Nebraska Will Contest

Nebraska has no standalone will contest statute. A contest here is a formal testacy proceeding, and an objection is a pleading filed in the county court case under Neb. Rev. Stat. § 30-2428. Filing one obliges the court to continue the hearing at least fourteen days, and before that continued date any party may move the will question to the district court for a jury trial.

Every rule on this page was read at the Nebraska Legislature's own statute pages on 2026-09-10, section by section, with the amendment chain checked on each one, and each rule is cited where it appears. The fee figures come from the Nebraska Judicial Branch schedule effective July 1, 2026 and from the fee statutes themselves.

This page describes the mechanism. It says nothing about whether an objection fits a particular family, and a licensed Nebraska attorney is the person who answers that. If the case has not opened yet, the Nebraska probate process walks through the proceeding an objection interrupts, and what makes a Nebraska will valid sets out the execution rules most objections argue about.

The Nebraska Contest Calendar

Read the third and seventh rows together, because they are the two clocks families confuse. A will offered formally is opposed at the proceeding itself. A will already waved through by the registrar carries the Section 30-2408(3) window instead, which runs to the later of twelve months from that informal probate or three years from the death, so a late informal probate pushes the deadline past the three-year mark rather than pulling it in.

Section 30-2415(a) is why that informal route needs a window of its own. A written statement of informal probate is conclusive as to all persons until superseded by an order in a formal testacy proceeding, and no defect in the application or in the procedure leading to it renders the probate void. An informally probated will is not merely unexamined, it is binding, and the formal proceeding this page describes is what unbinds it. Two matters sit outside the three-year bar in Section 30-2408 before its four numbered exceptions are reached at all: a proceeding to probate a will already probated at the testator's domicile, and appointment proceedings in an estate where a personal representative has already been appointed.

Where the Case Is Heard, and When a Jury Decides

Neb. Rev. Stat. § 24-517(1) gives each county court exclusive original jurisdiction of all matters relating to decedents' estates, including the probate of wills and the construction of them, subject to two exceptions the section names at § 30-2464(c) and § 30-2486. Nebraska has 93 counties, and Nebraska probate courts by county lists the courthouse for each one.

Section 30-2429.01 is what makes a Nebraska contest different from an ordinary probate hearing. Three filings trigger it: an objection to probate of a will, a petition to set aside an informal probate of a will, and a petition to prevent an informal probate that is the subject of a pending application. Any of the three obliges the county court to continue the originally scheduled hearing at least fourteen days.

What that continuance buys is a choice. At any time before the continued hearing date, any party may transfer the proceeding to determine whether the decedent left a valid will to the district court, by doing three things at once:

• Filing a notice of transfer with the county court.
• Depositing with the clerk of the county court a docket fee of the district court for cases originally commenced in district court.
• Paying the clerk of the county court a fee of twenty dollars.

Within ten days of those requirements being met, the clerk of the county court transmits a certification of the case file and the docket fee to the clerk of the district court. Filing that certification is what gives the district court jurisdiction over the contest. Any party then has thirty days from that filing to add objections, and the district court may order whatever additional pleadings the matter needs.

Then comes the sentence worth knowing before an objection is drafted. Under Section 30-2429.01(4), trial shall be to a jury unless a jury is waived by all parties who have filed pleadings in the matter. One party who wants a jury is enough to get one. Section 30-2429.01(5) sends the result home: the final decision and judgment are certified back to the county court, which carries them into execution.

So both of these are true in Nebraska, and only the second is the answer a family searching for a contest actually needs. The county court holds exclusive original jurisdiction over the estate. The will question inside that estate can be tried to a jury in the district court.

What a Formal Testacy Proceeding Is

Section 30-2425 opens with a definition that is unusually plain for a probate code: a formal testacy proceeding is litigation to determine whether a decedent left a valid will. An interested person starts one by filing a petition, and the section names three shapes it can take.

• A petition asking the court, after notice and hearing, to enter an order probating a will.
• A petition to set aside an informal probate of a will, or to prevent an informal probate of a will that is the subject of a pending application.
• A petition under Section 30-2426(b) for an order that the decedent died intestate.

