Kansas Probate Guide

Kansas probate is the court proceeding that proves a will, appoints an executor or administrator, pays the estate's debts in a set order, and passes what is left to the heirs, devisees and legatees. One court hears all of it. K.S.A. 20-301 puts a district court in each of the 105 Kansas counties and gives it general original jurisdiction of all matters, civil and criminal.

So the forum question that eats a week in some states has a one-line answer here. Kansas has no separate probate court. The proceeding runs under Chapter 59, the Kansas Probate Code, on the district court's docket, and the only thing that changes between Rawlins County and Sedgwick County is the courthouse and the clerk. The 105 counties are grouped into 31 judicial districts by K.S.A. 4-202 through 4-232, which is a way of sharing judges rather than a second forum. Find yours in the Kansas district courts by county directory.

Read this page as a map of the proceeding rather than a filing packet. Kansas gives an estate four named administration routes, and two of them carry no dollar limit at all, which is the part almost every page about Kansas probate leaves out. What follows walks the routes, then the steps, then the clocks, then what the court charges.

Where You File

K.S.A. 59-2203 sets venue, and it turns on real estate rather than on residence alone.

• If the decedent died a Kansas resident and owned an interest in real property in the county of residence, the proceeding belongs in that county.
• If the decedent died a Kansas resident and owned no interest in real property in the county of residence, the proceeding may be had in that county of residence or in any county where the decedent owned an interest in real property.
• If the decedent was not a Kansas resident, the proceeding may be had in any county where the decedent left an estate to be administered under K.S.A. 59-805.

Proceedings first legally commenced reach all of the decedent's property in Kansas. Where someone files in two counties, the later case is stayed until venue is settled, and the district court transmits the entire file to the proper county if venue lands elsewhere. A partnership estate administered by the surviving partner follows the deceased partner's county of residence.

Where the estate is already open in another state and the Kansas asset is land or a mineral interest, the question is Kansas ancillary probate rather than the domiciliary route below.

Kansas Names Four Administration Routes, and Two Have No Dollar Limit

The probate code defines its own routes in K.S.A. 59-102. Subsection (5) names simplified administration under the Kansas simplified estates act. Subsection (7) names informal administration under the Kansas informal administration act. Subsection (6) then defines supervised administration by subtraction: administration by a personal representative under the code, exclusive of the simplified estates act, the informal administration act, or refusal to grant letters. Refusal to grant letters under K.S.A. 59-2287 is the fourth.

One vocabulary note before the routes. K.S.A. 59-102(2) defines "personal representative" to include executors, administrators, administrators with the will annexed, administrators de bonis non, conservators and guardians. In Kansas that term also covers fiduciaries for living people, so this page says "executor or administrator", which is the pair Chapter 59 itself uses through the administration articles.

Simplified administration

K.S.A. 59-3201 through 59-3206 is the Kansas simplified estates act, and it sets no dollar threshold. The petitioner asks for it in the petition, and K.S.A. 59-2219(5) requires the petition to state whether administration is sought under the act and to give one or more reasons.

The court then decides. At the hearing on the petition for appointment or for probate of a will, K.S.A. 59-3202 has the court determine whether the estate is administered as a simplified estate or a supervised estate, weighing the size of the estate, the degree of kinship of the heirs, devisees and people seeking appointment, the solvency of the estate, the nature of the estate, the wishes of the heirs and devisees, the probable cost of administration and settlement, and any other pertinent matters.

Simplified administration saves court supervision rather than calendar time. Once letters issue, K.S.A. 59-3205 says no further court supervision is necessary or required until the court orders the estate closed, with two exceptions: the executor or administrator may petition for a judicial determination of a single act without asking for supervision for the rest of the administration, and anyone may force the change described below. Letters issued this way are designated on their face as issued under the Kansas simplified estates act (K.S.A. 59-3203(c)), and the notice of hearing has to warn everyone that the court need not supervise the administration and that no notice of the executor's or administrator's actions will be given except notice of final settlement (K.S.A. 59-2222(b)).

The route can be revoked. Under K.S.A. 59-3206, any person interested in the estate may file an objection stating reasons, or the executor or administrator may state that the estate cannot be administered advantageously under the act, and the court hears the issue after notice. If it ends simplified administration, supervised administration follows and the simplified letters are revoked. Republication of a notice to creditors already published is not required, and a proper inventory already filed stays good.

