OR A CERTIFICATION IS NOT A STATEWIDE FIGURE, so none is published here. K.S.A. 28-170(a)(3) leaves the amount to be prescribed by the district court, which makes it a per-district figure rather than a statewide one. Ask the clerk.
• -NO KANSAS COURT ADDRESS, CLERK NAME OR TELEPHONE NUMBER APPEARS ON THIS PAGE, and that is a recorded decision rather than an oversight. The Kansas judicial branch publishes its 105-jurisdiction directory on a host whose robots.txt disallows automated collection, so this project does not collect it by any route. An absent contact means not collected. It never means the court has no clerk. Telephone your county district court clerk for local filing practice.
• -JUDICIAL COUNCIL STAFF CANNOT HELP YOU FILL A FORM IN. The Council states in its own words that its staff may not give legal advice, recommend a specific course of legal action, help you fill out forms, interpret statutes or rules, or advise whether a rule applies to your situation, and that completed forms should not be sent to its office.
• -THE FORMS ARE COPYRIGHTED AND FOR NON-COMMERCIAL USE. The Council states that its forms are provided free of charge and may not be sold, republished or transferred for compensation without its express permission, and that anyone who paid a company for them should contact the Attorney General’s consumer complaint hotline and the Judicial Council.