A petition may seek formal probate of a will whether or not the same will, or a conflicting one, has already been informally probated. The proceeding may, but need not, include a request to appoint a personal representative.

Two things freeze the moment a formal testacy proceeding is pending, and both are in Section 30-2425. The registrar may not act on any application for informal probate of any will of the decedent or on any application for informal appointment of a personal representative. And a personal representative already appointed must refrain from making any further distribution of the estate once notice of the commencement reaches that person, unless the petition also asks the court to confirm the previous appointment.

Notice that only distribution stops. The section says so directly: absent a request to restrain the acting personal representative, or where such a request is denied, commencing a formal proceeding has no effect on that person's powers and duties other than the ones relating to distribution. Bills still get paid and property still gets managed while the will fight runs, on the schedule the Nebraska probate timeline describes. A petitioner who wants more than a distribution freeze has to ask for it, and Section 30-2425 lets that petitioner request an order restraining the acting personal representative and the appointment of a special administrator.

The Objection Itself

Section 30-2428 is one sentence long. Any party to a formal proceeding who opposes the probate of a will for any reason shall state in that party's pleadings the objections to probate of the will.

There is no Nebraska objection form to fill in, and that is worth confirming rather than assuming, because the judiciary publishes a good deal for decedents' estates. Its Master Forms List carries a numbered CC 15 probate series, and the estates category was enumerated on 2026-09-10: fourteen forms, nine of them CC 15. The nine are CC 15:1 Demand for Notice, CC 15:2 Statement of Claim, CC 15:3 Release of Claim, CC 15:5 and CC 15:5.1 on inheritance tax notice, CC 15:6 Authorization to Withdraw Will, CC 15:7 Order Appointing a Guardian Ad Litem in a Proceeding Under the Nebraska Probate Code, CC 15:40 the affidavit for transfer of personal property without probate, and CC 15:41 the same affidavit for real property. The judiciary's self-help index for estates covers claims against estates, deposit of a will, a flowchart for informal probate filed with a will, those two affidavits and a motor vehicle title transfer.

None of that reaches an objection, which is a pleading drafted for the case rather than a form to complete. Two of the nine still matter to a person weighing one. CC 15:1 is the demand for notice described further down this page, which is how someone outside the Section 30-2427 notice list hears about a filing in time to act on it. CC 15:7 is the order a court enters when it appoints a guardian ad litem under Section 30-2222.

Who Proves What

Section 30-2431 assigns the burdens, and it does so in a way that surprises people who arrive expecting to prove the will invalid from a standing start.

Testamentary capacity sits on the proponent's side of that table. A Nebraska contestant does not have to prove the testator lacked capacity in order to put capacity in issue, because the person offering the will carries prima facie proof of it either way. Parties keep the ultimate burden of persuasion on the matters they had the initial burden of proof on.

Section 30-2431 also fixes the order of decision where two petitions collide. If a will is opposed by a petition for probate of a later will revoking it, the court decides first whether the later will is entitled to probate. If a will is opposed by a petition for a declaration of intestacy, the court decides first whether the will is entitled to probate.

What Changes the Moment Someone Objects

An unopposed testacy petition is light work. Section 30-2429 lets the court order probate or intestacy on the strength of the pleadings if it is satisfied that the conditions of Section 30-2433 have been met, or hold a hearing in open court. Where evidence about execution is needed at all, the affidavit or testimony of one attesting witness is enough, and where that witness is unavailable, execution may be proved by other evidence or affidavit.

Section 30-2430 raises the bar for a contested case. If evidence about the execution of an attested will that is not self-proved is necessary, the testimony of at least one of the attesting witnesses is required, provided that witness is within the state, competent and able to testify. Due execution of an attested or unattested will may still be proved by other evidence.

Section 30-2430(b) then hands a self-proved will a real advantage. Where the will is self-proved, compliance with the signature requirements for execution is conclusively presumed, and the other requirements of execution are presumed subject to rebuttal, without the testimony of any witness, on filing the will with the acknowledgment and affidavits annexed or attached. The one thing that reopens it is proof of fraud or forgery affecting the acknowledgment or affidavit.

