Kansas Probate Accounting

Kansas probate accounting is two documents on two clocks. You make an inventory and valuation within 30 days of your letters under K.S.A. 59-1201, and you present a verified account of administration within nine months of your appointment under K.S.A. 59-1501 and 59-1502. The final decree rests on the second one.

Everything between those two filings is the record the account has to explain. K.S.A. 59-2247 lists what the petition for final settlement must contain, K.S.A. 59-2249 governs the hearing and the decree that assigns the property, and K.S.A. 59-1703 decides what you are charged with when a number does not reconcile. Every rule below was read at the Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes on September 8, 2026, whose published text carries the probate code through the 2025 session. Read this page alongside the duties this account reports on and when the account is due.

This page states Kansas law rather than the facts of one estate. Confirm your own dates with the clerk of the district court holding the file, or with a licensed Kansas attorney.

The Inventory Is Due 30 Days After Your Letters, Not After the Death

K.S.A. 59-1201 starts the clock at the date of your letters of appointment and gives you 30 days, unless the court has already granted longer. The other Kansas clock most executors are thinking of starts at the death: a simplified estate cannot close until six months from the date of death have run, under K.S.A. 59-3205. This deadline runs from your appointment, and mixing the two is the most common way to file the inventory late.

The valuation standard is fixed. You state, opposite each item, the full and fair value as of the date of the decedent's death, and you verify the whole document by your own affidavit. Coverage runs to all real estate and tangible personal property the decedent owned that sits in Kansas, plus all intangible property the decedent owned wherever it sits, so long as it comes to your possession or knowledge.

The statute then sorts the property into five classes and asks for a different level of detail in each one:

• Real estate, with a plat or survey description.
• Furniture, household goods, and wearing apparel.
• Corporation stocks, described by certificate numbers.
• Bonds, mortgages, notes and other written evidence of debt, described by name of debtor, recording data, and other identification.
• All other personal property, accurately identified.

A partnership interest gets its own treatment. Where the decedent was a partner, the inventory has to carry a separate inventory and valuation of the whole partnership estate and of the decedent's proportional share in it. The court may also require an earlier inventory for good cause shown, so 30 days is a ceiling rather than a promise.

Three sections add items an executor often leaves off. K.S.A. 59-1204 says a will that forgives a debt owed to the decedent does not defeat creditors: the forgiveness is read as a specific bequest, and the amount goes in the inventory. K.S.A. 59-1205 says naming someone executor does not cancel a claim the testator held against that person, and that claim goes in the inventory too. K.S.A. 59-1206 treats annual crops as personal assets in your custody whether or not they were severed from the land at the death.

New property found later does not wait for the final account. K.S.A. 59-1203 requires an inventory of assets not mentioned in the inventory already made, with a value opposite each item, filed with the court within 30 days after you discover them.

Nobody Appraises a Kansas Estate Unless Someone Asks

Here is the line that saves a self-filed Kansas estate real money, and national checklists rarely carry it.

K.S.A. 59-1202 opens with a flat negative: no independent appraisement shall be made unless a party having an interest in the estate requests one. Your own sworn values under K.S.A. 59-1201 stand on their own until that request arrives.

When it does arrive, the machinery is short. You appoint not more than three appraisers, and the court approves them unless good cause is shown why it should not. They have 30 days from their appointment to state a value opposite each item, and they deliver the inventory and appraisement, certified under oath, back to you. You file it with the district court. The court sets their compensation at what it deems reasonable, so the price of a demand is not fixed in advance.

K.S.A. 59-1207 gives you a quieter option that needs no request from anyone. You may employ one or more advisers to help value inventoried items, and the court sets their compensation the same way. A farm equipment dealer or a coin appraiser hired under that section is a cost of administration rather than a court proceeding.

Nine Months, and the Extension Is Not Automatic

K.S.A. 59-1501 gives every executor and administrator nine months from the date of appointment for the settlement of the estate. An administrator de bonis non gets whatever period the court determines, capped at the same nine months.

