Rhode Island Ancillary Probate

Rhode Island ancillary probate is the second estate file a family opens when someone who lived in another state died owning Rhode Island property. The home state court settles the main estate. A Rhode Island Probate Court clears the Rhode Island assets, under R.I. Gen. Laws § 33-7-8 where there is a will and under chapter 33-8 where there is not.

One structural fact shapes every step below. Rhode Island has no county probate court. The five counties carry no county government and hear no probate matters, so the court that opens your file sits in a city or town hall. Section 8-9-9 gives each of the 39 municipal Probate Courts jurisdiction "in the town or city in which it is established." A person who died in Ohio was domiciled in no Rhode Island town, so the property decides where you file.

This page sits under how a Rhode Island probate case runs, which covers an estate opened for someone who lived here. If you own Rhode Island land and want to spare your family a second court file, read how to avoid probate in Rhode Island.

What Ancillary Probate Means in Rhode Island

A court reaches only the property inside its own state. The court where your relative lived can wind up the whole estate on paper and still not move a Rhode Island deed. One death, two files.

Rhode Island writes that second file into its own filing rules. Section 33-22-2 applies "whenever any petition shall be filed for the probate of a will or for the first grant of original or ancillary administration in this state," and it makes the petitioner state the decedent's domicile under oath, along with any other facts the court's jurisdiction depends on. Domicile is the first question the Rhode Island judge asks, and your answer sets the whole track.

Which City Or Town Probate Court Hears the Case

Venue follows the property, and the statutes say so four separate ways.

• A nonresident's will. Section 33-7-8 lets the duly executed will of any person who resided outside the state at death be proved before the Probate Court of any town where any property is situated upon which the will may operate.
• A will already proved elsewhere. Section 33-7-18 points the authenticated copy to any probate court in any town or city in this state where the testator had property, real or personal, upon which the will may operate.
• A foreign fiduciary reaching in. Section 33-18-26 sends the application to the Probate Court of any town where real estate of the decedent is located, or, where there is no Rhode Island real estate, where personal property sits, where a debtor resides, or where a corporation whose shares or registered bonds the decedent owned is located.
• A surviving spouse's set-off in an intestate estate. Section 33-1-6 names "the probate court of any city or town in which the real estate of the intestate is situated if not a resident of this state."

Land in two towns puts you in front of one judge and in front of two land evidence offices. Pick the court, then handle the recording separately, because those are different steps with different deadlines. The Rhode Island Probate Court directory lists all 39 city and town courts with the judge, the clerk, the address and the session days.

Counties do show up in one place, and it trips people. Section 33-22-11 sets newspaper notice by county circulation: once a week for at least two weeks, the first advertisement at least 14 days before the hearing, in a paper published in the county and distributed in the city or town, or one with general circulation in the county. The county is a circulation area for the newspaper. It is never the court.

Three Ways a Will Reaches a Rhode Island Probate Court

Rhode Island gives you a choice, and the routes do different work. The Department of State publishes the forms statewide, so the numbers are the same in Newport and in Woonsocket.

Record the foreign probate

This is the usual route when the will already cleared the home state court. Under § 33-7-18, the executor or any other person interested in a will finally proved and allowed in another state, territory, district or foreign country produces a copy of the will and of its probate, authenticated according to an act of Congress, and asks in writing that it be filed and recorded in the probate clerk's office. The court then assigns a time and place for a hearing. Section 33-7-19 gives notice the same way the court would for a will offered for probate, so anyone may appear and show cause. Form PC-1.6 Foreign Will carries the request.

Section 33-7-21 supplies the payoff. Once the copy is ordered filed and recorded, it has the same force and effect as if the will had been proved here in the first place, and the same court may grant letters testamentary to the named executor, or letters of administration with the will annexed to a person it deems fit, taking bond either way.

The multi-town trap sits in § 33-7-20. As to real estate in towns other than the one where the copy is filed and recorded, title does not pass for purposes of conveyance by the devisee until a certified copy is recorded in the land evidence records of each other city or town where real estate is situated. A beach cottage in Narragansett and a rental in Cranston means two recordings, not one. The same section relates title back to the death of the testator once the recording is done.

Ask for ancillary administration

Form PC-1.3 Ancillary Petition is the statewide filing when the Rhode Island file needs its own fiduciary rather than a recorded copy. Section 33-22-2 governs its contents: the title of the proceeding, the petitioner's name and address, the decedent's domicile under oath, the jurisdictional facts, and the names and post office addresses of the surviving spouse and heirs at law, with the named beneficiaries added where the petition asks to allow a will.