Read that carefully before treating a self-proving affidavit as the end of the argument. It settles signatures. It says nothing about undue influence, fraud, duress, mistake or revocation, because none of those is an execution requirement, and Section 30-2431 leaves all five with the contestant.

The Grounds Nebraska Names

Section 30-2431 is as close as the Nebraska Probate Code comes to printing a list of grounds, and it names five for the contestant: undue influence, fraud, duress, mistake and revocation. A sixth route runs the other way, by attacking what the proponent has to prove.

Undue influence, fraud, duress and mistake

The code names these four and stops. No Nebraska statute defines them, sets out their elements, or lists the facts that make one out. Those definitions come from decided Nebraska cases, which is why a contest on any of the four is an attorney's question rather than a page's.

Revocation

Section 30-2332 gives two ways and only two. A will or any part of it is revoked by a later will that revokes it expressly or by inconsistency, evident either from the later will's terms or from competent evidence of them. Or it is revoked by being burned, torn, canceled, obliterated or destroyed with the intent and for the purpose of revoking it, by the testator or by another person in the testator's presence and at the testator's direction.

Attacking the proponent's case

Due execution, death, testamentary capacity and venue belong to the proponent under Section 30-2431, so a failure of proof on any of them can defeat the will without the contestant proving anything affirmative. Section 30-2327 requires a written will signed by the testator, or in the testator's name by another individual in the testator's presence and by the testator's own direction, and signed by at least two individuals who each witnessed either the signing or the testator's acknowledgment of the signature or of the will. The section opens by naming three exceptions to itself: holographic wills, the tangible-property writings allowed by Section 30-2338, and wills saved by the choice-of-law rule in Section 30-2331.

Section 30-2328 accepts a holographic will whether or not anyone witnessed it, provided the signature, the material provisions and an indication of the date of signing are in the testator's own handwriting. A missing date does not by itself sink one. Where that indication of date is absent, the section still accepts the instrument if it is the only such instrument, or if it contains no inconsistency with any like instrument, or if the date is determinable from the contents, from extrinsic circumstances or from any other evidence. Nebraska will requirements works through each of these.

What is not a ground in Nebraska

Two dead ends are worth naming, because both send families down the wrong road.

• A change in the family after the will was signed. Section 30-2333(h) says no change of circumstances other than those described in that section, which covers divorce and annulment, and in Section 30-2354, which covers homicide, effects a revocation. Marrying, having a child, or falling out with a beneficiary revokes nothing in Nebraska.
• A witness who inherits. Section 30-2330(b) says a will is not invalid because it was signed by an interested witness. Where no disinterested witness signed, that witness may take only up to the intestate share that witness would have received had the testator died without a will. The gift shrinks and the will stands.

Section 30-2354(a) is the one change of circumstance that does bite. A surviving spouse, heir or devisee who feloniously and intentionally kills the decedent, or aids and abets the killing, takes no benefit under the will, and the estate passes as though that person had predeceased the decedent.

Section 30-2354(f) sets the proof for it, and the second half is the part people miss. A final judgment of conviction for a felonious and intentional killing, or for aiding and abetting one, is conclusive. Where there is no conviction, the court may still determine by a preponderance of the evidence whether the killing was felonious and intentional, so a charge that was never brought does not close the question.

No-Contest Clauses

Neb. Rev. Stat. § 30-24,103 is one sentence: a provision in a will purporting to penalize any interested person for contesting the will or instituting other proceedings relating to the estate is unenforceable if probable cause exists for instituting proceedings.

Two readings follow, and the second is the one people miss. A challenger with probable cause cannot be stripped of an inheritance by a forfeiture clause. A challenger without probable cause can be, because the section makes the clause unenforceable only in the probable-cause case rather than voiding it outright. The statute never defines probable cause, so what counts is a question Nebraska courts answer on facts. A will carrying a forfeiture clause should go to a Nebraska attorney before an objection is filed.

Who May Object, and How to Hear About It in Time

Section 30-2428 speaks of a party to a formal proceeding, so becoming a party comes first. Section 30-2425 lets an interested person commence the proceeding, and Section 30-2427 requires notice to a defined group: the surviving spouse, children and other heirs of the decedent, the devisees and executors named in any will being probated or offered for probate in the county or known to have been offered elsewhere, and any personal representative whose appointment has not been terminated. The clerk also publishes notice to unknown persons and to known persons whose addresses are unknown.