Extensions exist and they are granted for cause shown, in blocks of not more than nine months at a time. Asking before the period runs is a different conversation from explaining afterward, because the statute is explicit that blowing the deadline does not disqualify you unless you are removed, and does not relieve you from any loss, liability or penalty incurred by failing to settle in time.

Silence has a price written into the same section. Fail or refuse for 30 days after the nine months expire, and the court may cite you to appear and settle. All costs connected with that citation and the hearing on it are assessed against you personally, not against the estate. Kansas puts that sentence in the statute rather than leaving it to the judge.

The section ends with a rule for the executor who has vanished. If the return of the citation shows you are not within the court's jurisdiction, the estate may be closed by order without a publication notice once there has been no prosecution for five years, and it may be reopened within one year on the petition of a direct heir, executor or administrator, who is then charged with the costs.

What the Account Itself Has to Say

K.S.A. 59-1502 is two sentences long and carries the whole duty. Every executor or administrator shall present a verified account of administration within the time limited and make application to the court to settle and allow the account and to assign the estate to the persons entitled to it. The same section lets the court demand an account at any other time it chooses.

K.S.A. 59-2247(a) lists what the petition has to contain beyond the ordinary requirements:

• A statement of the account.
• The names, residences and addresses of the heirs, devisees and legatees.
• A description of the real estate and the decedent's interest in it at the time of death.
• The nature and character of the respective claims of the heirs, devisees and legatees.
• A statement that neither the decedent nor a predeceased spouse received medical assistance under K.S.A. 39-709 or another state's law, or, if either did, that the paying state was notified of the filing as K.S.A. 59-2222 requires.

That fifth item is the one out-of-state templates miss. The notice duty itself sits in K.S.A. 59-2222(e), which entitles a state that paid medical assistance to notice, given to the Kansas agency or department responsible for recovery, or to the attorney general of the other state. K.S.A. 59-2247(a)(5) then makes your final settlement petition certify that the notice went out. An estate that touched KanCare or another state's Medicaid program has a party to have notified rather than a box to tick at the end.

What you are charged with is decided by K.S.A. 59-1703. You may not profit by an increase and do not bear a loss from a decrease or destruction that happens without your fault. You account for the excess when you sell above the appraisement and are not responsible when you sell for less, if the sale appears beneficial to the estate. You are not accountable for debts owed to the decedent that stay uncollected without fault on your part. The counterweight is the waste rule in the same section: where a fiduciary neglects or unreasonably delays collecting debts, selling property or paying over money in hand, and the estate is lessened or unnecessary costs, interest or penalties accrue, that is waste and the fiduciary is charged in the account with the damages sustained.

Self-dealing gets its own sentence. Under K.S.A. 59-1703 a sale, lease or mortgage to you, your spouse, child or grandchild, or your agent or attorney in fact is voidable unless the will or a contract the decedent made expressly authorized the transaction, or the court approved it after a hearing on notice to interested persons. The section reaches two more situations and qualifies both the same way. A sale, lease or mortgage to a corporation in which you hold a substantial beneficial interest is voidable, and so is any transaction affected by a conflict of interest of that same degree on your part. Read the qualifier before you assume a small holding or a passing connection puts a deal out of reach.

How the Hearing Gets Noticed, and Why Real Estate Changes It

Kansas splits final settlement notice in two, and the split turns on whether the decree will assign title to real estate.

When it will, K.S.A. 59-2247 sends you to K.S.A. 59-2209. Notice is published once per week for three consecutive weeks in a newspaper of the county authorized by law to publish legal notices. The first publication comes within 30 days after the order fixing the time and place of hearing. Within seven days after that first published notice, you mail a copy, postage prepaid, to every heir, devisee and legatee other than the petitioner whose name and address you know, and to any guardian, conservator or guardian ad litem standing in for one of them. The hearing date lands no earlier than 10 days and no later than 30 days after the last publication.