Closing waits on three conditions together, not one. K.S.A. 59-3205 lets the court order the estate closed when the time for filing claims has expired, the time to appeal an order admitting or refusing to admit a will has expired, and six months from the date of death have expired.

Informal administration

K.S.A. 59-3301 through 59-3306 is the Kansas informal administration act, supplemental to and part of the probate code since January 1, 1986. It also carries no dollar limit, and it is the shortest court route Kansas offers, because the court itself assigns the property in one hearing rather than appointing a fiduciary to administer the estate over months.

Any person interested in an estate may petition. K.S.A. 59-3302(b) lists twelve things the petition must contain, and the list is the work: an inventory and valuation or appraisal of all of the decedent's assets, a listing of the decedent's paid and unpaid debts, an estimate of the costs and expenses including reasonable fees, a statement of which specific money will pay the unsatisfied debts, the nature and form of disposition requested with the will or valid settlement agreement attached, the reasons informal administration is appropriate, the amount and type of bond, and a fallback stating which alternative under K.S.A. 59-3305 is requested if the court says no.

If the court finds the estate can be completely administered under the act, K.S.A. 59-3304(a)(1) orders informal administration and assigns every remaining asset, with enough particularity to allow transfer, to the legatees and devisees under a will admitted to probate, to the heirs under the law of descent and distribution, or to the takers under a valid settlement agreement. The court may also order family allowances, order the debts paid in order of preference, designate the money that pays them, release a nominated fiduciary, admit the will, and require bond.

Two bonds matter here. The person ordered to pay debts and expenses files a bond of not less than 125 percent of the money authorized for that purpose, unless a testamentary instrument excuses it (K.S.A. 59-3304(b)(1)). And if distribution is ordered before six months from the death or before the nonclaim period has run, each distributee gives a redelivery bond equal to the value of the property assigned to that distributee (K.S.A. 59-3304(b)(2)).

The court can decline. K.S.A. 59-3305 lets it dismiss, order a refusal-to-grant-letters proceeding, order a determination of descent where more than six months have passed since the death, or order simplified or supervised administration without a further notice of hearing beyond the notice to creditors.

Supervised administration

Everything the code does not send down one of the other three roads is supervised administration, and it is the route the rest of this page walks step by step. Nothing forces the choice at the outset. An estate can open as a simplified estate and become supervised on an objection under K.S.A. 59-3206, and an informal petition can be redirected into either one under K.S.A. 59-3305.

Set side by side, the routes differ on who supervises, what the petition has to carry and how the estate closes rather than on any dollar cutoff. The four Kansas administration routes puts those differences in a single table.

Refusal to grant letters

K.S.A. 59-2287 lets the district court, in its discretion, refuse to grant letters at all. It has two separate grounds, and only one of them carries a dollar figure.

Under subsection (a)(1) there is no figure: the test is whether the value of the real or personal property owned by the decedent is no greater than the exempt property allowed by law plus the K.S.A. 59-403 allowance to the surviving spouse or minor children. Under subsection (a)(2) the real and personal estate must not exceed $75,000, the estate must not be subject to the K.S.A. 59-403 allowances or those allowances must be waived, and the heir, devisee, legatee, creditor or other interested person who petitions gives bond of not less than the value of the estate, conditioned on paying the decedent's debts in order of preference so far as the assets permit and distributing the balance.

The order says no letters of administration will issue. When further proceedings look unnecessary, K.S.A. 59-2287(d) has the court enter an order terminating the administration and relieving the surviving spouse and minor children of further obligations. Subsection (a)(2) adds that no creditor, heir or other person is deemed to have an interest in real estate sold under the section after six months from the date of death.

The two routes that sit outside administration

Kansas also has two ways to move property with no administration of any kind, and a family often reaches for one of these first.

The small estates affidavit in K.S.A. 59-1507b transfers personal property to a successor on an affidavit handed to whoever holds it, with no letters, no court filing and no waiting period. Read the scope in the statute's own words, because it measures one thing and moves another. The test is whether "the total assets of the estate of the decedent subject to probate" exceed $75,000, so a house that is subject to probate counts toward the figure. What the affidavit transfers is "any personal property of whatever nature", which cannot reach real estate. A Kansas resident who left a $60,000 house and $30,000 in the bank is over the line, and even under it the affidavit could not clear the house. A will does not close the route: the section opens "When a resident of the state dies, whether testate or intestate", and defines a successor to include a person entitled by will, a person entitled by intestate succession, and a person nominated as personal representative under the decedent's will. The mechanics, the Judicial Council form and the bank-side questions live on the $75,000 small estates affidavit page.