Prove the will here for the first time

Section 33-7-25 is the narrow door. Subsection (a) admits the will of a nondomiciliary to original probate in any Rhode Island Probate Court, in the same manner as any other will, where it may operate on property in the state and was executed the way Rhode Island requires of its own residents. Compare the signing rules in Rhode Island will requirements before you rely on it.

Subsection (b) shuts the door once the domicile court has acted. A will already admitted to probate or established at the testator's domicile cannot later go to original probate here except where the court is satisfied that ancillary probate would be unduly expensive, inconvenient or impossible, or where the testator directed in the will that it be offered for probate in Rhode Island, or where the domicile state's laws discriminate against Rhode Islanders as beneficiaries or fiduciaries. Subsection (c) blocks a will the domicile court refused, unless the ground for that refusal would not defeat the will of a Rhode Island testator.

One more section covers an unusual fact pattern. Section 33-7-22 handles a will that is operative without probate under the law of the domicile. An interested person produces the authenticated copy of the will and the official record, the court holds a hearing on notice, and where it finds the instrument ought to be allowed as the last will of the deceased, it orders the copy filed and recorded with the same effect as an original Rhode Island probate.

When There Is No Will

Administration follows the ordinary ladder. Section 33-8-8 grants it to the widow or surviving husband, or one or more of the next of kin, or to them jointly, so long as they are suitable and competent. Where they neglect to apply within 30 days of the death, prove unsuitable, or renounce, the court may grant administration to any suitable person on the petition of a party in interest.

Then comes the rule that surprises out-of-state families. Section 33-8-7 says no person who is not an inhabitant of this state shall be appointed administrator by reason of any right to the trust, unless other circumstances, in the opinion of the court, render the appointment proper. A daughter in Boston has no entitlement to the Rhode Island appointment. She can ask, and the judge decides. Line up a Rhode Island resident willing to serve, or be ready to explain why your appointment is proper, before the hearing rather than at it.

Who inherits the Rhode Island land still runs on Rhode Island law. Rhode Island intestate succession sets out the shares.

Every Out-Of-State Fiduciary Appoints a Rhode Island Agent

This is the step families skip, and the statute makes it a condition of acting at all.

Section 33-18-9 requires every executor, administrator or guardian appointed in, but residing out of, the state to appoint in writing an agent residing in Rhode Island before entering upon the duties of the trust, and to agree in that writing that service of legal process on the agent, or acknowledged by the agent, has the same effect as personal service inside the state. The writing carries the agent's address, gets filed with the clerk of the appointing Probate Court, and the notice of the fiduciary's appointment has to state the agent's name and address. Statewide form PC-3.5 Appointment of Agent is the instrument.

Section 33-18-14 closes the loop: service on that agent has the same legal effect as service on the principal. Nearby sections keep the arrangement current, covering an agent who dies, resigns or moves out of state, and § 33-18-13 makes neglect or refusal to comply with any of those requirements cause for removal. Pick someone who will still be at that address in two years.

What the Rhode Island Ancillary Case Costs

The court fee is statewide, and a local rule cannot move it. Section 33-22-29 tells each city and town Probate Court to adopt local administrative rules for session times, docketing and filing deadlines, while forbidding any such rule to "expand, contract or otherwise vary any specific provision of title 33." Session days are local. The tariff is not.

Section 33-22-21(a) carries two lines that matter here.

• The appointment line. One percent of the personal property of the decedent over which the court has jurisdiction, on every petition to appoint a custodian, administrator, guardian or conservator, or to probate a will. Floor $30, ceiling $1,500.
• The foreign fiduciary line. One percent on every petition of a foreign administrator, executor or guardian to transfer or sell real or personal estate, measured on the personal property of the decedent located in Rhode Island. Same $30 floor, same $1,500 ceiling.

Three consequences follow, and they cut in the executor's favor.