In all other cases notice is given or waived under K.S.A. 59-2208. The court orders notice to all interested persons in the manner and for the length of time it considers reasonable, and the waiver list is long: any competent person, any fiduciary, a trustee for itself and all beneficiaries of the trust, a conservator for itself and all its conservatees, a guardian for itself and all its wards, and a guardian ad litem for itself and everyone it represents.

Both sections carry the same enclosure rule, and it catches people out. A copy of the petition, any attachments to it, and, when applicable, a copy of the will, the accounting and any settlement agreement have to go out with the notice unless the court excuses it. The account travels to the interested persons; it does not sit at the courthouse waiting to be asked for.

The Hearing, the Decree, and What the Decree Settles

K.S.A. 59-2249(a) runs the hearing. Unless the court orders otherwise, you shall be examined about the account and the distribution, and other persons may be. If all the taxes payable by the estate have been paid so far as there are funds to pay them and the account is correct, the account is settled and allowed. If it is incorrect, it is corrected first and then settled and allowed, which is a repair rather than a dismissal.

On settlement and allowance the court determines the heirs, devisees and legatees entitled to the estate and assigns it to them by decree, following the will, the intestate succession law that governed on the date of death, or a valid settlement agreement. The decree names them, describes the property, and states the proportion or part each takes. It binds all the estate of the decedent whether or not the proceedings described that property by name, which is why a missed asset is a reopening question rather than a leftover.

Real estate gets a recording step. Under K.S.A. 59-2249(b), a decree that includes real estate may be entered on the transfer record of the county clerk, and once the decree is final the court has a duty to transmit a certified copy to the clerk, who enters it. If you are then selling inherited property, the entry the clerk makes under that subsection is the public record of the assignment.

Advancements are decided at the same hearing, not earlier. K.S.A. 59-2248 has the court hear and determine all questions about advancements the intestate made to an heir at the time of settlement, specify every advancement in the decree, and ascertain the value of the entire residue by ordering an appraisement or in whatever other manner it thinks best.

A Simplified Estate Still Files an Account

K.S.A. 59-102(5) defines simplified administration as administration under the Kansas simplified estates act, K.S.A. 59-3201 through 59-3206, and K.S.A. 59-102(6) defines supervised administration by subtracting that act, the informal administration act and refusal to grant letters. The simplified route removes supervision in the middle and keeps the account at the end.

K.S.A. 59-3202 has the court choose between simplified and supervised administration at the hearing on the petition, weighing the size of the estate, the degree of kinship of the heirs, devisees and persons seeking appointment, solvency, the nature of the estate, the wishes of the heirs and devisees, the probable cost of administration and settlement, and any other pertinent matters. There is no dollar threshold in the act.

K.S.A. 59-3204(a) keeps the accounting duties intact. The executor or administrator collects the assets, files an inventory and valuation, pays creditor claims, and pays taxes. Subsection (b) lets you sell, liquidate or exchange personal property the will does not leave to a named person, without court supervision, and subsection (c) lets you distribute a bequest or the residue before closing while requiring a redelivery bond equal to the value of what you handed out.

K.S.A. 59-3205 is where the route earns its name and then hands the estate back. After letters issue, no further court supervision is necessary or required until the court orders the estate closed, with two exceptions: a granted petition for a judicial determination of any proceeding or act in the estate that does not also ask for supervised administration for the rest of the case, and a change to supervised administration under K.S.A. 59-3206. Closing waits on three conditions, all of which must be satisfied. The time for filing claims has expired. The time to appeal an order admitting or refusing to admit a will has expired. Six months from the date of death have expired. The court then closes the estate as provided in K.S.A. 59-2247 and 59-2249, which are the same two sections a supervised estate closes under.

That is why the account matters more here than anywhere else in Kansas. K.S.A. 59-2222(b) requires the appointment notice to tell every interested person that the court need not supervise the administration and that no notice of any action of the executor or administrator will be given except notice of final settlement. For most beneficiaries in a simplified estate, your account is the first and only document they see.

