Utah Probate and Estate Forms

Important Notes

• -Utah probate is filed in the DISTRICT COURT in all 29 counties. There is no separate probate court, no probate division and no county to county split. Utah Code 75-1-302 gives the court jurisdiction over estates of decedents and Utah Code 78A-5-102(1) gives the district court original jurisdiction in all civil matters. Filing is with the clerk of the district court.
• -Venue is the district court of the county where the decedent lived at death, or the county where the decedent owned property (Utah Code 75-3-201).
• -If you are filing in Utah County you must file at the Provo courthouse. The American Fork district courthouse closed on December 31, 2024 and its matters moved to Provo, although the state court directory still lists an address and phone for it.
• -The civil petition fee is $375 statewide (Utah Code 78A-2-301(1)(a)). Utah has no per county probate filing fee and no reduced small estate fee. Utah Code 78A-2-301(2) says there is no fee for services or filings not listed in that section.
• -The $15, $30, $50, $90 and $175 ladder in Utah Code 78A-2-301(1)(r) is the fee for filing an ACCOUNTING, keyed to the value of the estate. It is not the fee to open probate. Its bands are upper inclusive: an estate valued at exactly $75,000 or less but more than $50,000 pays $30.
• -A small estate affidavit is not filed with the court, so it costs nothing. Summary administration under Utah Code 75-3-1203 is a way of CLOSING an estate cheaply rather than opening one cheaply, so the $375 has already been paid by the time it applies.
• -Utah publishes NO statewide form for the inventory, the accounting, the closing statement or any formal or contested pleading. Those documents are drafted to the statute. A page or a clerk that names a form number for a Utah inventory is describing another state.
• -Two of these forms, 1158XX and 1302GE, are served by the courts' form service at apps.utcourts.gov and their addresses carry no .pdf extension. Both returned a real PDF when fetched on 2026-08-28.
• -The Utah State Courts self-help pages cite the Utah Code through a search box address on legacy.utcourts.gov that returns no statutory text. Read the statute at le.utah.gov instead.
• -Three official Utah sources describe the small estate ceiling differently. The statute says the entire estate less liens and encumbrances 'does not exceed' $100,000 and disqualifies nothing. The courts' small estates page says the entire value is 'under' $100,000 and adds 'there is no real property'. The courts' informal probate page says probate is required if the estate includes real property of any value, or if assets other than land and not counting cars are worth more than $100,000 net. Follow the statute, and expect a bank or a clerk to apply the courts' wording.