• Real estate never enters the base. The fee runs on personal property, and the § 33-9-1 inventory that measures it covers everything other than real property. A $700,000 house in Barrington adds nothing to the filing fee.
• The floor usually governs. Where the only Rhode Island asset is land, the Rhode Island personal property is zero, one percent of zero is zero, and the $30 floor applies. Section 42-8.1-20(b) then adds a $4 Historical Records Trust assessment on every instrument filed for recording under § 33-22-21, so the number a clerk quotes is $34. At the other end the ceiling reads $1,504, and it flattens at $150,000 of Rhode Island personal property.
• The fee is an estimate first. It is paid before the petition is filed, computed on the petitioner's own figures, and revised later with a further payment or a rebate if those figures turn out wrong. It also stands in lieu of later filing and recording fees in the same proceeding, apart from a short list: $5 for a certificate of appointment, $1.50 per page for copies and $3.00 to certify a probate document.

Ask the clerk which line they apply to your petition and what base they compute, since the answer depends on what the Rhode Island file actually holds.

Acting Without a Rhode Island Appointment

Sometimes a full Rhode Island file is more than the situation needs. Chapter 33-18 leaves three narrow openings.

A Rhode Island corporation may transfer securities. Section 33-18-24 lets a corporation organized under Rhode Island law, before it has actual notice that a Rhode Island application is pending, permit the duly appointed foreign executor, administrator or guardian of a nonresident to transfer shares and registered bonds standing in the decedent's name and to receive the dividends and interest. The same section lets that foreign fiduciary assign a mortgage debt, note and mortgage on Rhode Island real or personal property, provided an authenticated copy of the appointment and evidence that it has not been revoked are annexed to the assignment.

A Rhode Island debtor may pay. Section 33-18-25 gives any person or corporation here, again before actual notice of a pending Rhode Island application, a valid discharge for paying money or delivering personal property of a nonresident decedent to the fiduciary appointed and qualified in another state.

The court may authorize a foreign fiduciary who gets refused. Section 33-18-26 is the backstop when the corporation will not transfer or the debtor will not pay. Where no executor or administrator has been appointed in Rhode Island, the foreign fiduciary applies to the Probate Court of the right town and may be authorized to transfer the shares and bonds, take possession of the personal property and collect the debts. Four prerequisites gate it, and all four have to clear.

1. File in that court an authenticated copy of the will, if any, and of the appointment
2. Wait until six months after the foreign appointment
3. Give bond to the appointing probate court, unless sufficient bond is already in place
4. Advertise notice of the application in Rhode Island at least once each week for two successive weeks in a newspaper the court directs

A creditor can still stop it. The section refuses the authority where any creditor of the deceased shows the court valid objections, supported by a sworn statement of the claim and that it is justly due. None of these three openings moves real estate. Land needs a Rhode Island appointment.

The Rhode Island Estate Tax Reaches a Nonresident

Here is the piece that stops a closing.

Section 44-22-1.1(e) defines Rhode Island tax situs in two lines: real estate or tangible personal property with actual situs in Rhode Island, and intangible personal property where the decedent was a resident. Read them together and the rule for an out-of-state owner is plain. The Rhode Island house and the boat in the Wickford slip carry Rhode Island situs. The brokerage account does not.

Section 44-22-1.1(a)(4) sets the tax itself for deaths on or after January 1, 2015, with a Rhode Island credit of $64,400 indexed annually by the Consumer Price Index for all Urban Consumers and rounded up to the nearest $5. The statute prints no year figure, so the working number comes from the Division of Taxation, which publishes the resulting gross estate threshold each year: more than $1,838,056 for a death on or after January 1, 2026, and more than $1,802,431 for 2025.

Subsection (b) then apportions. Where the estate contains property whose tax situs is outside Rhode Island, the tax is multiplied by a fraction whose numerator is the gross estate excluding all property with a tax situs outside the state, and whose denominator is the gross estate, with no deductions considered. The RI-706 instructions turn that into one line: for a decedent not domiciled in Rhode Island, the numerator is the amount of Rhode Island real and tangible property, divided by the federal gross estate and carried to four decimal places.

Filing is broader than paying. The Division of Taxation says Form RI-706 must be completed and filed by the representative of every decedent with property or other assets in Rhode Island, and it explains why: a statutory lien sits on all Rhode Island real property and on interests in certain securities, and that lien cannot be discharged until the return is filed and the taxes and fees are paid in full. Form T-77 goes in with the return to request discharge of the lien on real property, and T-79 covers securities and interests in Rhode Island corporate entities.

One more filing belongs to the nonresident case alone. Section 44-23-39 tells the executor or administrator of a nonresident decedent to file with the Rhode Island Probate Court, within 18 months of the Rhode Island appointment, proof that all death taxes owed to the state of domicile and its political subdivisions have been paid or secured, or that none are due. A certificate from the domicile taxing body does the job, and the filing is excused where letters testamentary issued in the domicile state. Run the numbers with Rhode Island estate tax on out-of-state estates.