A determination of descent under K.S.A. 59-2250 is the ordinary Kansas way to clear title to real estate when nobody opened a case. It becomes available once the decedent has been dead more than six months, and only where no will was filed under K.S.A. 59-618a within six months of the death, no petition to probate a will has been filed in Kansas, and no petition for administration has been filed or administration had without a determination of descent. Any person interested in the estate, or claiming an interest in the property, petitions the district court of the county of residence or of any county where the property sits, and the court assigns the property under the laws of intestate succession or a valid settlement agreement.

The Supervised Route, Step by Step

File the petition. K.S.A. 59-2219 lists what a petition for administration must state: the decedent's name, residence, and date and place of death; the names, ages, residences and addresses of the heirs so far as they can be found with reasonable diligence; the general character and probable value of the real and personal property; the person for whom letters are asked; and whether administration is sought under the simplified estates act. A petition to probate a will adds the devisees and legatees, the named executor, the scrivener of the will, and the will itself if it can be produced (K.S.A. 59-2220). A petition for a lost or destroyed will states the will's provisions.

Notice of hearing. The court fixes a time and place and notice goes out under K.S.A. 59-2209 unless the court orders otherwise (K.S.A. 59-2222(a)). Where the state paid medical assistance under K.S.A. 39-709 to the decedent or a predeceased spouse, subsection (e) entitles the paying state to notice.

Prove the will. At the hearing on a petition to probate a will, K.S.A. 59-2224 requires the testimony of at least two subscribing witnesses in person, by affidavit or by deposition, unless the will is uncontested and self-proved. The court may waive that on a showing the witnesses are unavailable. Any heir, devisee or legatee may prosecute or oppose the probate of the will, which is where a Kansas will contest begins. If the instrument is not allowed as the last will and the estate should be administered, the court grants administration to the person entitled.

Notify the surviving spouse. Within 10 days of qualifying, the executor or administrator mails the surviving spouse a copy of the will with the notice statement printed in K.S.A. 59-2233, telling the spouse that K.S.A. 59-6a201 through 59-6a217 may give a right to take a share of property owned at death and of transfers made before death. Proof is by affidavit filed with the court.

Publish notice to creditors. K.S.A. 59-709(a) gives the petitioner 30 days after filing to publish, once a week for three consecutive weeks, in a newspaper of the county authorized to publish legal notices. K.S.A. 59-2236(a) sets what the notice says, including the four-month exhibit deadline, and combines it with the probate notice unless that notice was waived. Subsection (b) of K.S.A. 59-709 then requires actual notice to known or reasonably ascertainable creditors before the nonclaim period expires. Notice to creditors is unnecessary where the petition was filed after the K.S.A. 59-2239 period had already run.

File the inventory. Within 30 days after the date of the letters of appointment, unless the court grants longer, K.S.A. 59-1201 requires a verified inventory stating the full and fair value of each item as of the date of death: all Kansas real estate and tangible personal property, and all intangible property wherever located that comes to the executor's or administrator's possession or knowledge. It is classified as real estate with a plat or survey description, furniture and household goods and wearing apparel, corporation stocks by certificate number, written evidence of debt described by debtor and recording data, and all other personal property. A partner's estate carries a separate inventory of the whole partnership estate and of the decedent's share.

Pay in the statutory order. If the assets will not cover every allowed demand, K.S.A. 59-1301 ranks them. First class is a reasonable funeral expense, and after that allowance, any claim for medical assistance paid under K.S.A. 39-709. Second class is the appropriate and necessary costs and expenses of administration and the reasonable expenses of the last sickness. Third class is judgments rendered against the decedent in life, and judgments or liens on the decedent's property in order of priority. Fourth class is all other demands duly proved. No demand takes preference over another in the same class. Notice to creditors in Kansas works through exhibiting, allowance and the two bars.

Settle and close. Every executor and administrator has nine months from the date of appointment to settle the estate, and the court may extend that for cause in further blocks of up to nine months (K.S.A. 59-1501). The petition for final settlement carries a statement of the account, the heirs, devisees and legatees, a description of the decedent's real estate, the nature of each claim to it, and a statement about medical assistance paid under K.S.A. 39-709 (K.S.A. 59-2247). At the hearing the court settles the account, determines who is entitled, and assigns the estate by decree naming each person and the share taken (K.S.A. 59-2249). Where the decree includes real estate, a certified copy goes to the county clerk for the transfer record. Failing to settle for 30 days after the nine months runs can draw a citation, and the costs of that citation are assessed against the executor or administrator personally rather than against the estate.