Anyone outside that list has a cheap way in. Section 30-2413 lets any person with a financial or property interest in the estate file a demand for notice at any time after the death, stating the decedent's name, the nature of that interest and an address. After a demand is filed, no order may be made and no filing acted on without notice to the demandant. An order issued without that notice stays valid, but the person who obtained it may be liable for damage the missing notice caused.

Section 30-2222 covers people who cannot speak for themselves. Orders binding a conservator bind the person whose estate that conservator controls, orders binding a guardian bind the ward where no conservator has been appointed, and a parent with no conflict of interest may represent a minor child where no conservator or guardian exists. At any point the court may appoint a guardian ad litem under Sections 30-4201 to 30-4210, and it must record its reasons for doing so.

After the Order

Section 30-2436 makes a formal testacy order final as to all persons on every issue the court considered or might have considered relevant to whether the decedent left a valid will, and on the determination of heirs. It then writes its own exits.

• A later will nobody knew about. The court shall entertain a petition to modify or vacate and to probate another will where the proponents of that later will were unaware of its existence at the time of the earlier proceeding, or were unaware of the earlier proceeding and got no notice of it except by publication.
• An omitted heir. Where intestacy was ordered, the determination of heirs may be reconsidered where a person was left out and was unaware of the relationship to the decedent, unaware of the death, or given no notice except by publication.
• The outer limits on both. A petition under either exit must be filed before the earliest of these: entry of an order approving final distribution, or six months after a closing statement where the estate closed by statement; the point under Section 30-2408 when an original proceeding to probate a will could no longer be started; or twelve months after entry of the order being challenged.
• A transferred case. Section 30-2436(6) sends a petition for modification back to the county court the proceedings were transferred from, and any party may then remove it again under Section 30-2429.01.

Section 30-2437 adds a short general valve. For good cause shown, an order in a formal testacy proceeding may be modified or vacated within the time allowed for appeal.

Two smaller rules round out what the order can say. Section 30-2434 allows more than one instrument to be probated where neither expressly revokes the other and neither works a total revocation by implication, and it shuts the door afterward: once a final order is entered, no petition to probate another instrument may be entertained except as part of a petition to vacate or modify, inside the Section 30-2436 limits. Section 30-2435 has the court enter an order saying so where it becomes evident that the estate is or may be partially intestate even though an instrument is entitled to probate.

Where a contest succeeds outright and no other will stands, the estate passes under Nebraska intestate succession instead of under the document.

Appeals

Section 30-1601(1) sends appeals in all matters arising under the Nebraska Probate Code to the Court of Appeals, in the same manner as an appeal from district court. Section 25-1912(1) supplies the mechanics: a notice of appeal filed within thirty days after entry of the judgment, decree or final order, together with the docket fee. Under Section 30-1601(2) an appeal may be taken by any party and also by any person against whom the final judgment or final order may be made, or who may be affected by it.

One thing moves that thirty days rather than shortening it, and Section 25-1912(3) is where it lives. A timely motion for a new trial, a timely motion to alter or amend the judgment, or a timely motion to set aside the verdict or judgment each terminates the running of the appeal time as to all parties, and the full thirty days start again from the entry of the order ruling on that motion. A notice of appeal filed before the court announces its decision on such a motion has no effect and must be filed again afterward, though no additional fee is required for the second filing.

An appellant who is not a personal representative, conservator, trustee, guardian, guardian ad litem or health care surrogate has an extra step. Section 30-1601(3) requires that person to deposit a supersedeas bond or undertaking with the clerk of the county court within thirty days after entry of the judgment or final order, in the sum the court directs and with at least one approved surety, unless the court directs that none is needed. Failing to do it can cost the appeal, because the Court of Appeals may dismiss on motion and notice.

Three more subsections shape what an appeal does. The appeal supersedes only the matter appealed from and nothing else. The Court of Appeals judgment does not vacate the county court judgment; it is certified back without cost for further proceedings. And Section 30-1601(6) prices a bad appeal: where it appears the appeal was taken vexatiously or for delay, the court shall adjudge that the appellant pay the cost, including an attorney's fee, to the adverse party.

