Obtain the form: Visit your local probate court or their website to obtain the small estate affidavit form. Verify eligibility: Ensure the estate's value falls within your state's threshold.

Completing a small estate affidavit in Colorado allows heirs to claim a deceased person’s assets without the need for a lengthy probate procedure. This is available for many Colorado estates ...

When you probate a will, it is easy for the executor to deposit those checks. But with a Small Estate Affidavit, it can be either extremely difficult or impossible to cash the checks.

Probate lawyer Craig Hopper told members of the Senate State Affairs Committee on March 9 that he already identified a potential panel of people who might collaborate to create “good forms” if ...

A do-it-yourself form, newly created by the Legislature, will allow property owners to transfer land and buildings to their heirs without going through probate court — saving legal fees that ...

If SB 512 passes the senate, then the high court would have to generate: a small-estate affidavit; a form to probate a will; and forms to create wills for married and unmarried people, both with ...