The full role, from the oath through the closing account, is on the serving as executor in Kansas page.

The Clocks

Those floors put a clean supervised administration past five months at the earliest, because the four-month creditor window cannot begin until the notice publishes and publication itself is due within 30 days of the petition. A simplified estate carries a firmer floor, since K.S.A. 59-3205 will not let the court close it until six months from the death have run. How long Kansas probate takes turns the table into a schedule and answers the duration question on its own page.

What the District Court Charges

Kansas prices probate as a fixed statutory docket fee rather than as a percentage of the estate, and it says so in the statute. K.S.A. 59-104(a)(2) says the docket fee this section sets is the only such fee, that it may be established only by an act of the legislature, and that no other authority is established by law or otherwise to collect a fee. So there is no value-based filing fee anywhere in the state, and no county sets a probate surcharge of its own. The single addition the statute permits is the supreme court charge in the last row below.

Two things about that last row. The charge is permissive rather than automatic, so a clerk may quote $109.50 or something up to $131.50. And the window moves: 2026 Kan. Sess. Laws ch. 35, sec. 16 reset it to July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2030, which the published statute text on the revisor's site does not yet show. Ask the clerk what the court is actually charging today.

Costs beyond the docket fee are taxed as the court directs. K.S.A. 59-104(d) treats witness fees, appraiser fees, service outside the state, depositions and transcripts, publication of legal notice, executor or administrator fees, and attorney fees as additional court costs approved by the court unless a statute fixes them. K.S.A. 59-2214 tells the court to tax probate costs against the estate unless doing so would be unjust and inequitable, and lets a contesting claimant file a poverty affidavit in place of security for costs. Where the total assets of the estate do not exceed $10,000, K.S.A. 59-2215 lets the court remit the court costs or any part of them. A poverty affidavit stands in for the docket fee itself under K.S.A. 59-104(b), which applies K.S.A. 60-2001(b) and 60-2005 to probate. What a self-filer actually pays, and where Kansas does and does not publish help, sits on the filing Kansas probate yourself page.

Who Serves, and What They Are Paid

Kansas does not publish a commission schedule, and that absence is the answer rather than a gap in the research. K.S.A. 59-1717 allows every fiduciary the necessary expenses incurred in executing the trust, plus compensation for services and for the services of the fiduciary's attorneys that is "just and reasonable". The fiduciary may apply to the court at any time during administration for an allowance on compensation and on attorney fees.

The district court decides what is reasonable on the record it has. Time records, the size and nature of the estate, the work the administration actually took, and any objection an heir files are what move that number. Any published Kansas executor fee of 2 percent to 5 percent is imported from somewhere other than Chapter 59, which sets no percentage at all.

One statute sits ahead of that discretion, and an executor named in a will should read it before billing anything. K.S.A. 59-1504 says that where the decedent's will provides for the executor's compensation, that provision is taken as the executor's full compensation, unless the executor files a written instrument renouncing all claim to what the will allows. A modest figure written into a will in 1994 still binds the person who accepts the appointment in 2026, and the section's only exit is that written renunciation. The same section pays the other side of a will fight out of the estate: anyone who defends a will or prosecutes its probate in good faith and with just cause, whether or not the attempt succeeds, and anyone who successfully opposes probate, is allowed necessary expenses and reasonable compensation for their own and their attorneys' services.

What the Family Keeps Before Creditors Are Paid

Kansas protects the household ahead of the debts, and it protects the house by acreage rather than by dollars.

K.S.A. 59-401 exempts a homestead of 160 acres outside an incorporated city, or one acre inside one, or a manufactured or mobile home, occupied by the decedent and family at the death as a residence and still occupied by the surviving spouse and children afterward. It is wholly exempt from distribution and from the decedent's debts, with carve-outs for taxes, purchase-money obligations, improvements, and any lien both spouses consented to. Title passes the same as other property; the exemption rides on top of it. There is no dollar cap, so any Kansas homestead figure you see in dollars came from another state.

K.S.A. 59-403 then does two different jobs in one section. Subsection (a) sets aside named items in kind with no value limit: wearing apparel, the family library, pictures, musical instruments, furniture and household goods, home utensils and implements, one automobile, and the provisions and fuel on hand needed to support the spouse and minor children for a year. Subsection (b) is a separate cash-or-property allowance of not more than $75,000 at appraised value, with the exact amount set by the court after weighing the condition of the estate. Neither is liable for the decedent's debts, apart from liens existing at the death.