An objection can change the track. Under K.S.A. 59-3206 any person with an interest may file an objection stating reasons, or you may file a statement that the estate cannot be administered advantageously under the act, and the court hears the question after notice under K.S.A. 59-2208. A move to supervised administration does not invalidate an inventory and valuation you already filed properly, and it does not require republishing a notice to creditors that already ran.

Paying People Before the Account Is Allowed

Two sections let money move before final settlement, and both trade speed for a bond.

K.S.A. 59-1503 covers early payment of legacies and shares. If there is enough money to satisfy all demands against the estate, you may pay legacies and distribute shares on order of the court, with specific legacies satisfied first. While any demand is not yet barred, or six months have not passed since the death, nobody can compel you to pay unless the court orders it and until the legatee or distributee gives bond or security to refund a proportionate share of any demand later established, plus the cost of recovering it. The court may waive that bond on your petition, or on a beneficiary's petition with your approval.

K.S.A. 59-2246 handles partial distribution. The petition may be heard without notice, or the court may require notice. Where notice is required or given, the decree of partial distribution is final as to the persons entitled and as to their respective proportions of the whole estate, unless the decree includes only specific legacies. So a partial distribution decree with notice settles a question that would otherwise stay open until the final hearing.

Your Compensation Comes Out of the Same Hearing

Kansas is a reasonable compensation state and publishes no percentage schedule. K.S.A. 59-1717 allows every fiduciary the necessary expenses incurred in executing the trust, plus such compensation for services and for the services of the fiduciary's attorneys as shall be just and reasonable. The same section lets you apply at any time during administration for an allowance on your compensation and on attorney fees, so a long administration does not have to be financed to the end.

Anyone quoting you a Kansas percentage is quoting another state. The record that supports a fee request is the one you built while administering: dated time, the work each entry covers, and the outcome it produced.

Two sections move the number. K.S.A. 59-1504 says a compensation provision in the will is taken as your full compensation unless you file a written instrument renouncing all claim to it. K.S.A. 59-1711 lets the court remove a fiduciary who fails or refuses to perform a duty imposed by law or by a lawful order, and reduce or forfeit that fiduciary's compensation in the same breath.

Court costs are a separate line. K.S.A. 59-2215 lets the court remit court costs, or any part of them, when the total assets of the estate do not exceed 10,000 dollars in value.

The Kansas Routes That Produce No Account at All

Three Kansas paths reach the end without the K.S.A. 59-1502 account described above, and knowing which one you are on saves the work rather than deferring it.

The small estates affidavit under K.S.A. 59-1507b involves no court and no personal representative. When a Kansas resident dies and the total assets of the estate subject to probate do not exceed 75,000 dollars in value, personal property transferable to the estate goes to a successor on an affidavit showing entitlement, with no letters of administration or letters testamentary. The receipt of the successor discharges the transferring party as fully as payment to an executor would. No appointment means no inventory and no account. The Kansas small estates affidavit has the eligibility detail.

Refusal to grant letters under K.S.A. 59-2287 ends the same way by a different door. Subsection (d) has the court enter an order terminating the administration once further proceedings look unnecessary, and that order says all further settlements and other proceedings concerning the estate are dispensed with.

Informal administration under K.S.A. 59-3301 through 59-3306 front-loads the accounting rather than removing it. K.S.A. 59-3302(b)(6) and (7) require the petition to carry an inventory and valuation or appraisal of all the decedent's assets, a listing of the debts both paid and unpaid, an estimate of the costs and expenses of informal administration including reasonable fees, and a statement of which specific estate money will pay the unpaid debts. Both subsections let you set that information out in the petition or list it in a separate document attached to it. K.S.A. 59-3304(a)(1) then has the court assign all the remaining assets to the takers in a single order. The numbers a supervised estate reports at the end are the numbers an informal estate files at the beginning.