Selling the Rhode Island Property

Most ancillary files exist because someone wants to sell.

Section 33-19-3 puts that power in one place: the probate court which issued letters may grant authority to an executor or administrator to sell the real estate of a deceased person, for cash or on credit, on a petition describing the particular estate to be sold and setting forth the facts on which the petition is founded. Form PC-4.2 Petition for the Sale or Mortgage of Real Estate is the filing. That phrase decides the sequence for an out-of-state family: no Rhode Island letters, no license, no closing.

Three follow-on sections set the mechanics.

• Section 33-19-7 requires the fiduciary, before making the sale or mortgage, to give bond with surety satisfactory to the court that the proceeds will go to the purpose the sale was made for. Form PC-3.8 is that bond.
• Section 33-19-6 gives a license to sell one year from the date of the decree and a license to mortgage six months, though the conveyance itself may be executed and delivered after those periods.
• Section 33-19-15 lets the fiduciary execute the deed by virtue of that authority, and the conveyance makes as good a title to the buyer as the decedent could have made in life.

Clear the estate tax lien on the same calendar, because a buyer's title searcher will find it. Then read selling Rhode Island property from out of state.

Record the Certificate of Descent in Every City or Town

The Rhode Island file is not finished when the judge signs. Section 33-9-29 tells the executor or administrator to cause a certificate of descent to be recorded in the land evidence records of every city or town where real property of the decedent is situated, once that property is devised, distributed, set out, legally divided among the interested persons, or descends to the heirs or the spouse. The certificate is prima facie evidence of the facts stated in it so far as they affect the decedent's real estate. Statewide form PC-10.6 Certificate of Devise or Descent carries it, and PC-10.13 Affidavit of Real Property is the companion filing on the court side.

Two recordings run in parallel for a nonresident, and they answer different questions. The § 33-7-20 certified copy of the foreign will passes title for a devisee's conveyance in each other town. The § 33-9-29 certificate of descent puts the passing of the property on the land record. Do both, in every city or town where the decedent owned land.

Clocks That Bind a Rhode Island Ancillary Matter

The creditor clock is the one that reads differently from most states. It runs six months from the first publication of notice of the fiduciary's qualification, not from the death and not from the appointment date. Rhode Island creditor claims works that window, and the Rhode Island probate timeline stacks every date in order.

The Small Estate Route Is Closed To a Nonresident

Families reach for the cheap option first, and Rhode Island shuts this one three times over.

Section 33-24-1(a) opens voluntary informal administration only "if a resident of Rhode Island dies." The affiant must also be "a resident of this state." And the statement gets filed with the Probate Court "of the city or town in which the decedent resided," which points outside Rhode Island for an out-of-state decedent. The $15,000 ceiling reaches personal property alone, measured on the § 33-9-1 inventory and excluding tangible personal property, so it would never have carried a house anyway.

Ask the clerk in the city or town holding the property what a small Rhode Island file actually costs before you assume the ancillary route is expensive. At a $34 filing fee, the answer is usually less than a family fears.

Planning to Keep Rhode Island Out of It

An owner who lives elsewhere can spare the family this file, and the Rhode Island answers differ from what a plan drafted in another state assumes.

• Rhode Island has no transfer-on-death deed for real estate. Title 34 holds every Rhode Island chapter on property, and its published chapter list runs from chapter 34-1 through chapter 34-50 with no transfer-on-death or beneficiary-deed chapter in it. Form sellers publish Rhode Island beneficiary deed templates anyway. Recording one records an instrument no Rhode Island chapter authorizes.
• A deed to two people is a tenancy in common here. Section 34-3-1 deems every conveyance to two or more persons, "whether they be husband and wife or otherwise," a tenancy in common and not a joint tenancy, unless the instrument declares the tenancy joint, runs to those persons and the survivors or survivor of them, or manifestly shows that intent. Pull the recorded deed and read the words before you assume survivorship.
• A funded revocable trust moves the parcel out of both courts. Convey the Rhode Island property to the trustees during life and no second file opens at death.
• Ask a Rhode Island attorney about the § 34-4-2.1 life estate deed. It lets a grantor convey title while reserving a life estate plus the power to sell or mortgage without the remainder holders joining, which is the instrument some Rhode Island lawyers reach for where another state's lawyer would draft a beneficiary deed.
• Sell the Rhode Island property in life. Once it is cash in an out-of-state account, it is intangible property with no Rhode Island situs, and the home state estate handles it.