What a Nebraska Contest Costs

The Nebraska Judicial Branch publishes the figure. Its Filing Fees and Court Costs schedule, effective July 1, 2026, carries one row for this filing under Section 30-2429.01, covering an objection to probate of a will to district court, a petition to set aside an informal filing, and a petition to prevent informal probate of a will. The schedule prints $83.00, then a $20.00 county court filing fee, for a total of $103.00.

The statutes behind those numbers line up. Section 30-2429.01(1) names the twenty dollars and requires a deposit of the district court docket fee for cases originally commenced in district court. Section 33-106(1) sets that docket fee at forty-two dollars for each civil and criminal case in district court, on top of the judges' retirement fund fee in Section 24-703. The filing fee for the underlying probate case is a separate schedule keyed to the estate's gross value under Section 33-125.

Attorney fees are the number that decides most of these cases, and no Nebraska statute sets them for a contestant. Section 30-2481 runs the other way: a personal representative, or a person nominated as one, who defends or prosecutes a proceeding in good faith is entitled to receive necessary expenses and disbursements including reasonable attorneys' fees from the estate, whether successful or not. That section is written for the personal representative rather than for the person objecting. A Nebraska probate litigator is the person who can price a contested testacy hearing, and that figure, rather than the $103.00 at the counter, is what keeps an objection from being a routine step.

Problems That Look Like a Will Contest and Are Not

Several complaints have their own remedy, and an objection to probate may delay the fix rather than deliver it.

• The complaint is about a debt or a bill. A claim against the estate runs on its own track and its own clock, described in Nebraska creditor claims.
• The complaint is about which debts get paid first. That is the statutory order of payment, not the will's validity. Nebraska debt payment priority sets it out.
• The complaint is about how the estate is being run. Objecting to a personal representative, an accounting or a sale is a separate matter in the same case and does not turn on whether the will is valid. Nebraska executor duties covers what the job requires.
• The will is valid and the question is what the estate owes. Nebraska taxes inheritances by beneficiary class, and Nebraska inheritance tax explains who pays.
• Nobody is sure probate is needed at all. Small estates have their own affidavit route, covered in the Nebraska small estate affidavit.

Frequently Asked Questions

How long do you have to contest a will in Nebraska?

It depends on how the will reached the court. Where a will was probated informally by the registrar, Neb. Rev. Stat. § 30-2408(3) allows a proceeding to contest it within the later of twelve months from that informal probate or three years from the death. Where a will is offered formally, the objection belongs in the pleadings at that proceeding under Section 30-2428, so the working deadline is the hearing the court sets. Section 30-2408 also bars any probate or testacy proceeding commenced more than three years after the death, subject to four listed exceptions.

Does Nebraska have a will contest statute?

No section of the Nebraska Probate Code is written as a standalone will contest statute. Opposition runs through the formal testacy article, Sections 30-2425 through 30-2437, and through Section 30-2429.01, which handles an objection to probate, a petition to set aside an informal probate and a petition to prevent one. A page describing a fixed Nebraska contest period that starts after a will is admitted is describing another state's code.

Can you get a jury trial in a Nebraska will contest?

Yes, and it happens in district court rather than county court. Section 30-2429.01(1) lets any party file a notice of transfer with the county court before the continued hearing date. Once the case file and docket fee are certified to the district court, Section 30-2429.01(4) says trial shall be to a jury unless a jury is waived by all parties who have filed pleadings in the matter. The final judgment is certified back to the county court under Section 30-2429.01(5).

Who has the burden of proof in a Nebraska will contest?

Section 30-2431 splits it. Proponents of a will carry prima facie proof of due execution, death, testamentary capacity and venue. Contestants carry undue influence, fraud, duress, mistake or revocation. Petitioners seeking to establish intestacy carry prima facie proof of death, venue and heirship. Each party keeps the ultimate burden of persuasion on the matters it had the initial burden of proof on. Testamentary capacity sits with the proponent, not the contestant.

Does a self-proved will stop a Nebraska will contest?

