Morrill County Court Guide

Note: NEBRASKA'S PROBATE FILING FEE IS SET BY STATUTE FOR THE WHOLE STATE, SO NO COUNTY PUBLISHES ITS OWN SCHEDULE, AND THE STATUTE'S NUMBER IS NOT THE BILL. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 33-125 charges $22.00 for a probate commenced and closed informally and a twenty-bracket scale of $22.00 to $1,500.00 on the gross value of the estate for a formal one. Two other statutes load onto every county-court case and neither sits in chapter 33's probate section: § 24-703(3)(a) adds a sum equal to TEN PERCENT of the § 33-125 fee for the Nebraska Retirement Fund for Judges, and six per-case cost statutes add exactly $20.00 (§ 33-107.01 legal services $6.25, § 33-107.03 court automation $8.00, § 33-154 training $1.00, § 33-155 dispute resolution $0.75, § 33-156 indigent defense $3.00, § 47-633 uniform data analysis $1.00). So an informal probate collects $44.00, $45.00 testate, and a formal probate collects $44.00 to $1,670.00. Publishing $22.00 as 'the Nebraska probate filing fee' understates it by half. Separately, § 33-126.03 charges $22.00 for a petition to determine inheritance tax, waived where a formal § 33-125(1)(b) fee was already charged, and § 33-125(2) charges $10.00 (plus $1.00 retirement) where a petition is dismissed with no appointment or order. The statute's own decoy: § 33-125(1)(a) nests a remittance schedule ending 'beginning July 1, 2025, twelve dollars' inside the $22.00, which is the slice the clerk forwards and not a charge. One wrinkle, and it is not trivia because it sets the headline $44.00: § 24-703(3)(a) charges, in county courts, 'a sum ... equal to ten percent of each fee provided by sections 33-125, 33-126.02, 33-126.03, and 33-126.06, rounded to the nearest even dollar.' Read against the 07-01-2026 schedule on 2026-09-10, the schedule prints EXACT ten percent on nineteen of the twenty brackets, odd dollars included ($30.00 to $3.00, $50.00 to $5.00, $70.00 to $7.00), and departs from it on exactly one: the lowest bracket's $22.00 statutory fee carries $2.00 rather than $2.20. That same $2.00 is the retirement fee inside the $44.00 informal total, so the ROUNDED figure, not the exact percentage, is what a clerk collects. An arithmetic check that asserts ten percent on every bracket will fire on bracket (i) and be wrong to do so.