Discharge, the 30 Day Window, and Reopening

Allowance of the account is not the last order in the file.

K.S.A. 59-1718 sets the conditions for discharge. Once the fiduciary has paid or transferred all the property of the estate to the persons entitled to it, paid all taxes the fiduciary was required to pay and filed proof of that payment, complied with all the orders and decrees of the court and with the provisions of law, and otherwise fully discharged the trust, the court shall finally discharge the fiduciary and the sureties.

K.S.A. 59-1505 lists conditions that block a discharge. Where a bequest or devise goes to a testamentary trustee, you are not discharged, unless the will says otherwise, until that trustee has qualified in a court of competent jurisdiction, proof of the qualification has been made, and the trustee's receipt is on file. An executor holding wrongful death proceeds is not discharged until a certified copy of the distribution order and receipts from the persons entitled are filed. An executor served with an order of garnishment is not discharged until the garnishment obligations are satisfied.

Then the window closes fast. K.S.A. 59-2213 gives the court control of its orders, judgments and decrees for 30 days after they are rendered. After that, a decree can be vacated or modified only as K.S.A. 60-260(b) of the code of civil procedure allows. Read the decree the week it is entered rather than the month after.

Property found later has its own route back. K.S.A. 59-1501a lets a closed estate be reopened to distribute property that was not in the inventory and was discovered after closing, or to execute or deliver a deed that was never executed or delivered. K.S.A. 59-1501b names who may petition: any unsatisfied creditor who filed a claim, the Kansas Department of Revenue, any interested party, and any personal representative, legatee, devisee or heir. Notice runs under K.S.A. 59-2208, the court orders distribution in accordance with the journal entry of final settlement and the evidence, and the reopened estate is then summarily reclosed.

A Testamentary Trust Accounts on Its Own Schedule

If the will creates a trust, a second and longer accounting duty starts where the estate's duty ends, and different sections govern it.

K.S.A. 59-1601 requires the first qualifying testamentary trustee to file an inventory under oath with the district court where the will was admitted, within 30 days after it becomes the trustee's duty to take possession, showing by item all the trust property with an estimated value. K.S.A. 59-1602 requires an intermediate account under oath, within the period the supreme court sets by rule, showing the period covered, a complete statement of trust capital and income received and expended, present investments and other trust property held, the beneficiaries and which of them are minors or adjudged disabled, proposed distributions, and the payment of expenses, commissions and attorney fees. K.S.A. 59-1603 sets a final account within 30 days after the trust terminates, and K.S.A. 59-1604 a distribution account within 30 days after the trust property is distributed, carrying the distributees' receipts.

The hearing sections sit at K.S.A. 59-2253 through 59-2256 and they read differently from the executor's. An intermediate account filed without a petition has to be transmitted to each known beneficiary, with proof of transmission filed. The trustee or any beneficiary may petition for approval, and any beneficiary may petition for disapproval. K.S.A. 59-2255 lets the court disapprove an account and surcharge the trustee for any loss caused by a breach of trust. K.S.A. 59-2256 explains why a trustee wants approval: it relieves the trustee and the sureties from liability to all beneficiaries then known and in being, and to those who later become known or in being, for all acts and omissions fully and accurately described in the account, including the then investment of trust funds. Fully and accurately described is the condition doing the work in that sentence.

Two sections let the document and the beneficiaries adjust these duties. Under K.S.A. 59-1607 a testator or settlor may relieve the trustee of duties this article imposes or add to them, while the court keeps power to require performance on the application of a beneficiary. Under K.S.A. 59-1608 a beneficiary of full age who is not an incapacitated person, acting on full information, may excuse the trustee as to that beneficiary by written instrument, subject to court approval. Kansas trust administration picks up from there.

Which Forms You Will Actually Find

Kansas publishes a free fill-in form for the route that needs no account and sells the book for the route that does.