It closes one line of attack and leaves the rest open. Section 30-2430(b) says that where a will is self-proved, compliance with the signature requirements is conclusively presumed and the other requirements of execution are presumed subject to rebuttal, without the testimony of any witness, unless there is proof of fraud or forgery affecting the acknowledgment or affidavit. Undue influence, fraud, duress, mistake and revocation are not execution requirements, so the presumption does not touch them.

Do no-contest clauses work in Nebraska?

Only against a challenger who lacked probable cause. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 30-24,103 is one sentence: a provision in a will purporting to penalize any interested person for contesting the will or instituting other proceedings relating to the estate is unenforceable if probable cause exists for instituting proceedings. The section does not define probable cause and does not void the clause outright, so a Nebraska attorney should read the clause against the facts before anything is filed.

What does it cost to move a Nebraska will contest to district court?

The Nebraska Judicial Branch fee schedule effective July 1, 2026 prints $103.00 in total for an objection to probate of a will to district court, a petition to set aside an informal filing, or a petition to prevent informal probate. That figure is $83.00 for the district court side plus the $20.00 county court filing fee that Section 30-2429.01(1) names. Attorney fees are separate and are the larger number.

Related Guides

• Nebraska Will Requirements
• Nebraska Probate Guide
• Nebraska Probate Timeline
• Nebraska Intestate Succession
• Nebraska Executor Duties
• Nebraska Creditor Claims
• Nebraska Probate Courts by County

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• Title: Neb. Rev. Stat. 30-2429, Formal testacy proceedings; uncontested cases; hearings and proof. Publisher: Nebraska Legislature. Publication Date: Accessed 2026-09-10. URL: https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=30-2429
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• Title: Neb. Rev. Stat. 30-2430, Formal testacy proceedings; contested cases; testimony of attesting witnesses. Publisher: Nebraska Legislature. Publication Date: Accessed 2026-09-10. URL: https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=30-2430
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• Title: Neb. Rev. Stat. 30-2434, Formal testacy proceedings; probate of more than one instrument. Publisher: Nebraska Legislature. Publication Date: Accessed 2026-09-10. URL: https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=30-2434
• Title: Neb. Rev. Stat. 30-2435, Formal testacy proceedings; partial intestacy. Publisher: Nebraska Legislature. Publication Date: Accessed 2026-09-10. URL: https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=30-2435
• Title: Neb. Rev. Stat. 30-2436, Formal testacy proceedings; effect of order; vacation. Publisher: Nebraska Legislature. Publication Date: Accessed 2026-09-10. URL: https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=30-2436
• Title: Neb. Rev. Stat. 30-2437, Formal testacy proceedings; vacation of order for other cause. Publisher: Nebraska Legislature. Publication Date: Accessed 2026-09-10. URL: https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=30-2437
• Title: Neb. Rev. Stat. 30-2481, Expenses in estate litigation. Publisher: Nebraska Legislature. Publication Date: Accessed 2026-09-10. URL: https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=30-2481
• Title: Neb. Rev. Stat. 30-24,103, Penalty clause for contest. Publisher: Nebraska Legislature. Publication Date: Accessed 2026-09-10. URL: https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=30-24,103
• Title: Neb. Rev. Stat. 33-106, Clerk of the district court; fees; enumerated. Publisher: Nebraska Legislature. Publication Date: Accessed 2026-09-10. URL: https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=33-106
• Title: Neb. Rev. Stat. 33-125, County court; probate fees; how determined. Publisher: Nebraska Legislature. Publication Date: Accessed 2026-09-10. URL: https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=33-125
• Title: Filing Fees and Court Costs, effective 07-01-2026. Publisher: Nebraska Judicial Branch. Publication Date: Accessed 2026-09-10. URL: https://nebraskajudicial.gov/rules/administrative-policies-schedules/filing-fees-and-court-costs
• Title: Master Forms List. Publisher: Nebraska Judicial Branch. Publication Date: Accessed 2026-09-10. URL: https://nebraskajudicial.gov/forms
• Title: Self-Help, Estates. Publisher: Nebraska Judicial Branch. Publication Date: Accessed 2026-09-10. URL: https://nebraskajudicial.gov/self-help/estates

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