Who takes the rest depends on the will, or, with no will, on the rules that decide who inherits without a will. Kansas intestacy is flat: K.S.A. 59-504 gives a surviving spouse everything where the decedent left no children or issue of a deceased child, and exactly one-half where the decedent left children or their issue, with K.S.A. 59-506 sending the other half to the children and to the issue of a deceased child by representation. That one-half does not change depending on whose children they are. The separate right a surviving spouse has to elect against a will sits in K.S.A. 59-6a201 through 59-6a217, which is the statute the notice in K.S.A. 59-2233 points the spouse to.

Frequently Asked Questions

Which court handles probate in Kansas?

The district court, in every one of Kansas's 105 counties. K.S.A. 20-301 puts a district court in each county and gives it general original jurisdiction of all matters, civil and criminal. Kansas has no separate probate court, so the forum answer does not change from county to county. The 105 counties are grouped into 31 judicial districts by K.S.A. 4-202 through 4-232, and a district shares judges rather than splitting the forum. Your case is filed with the clerk of the district court for the county that holds venue under K.S.A. 59-2203.

How much does it cost to file probate in Kansas?

The docket fee is a flat statewide $109.50 for probate of an estate or of a will, set by the table in K.S.A. 59-104(a)(1). The same table charges $49.50 for a determination of descent, $48.50 to refuse letters of administration, $48.50 to file a will and affidavit under K.S.A. 59-618a, and $173.00 for decrees in probate from another state. K.S.A. 59-104(a)(2) says that fee is the only such fee, that it may be set only by an act of the legislature, and that from July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2030 the supreme court may add a charge of up to $22 per docket fee. Publication of the notice to creditors is paid to a newspaper and sits outside that table.

How long do creditors have to file a claim in a Kansas estate?

Four months from the date the notice to creditors is first published, or 30 days after actual notice to a creditor whose identity is known or reasonably ascertainable, whichever is later. That is K.S.A. 59-2239(1), read with the notice text required by K.S.A. 59-2236(a). A separate and harder bar runs from the death itself: no creditor has any claim against or lien upon the decedent's property, other than liens existing at the death, unless a petition to probate the will or for administration is filed within six months of the death and the demand is exhibited in time.

Is there a deadline to open probate in Kansas?

There is a deadline to probate a will. K.S.A. 59-617 says no will of a testator who died a Kansas resident is effectual to pass property unless a petition for its probate is filed within six months after the death. Anyone holding the will may instead file it, or a copy, with the statutory affidavit under K.S.A. 59-618a, and a will filed that way inside the six months may be admitted to probate later. An intestate estate has no matching front-end deadline, though the six-month creditor bar in K.S.A. 59-2239(1) runs from the death whether or not anyone opens a case.

Does Kansas have a small estate affidavit?

Yes, and it opens no court case. K.S.A. 59-1507b lets a successor collect personal property on an affidavit given to the bank, employer or company holding it, with no waiting period and no filing fee. Read the measure carefully, because the statute measures one thing and moves another. The test is whether the total assets of the estate subject to probate exceed $75,000, which counts a house that is subject to probate. What the affidavit transfers is personal property of whatever nature, which cannot reach Kansas real estate at all. A will does not close the route, since the section applies whether the decedent died testate or intestate.

How much does a Kansas executor get paid?

Kansas publishes no percentage and no schedule. K.S.A. 59-1717 allows every fiduciary the necessary expenses incurred in executing the trust plus compensation for services, and for the services of the fiduciary's attorneys, that is just and reasonable. The district court decides what is reasonable on the record in front of it, and the fiduciary may apply at any time during administration for an allowance on compensation and on attorney fees. Where the will provides for the executor's compensation, K.S.A. 59-1504 takes that provision as the executor's full compensation unless the executor files a written instrument renouncing all claim to it. Any 2 percent to 5 percent range you find on a Kansas page came from somewhere other than Chapter 59.

Related Guides

• Kansas Probate Timeline
• Kansas Creditor Claims in Probate
• Kansas Small Estates Affidavit
• Kansas Executor Duties
• Kansas Intestate Succession
• Kansas Ancillary Probate
• Kansas Probate Without a Lawyer
• Kansas District Courts by County

This page describes Kansas law broadly rather than advising on one estate. Confirm every date and dollar figure with the district court holding the file, or with a licensed Kansas attorney, before you act on it.

Sources:

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