The Kansas Judicial Council posts the Small Estates Affidavit (02-2024) as a free PDF and Word download on its Legal Forms pages, because K.S.A. 59-1507b makes an affidavit sufficient when it complies in substance with the form the judicial council sets.

There is no equivalent free download for a final accounting. The Judicial Council's Probate Forms 3d holds the sample forms for judicial and nonjudicial procedures in decedents' estates, and the Council's own page says the book is intended for probate attorneys and does not contain detailed instructions about the court's procedural requirements. It sells for 150 dollars plus tax in print, 95 dollars plus tax on CD-ROM for a single user, and 85 dollars for a one-year online subscription to a non-fillable PDF, with free online access for registered Kansas attorneys. Budget for the book or for counsel if you are self-filing a supervised estate, and check with your county's district court and clerk about local formatting before you draft.

One more accounting duty sits outside the settlement article. K.S.A. 59-1005 gives the person executing the trust of a partnership estate, whether a surviving partner or the executor or administrator, the same duty to account and to have that account adjudicated as in ordinary administration, and the same liabilities, remedies and penalties.

When to Bring in a Kansas Attorney

Nothing here decides your estate. Bring in a licensed Kansas attorney when an interested party demands an independent appraisement under K.S.A. 59-1202 and the value is contested, when the nine months under K.S.A. 59-1501 are about to run and the estate cannot close, when a beneficiary objects to the account or to simplified administration under K.S.A. 59-3206, when the estate looks insolvent and the account will decide who goes unpaid, when the decedent or a predeceased spouse received medical assistance and K.S.A. 59-2247(a)(5) applies, and before you sign a verified account you are not certain reconciles. The Kansas probate process sets out where this filing sits in the whole arc.

Frequently Asked Questions

When is the inventory due in a Kansas probate?

Within 30 days after the date of your letters of appointment, unless the court has granted a longer time, under K.S.A. 59-1201. You state the full and fair value as of the date of death opposite each item, verify the whole document by your own affidavit, and sort the property into five classes the statute lists. The court may also require an earlier inventory for good cause shown. Assets that surface later get a supplementary inventory, filed with the court within 30 days after you discover them, under K.S.A. 59-1203.

How long does a Kansas executor have to settle the estate?

Nine months from the date of appointment, under K.S.A. 59-1501. For cause shown the court may extend that period, and each extension is capped at nine months at a time. Missing the deadline does not disqualify you, and it does not relieve you of any loss, liability or penalty caused by the delay. If you fail or refuse to settle for 30 days after the nine months run out, the court may cite you, and the statute assesses all costs of that citation and hearing against you rather than against the estate.

What has to be in a Kansas final accounting?

K.S.A. 59-1502 requires a verified account of administration plus an application asking the court to settle and allow it and to assign the estate. K.S.A. 59-2247(a) then lists what the petition itself must carry: a statement of the account, the names, residences and addresses of the heirs, devisees and legatees, a description of the real estate and the decedent's interest in it at death, the nature and character of each of their claims, and a statement about medical assistance paid under K.S.A. 39-709.

Does a Kansas simplified estate still file a final accounting?

Yes. K.S.A. 59-3205 removes court supervision between the issuance of letters and closing, and then closes the estate through the same K.S.A. 59-2247 petition and K.S.A. 59-2249 hearing a supervised estate uses. Three conditions have to be met first: the time for filing claims has expired, the time to appeal an order admitting or refusing a will has expired, and six months from the date of death have expired. K.S.A. 59-2222(b) makes the point to everyone at the start, because the appointment notice tells interested persons that no notice of the executor's actions will be given except notice of final settlement.

How much notice does a Kansas final settlement hearing need?

It depends on whether the decree assigns real estate. When it does, K.S.A. 59-2247 routes notice through K.S.A. 59-2209: publication once per week for three consecutive weeks, first publication within 30 days after the order fixing the time and place, mailed copies to each known heir, devisee and legatee within seven days after that first publication, and a hearing set no earlier than 10 days and no later than 30 days after the last publication. In all other cases notice is given or waived under K.S.A. 59-2208, which lets the court set the manner and length and lets any competent person waive in writing.