Frequently Asked Questions

When do I need ancillary probate in Rhode Island?

Whenever someone who lived in another state died owning Rhode Island real estate, or tangible property kept here, in their own name. The home state court cannot move a Rhode Island deed. R.I. Gen. Laws § 33-7-8 lets the will of a person who resided outside the state be proved before the Probate Court of any town where property the will operates on is situated, and § 33-22-2 names ancillary administration as its own kind of first filing.

Which Rhode Island Probate Court hears a nonresident's estate?

The court of a city or town where the property sits. Rhode Island has no county probate court, and § 8-9-9 gives each of the 39 municipal Probate Courts jurisdiction in the town or city where it is established. Section 33-7-8 keys venue for a nonresident's will to any town holding property the will operates on. Section 33-18-26 keys a foreign fiduciary's petition to the town where the real estate is located, or where the personal property, a debtor, or the corporation sits when there is no Rhode Island real estate.

What does a Rhode Island ancillary filing cost?

The statewide statute controls. R.I. Gen. Laws § 33-22-21(a) charges one percent on every petition of a foreign administrator, executor or guardian to transfer or sell real or personal estate, measured on the personal property of the decedent located in Rhode Island, never less than $30 and never more than $1,500. Section 42-8.1-20(b) adds a $4 records assessment, so the counter figures are $34 and $1,504. Real estate never enters the base.

Does a nonresident's estate have to file a Rhode Island estate tax return?

The Division of Taxation says Form RI-706 must be filed by the representative of every decedent with property or other assets in Rhode Island. Under R.I. Gen. Laws § 44-22-1.1(e), real estate and tangible personal property with actual situs here carry Rhode Island tax situs no matter where the owner lived, and § 44-22-1.1(b) then reduces the tax by the fraction of the gross estate that sits in Rhode Island. A lien rides on the real estate until the return is filed and the tax is paid.

Can an out-of-state executor sell the Rhode Island house?

Only after a Rhode Island Probate Court appoints a fiduciary and grants a license. Under R.I. Gen. Laws § 33-19-3, the court that issued letters may authorize the sale on a petition describing the particular estate to be sold and the facts behind it, using statewide form PC-4.2. Section 33-19-7 requires a bond covering the proceeds first, and § 33-19-6 gives the license one year to run.

Does the Rhode Island small estate route help a nonresident?

No. R.I. Gen. Laws § 33-24-1(a) opens voluntary informal administration only where a resident of Rhode Island dies, only where the affiant is also a resident of this state, and only in the Probate Court of the city or town where the decedent resided. All three conditions fail for an out-of-state decedent, and the route reaches personal property alone.

Does an out-of-state fiduciary have to do anything extra in Rhode Island?

Yes. R.I. Gen. Laws § 33-18-9 requires every executor, administrator or guardian appointed here but living out of state to appoint a Rhode Island resident agent in writing before entering upon the duties of the trust, file that writing with the probate clerk, and carry the agent's name and address in the notice of appointment. Statewide form PC-3.5 is the appointment, and § 33-18-14 makes service on the agent as good as service on the fiduciary.

Related Guides

• Rhode Island Probate Guide: how a Rhode Island probate case runs, from the first petition to the closing affidavit.
• Rhode Island Probate Courts: all 39 city and town Probate Courts, so you can find the one where the property sits.
• Rhode Island Estate Tax: the tax situs rules, Form RI-706 and the nine-month deadline.
• Selling Inherited Property in Rhode Island: the license, the bond and the closing, once the court has appointed you.
• Rhode Island Creditor Claims: the six-month window and what the fiduciary owes known creditors.
• Rhode Island Executor Duties: the whole job once letters issue.

Where This Fits in Your Plan

An ancillary matter is the Rhode Island chapter of an estate that lives somewhere else. Keep the two files talking. Let the home state lawyer lead the main estate, add a Rhode Island attorney for the filings your home state lawyer cannot make, appoint the § 33-18-9 resident agent before you act, file the RI-706 by the nine-month mark because the lien discharge depends on it, and record the certificate of descent in every city or town where the land sits. Multi-state estates turn on facts unique to each family, so confirm your dates with the clerk of the Probate Court in the city or town holding the property, or with a licensed Rhode Island attorney, before you file or sign anything.

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