Does Kansas require an appraisal of estate property?

No, unless someone asks for one. K.S.A. 59-1202 says no independent appraisement shall be made unless a party having an interest in the estate requests one. If a request comes in, you appoint up to three appraisers, the court approves them absent good cause, and they have 30 days to value each item and return the certified inventory and appraisement to you for filing with the district court. Their pay is whatever the court deems reasonable. K.S.A. 59-1207 also lets you hire advisers to help you value inventoried items, again at court-set compensation.

What does a Kansas executor get paid?

Kansas sets no percentage. K.S.A. 59-1717 allows every fiduciary the necessary expenses incurred in executing the trust and such compensation for services, and for the services of the fiduciary's attorneys, as shall be just and reasonable. You may apply during administration for an allowance on compensation and attorney fees rather than waiting for the final hearing. Under K.S.A. 59-1504 a compensation provision in the will is taken as full payment unless you file a written renunciation, and K.S.A. 59-1711 lets the court reduce or forfeit compensation when a fiduciary fails to perform a duty.

Related Guides

• Kansas Executor Duties
• Kansas Probate Timeline
• Kansas Probate Guide
• Kansas Creditor Claims
• Kansas Small Estates Affidavit
• Kansas District Courts by County

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• Title: K.S.A. 59-1607, Power of testator or settlor. Publisher: Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes. Publication Date: L. 1939, ch. 180, § 126; text current through the 2025 session, accessed 2026-09-08. URL: https://www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch59/059_016_0007.html
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• Title: K.S.A. 59-1711, Removal and penalties. Publisher: Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes. Publication Date: L. 1965, ch. 346, § 19; text current through the 2025 session, accessed 2026-09-08. URL: https://www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch59/059_017_0011.html
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• Title: K.S.A. 59-1718, Discharge. Publisher: Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes. Publication Date: L. 1939, ch. 180, § 148; text current through the 2025 session, accessed 2026-09-08. URL: https://www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch59/059_017_0018.html
• Title: K.S.A. 59-2208, Notice fixed by court; waiver. Publisher: Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes. Publication Date: L. 2005, ch. 45, § 2; text current through the 2025 session, accessed 2026-09-08. URL: https://www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch59/059_022_0008.html
• Title: K.S.A. 59-2209, Notice by publication and mailing. Publisher: Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes. Publication Date: L. 2023, ch. 77, § 8; text current through the 2025 session, accessed 2026-09-08. URL: https://www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch59/059_022_0009.html
• Title: K.S.A. 59-2213, Judgments; verification of the petition; vacation or modification. Publisher: Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes. Publication Date: L. 1995, ch. 179, § 1; text current through the 2025 session, accessed 2026-09-08. URL: https://www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch59/059_022_0013.html
• Title: K.S.A. 59-2215, Remission of court costs in estates under $10,000 in value. Publisher: Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes. Publication Date: L. 2023, ch. 77, § 9; text current through the 2025 session, accessed 2026-09-08. URL: https://www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch59/059_022_0015.html
• Title: K.S.A. 59-2222, Notice of hearing; contents. Publisher: Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes. Publication Date: L. 2015, ch. 42, § 15; text current through the 2025 session, accessed 2026-09-08. URL: https://www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch59/059_022_0022.html
• Title: K.S.A. 59-2246, Partial distribution. Publisher: Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes. Publication Date: L. 2004, ch. 73, § 3; text current through the 2025 session, accessed 2026-09-08. URL: https://www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch59/059_022_0046.html
• Title: K.S.A. 59-2247, Petition and notice of final settlement. Publisher: Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes. Publication Date: L. 2015, ch. 42, § 16; text current through the 2025 session, accessed 2026-09-08. URL: https://www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch59/059_022_0047.html
• Title: K.S.A. 59-2248, Determination of advancements. Publisher: Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes. Publication Date: L. 1939, ch. 180, § 224; text current through the 2025 session, accessed 2026-09-08. URL: https://www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch59/059_022_0048.html
• Title: K.S.A. 59-2249, Hearing and final decree; real estate; distributive share subject to order of garnishment. Publisher: Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes. Publication Date: L. 2010, ch. 44, § 22; text current through the 2025 session, accessed 2026-09-08. URL: https://www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch59/059_022_0049.html
• Title: K.S.A. 59-2253, Petition and notice of hearing on account. Publisher: Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes. Publication Date: L. 1939, ch. 180, § 229; text current through the 2025 session, accessed 2026-09-08. URL: https://www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch59/059_022_0053.html
• Title: K.S.A. 59-2255, Hearing on account. Publisher: Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes. Publication Date: L. 1939, ch. 180, § 231; text current through the 2025 session, accessed 2026-09-08. URL: https://www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch59/059_022_0055.html
• Title: K.S.A. 59-2256, Effect of court approval. Publisher: Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes. Publication Date: L. 1939, ch. 180, § 232; text current through the 2025 session, accessed 2026-09-08. URL: https://www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch59/059_022_0056.html
• Title: K.S.A. 59-2287, Refusal to grant letters of administration; order; notice; termination of administration. Publisher: Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes. Publication Date: L. 2023, ch. 77, § 11; text current through the 2025 session, accessed 2026-09-08. URL: https://www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch59/059_022_0087.html
• Title: K.S.A. 59-3202, Administration as simplified estate or supervised estate; determination by court. Publisher: Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes. Publication Date: L. 1975, ch. 299, § 30; text current through the 2025 session, accessed 2026-09-08. URL: https://www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch59/059_032_0002.html
• Title: K.S.A. 59-3204, Executor or administrator; duties. Publisher: Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes. Publication Date: L. 2010, ch. 44, § 26; text current through the 2025 session, accessed 2026-09-08. URL: https://www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch59/059_032_0004.html
• Title: K.S.A. 59-3205, Court supervision not required; exceptions; order to close estate. Publisher: Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes. Publication Date: L. 1985, ch. 191, § 56; text current through the 2025 session, accessed 2026-09-08. URL: https://www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch59/059_032_0005.html
• Title: K.S.A. 59-3206, Objections to continuing administration as simplified estate; procedure; change to supervised administration. Publisher: Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes. Publication Date: L. 1975, ch. 299, § 34; text current through the 2025 session, accessed 2026-09-08. URL: https://www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch59/059_032_0006.html
• Title: K.S.A. 59-3302, Petition; contents. Publisher: Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes. Publication Date: L. 2010, ch. 44, § 27; text current through the 2025 session, accessed 2026-09-08. URL: https://www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch59/059_033_0002.html
• Title: K.S.A. 59-3304, Orders of court if informal administration appropriate; bond. Publisher: Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes. Publication Date: L. 1985, ch. 191, § 4; text current through the 2025 session, accessed 2026-09-08. URL: https://www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch59/059_033_0004.html
• Title: K.S.A. 59-102, Definitions. Publisher: Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes. Publication Date: L. 1997, ch. 32, § 1; text current through the 2025 session, accessed 2026-09-08. URL: https://www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch59/059_001_0002.html
• Title: K.S.A. 59-1005, Accounting; liabilities and penalties. Publisher: Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes. Publication Date: L. 1939, ch. 180, § 80; text current through the 2025 session, accessed 2026-09-08. URL: https://www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch59/059_010_0005.html
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• Title: Small Estates Affidavit - K.S.A. 59-1507b, form revision 02-2024. Publisher: Kansas Judicial Council. Publication Date: 02-2024; page accessed 2026-09-08. URL: https://www.kjc.ks.gov/legal-forms/small-estates-affidavit-k-s-a-59-1507b

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