Georgia route screening
No threshold was established from a primary source in this review. The procedure may be structural, indexed, locally published, or unavailable in the accepted source record; this page does not infer a dollar figure.
Georgia has no conventional dollar-threshold small-estate affidavit. An heir petitions the Probate Court for no administration necessary when the decedent died intestate, no administration exists, heirs agree on division, and the estate owes no debts or creditors consent/receive service and do not object. Real and personal property can be included; eligibility is structural, not monetary.
Sources reviewed August 9, 2026. Latest primary-source re-fetch September 15, 2026.
Threshold evidence and currency
Currency: No threshold figure is published, so there is no current numeric figure or superseding figure to report. The reason and the next primary-source lane are stated below.
Threshold source status: No accepted primary-source quotation sets a numeric threshold for this page.
Why no figure is published: Inapplicable: Georgia sets no dollar threshold for this procedure. Eligibility is structural—intestacy, no prior administration, heir agreement, and debt/creditor conditions.
Next primary-source lane: O.C.G.A. §§53-2-40 through 53-2-42 and GPCSF 9
The headline limit is not a count of everything the person owned. It is a test of the property and deductions named by this procedure. Classify title and beneficiary status first; property that transfers by a valid survivorship right, beneficiary designation, or funded trust follows its own transfer path.
This screen counts the probate estate within the statute’s stated scope, not merely cash accounts. Solely owned real property can therefore affect the amount test. That does not necessarily mean the same simplified procedure transfers the house; counting scope and transfer authority are separate questions.
The reviewed value basis is gross for this route. The tool does not subtract a mortgage or other lien from the amount test unless the cited rule says to do so.
No waiting-period number is published because it has not been verified to the same primary-source standard as the threshold.
The statute requires facts the asset list cannot derive:
Leaving one blank keeps the result undecided. The calculator never substitutes zero for a legal input nobody supplied.
Assemble the death date, will status, asset titles, beneficiary confirmations, values, enforceable liens, family facts, and any prior court filing before signing anything. Then use the court publisher’s current artifact for the selected route.
Georgia publishes a statewide standard no-administration petition and an official Probate Court directory.
If the state publishes no statewide form, that is a finding—not a missing link. Contact the Probate Court or clerk in the proper county for its packet and current filing instructions rather than borrowing an unofficial form from another county.
This is general information, not legal, tax, or financial advice, and it does not create an attorney-client relationship. Probate law varies by state and county and changes over time. Verify the current rule with the court or a licensed attorney in the relevant state.
Georgia eligibility map
The Georgia threshold is one screen, not a complete legal conclusion. This map pairs the recorded ceiling with the property scope, deductions, date, and court artifact that have to be checked before relying on a likely-qualifies result.
| Question | Recorded Georgia answer | Carry into the case |
|---|---|---|
| What route is being screened? | Petition for Order Declaring No Administration Necessary | Confirm that the will, prior appointment, family facts, and asset titles fit this route. |
| What property and basis count? | probate property within the rule's stated scope; gross value for this route. | Keep real property, liens, beneficiary transfers, and survivorship transfers classified separately. |
| What is the amount screen? | No numeric ceiling verified | Establish unsecured debt before treating the screen as decided. |
| What is the time or deadline record? | No waiting-period number verified; No deadline is recorded here: Georgia has multiple non-equivalent events, so no single days value is honest. The representative must initiate publication within 60 days after qualification and publish weekly for four weeks. A creditor notifying more than three months after the last publication loses equal participation against earlier distributions and cannot hold the representative liable, but late claims may still be paid when sufficient assets remain and higher-priority claims are paid. The representative also receives a six-month administration/payment protection. No distinct actual-notice deadline or ultimate repose period was verified. | Keep the event that starts each clock with the date; do not combine separate periods into one number. |
| What does the cost record establish? | $190 is the recorded statewide amount. | Ask the Probate Court about local surcharges, copies, publication, bond, and later filings. |
| What does compensation use? | Absent controlling will/agreement terms, the statutory defaults are 2.5% of sums received and 2.5% of sums paid out, plus 10% of qualifying interest. Delivery of property in kind may receive reasonable compensation capped at 3% of appraised/fair value, and other statutory categories may apply. HB 327 (2025) updated subsection (a) agreement language without restating the subsection (b) percentages. The relevant base is money received and paid out during administration. | Keep the will, task log, receipts, and accounting base together; extraordinary work is separate. |
Eligibility inputs
A threshold is useful only when the amount is measured the way the source describes. Keep this table with the asset worksheet so an empty or misclassified field cannot look like a confirmed qualification.
| Input | Registry record |
|---|---|
| Threshold | No numeric ceiling verified |
| Property scope | probate property within the rule's stated scope |
| Value basis | gross value for this route |
| Waiting period | No waiting-period number verified |
| Required extra facts | unsecured debt |
Case-file context
A route answer is easier to use when the facts that can change it stay in the same record. These are the reviewed Georgia descriptions adjacent to this page\'s main question; they are not a substitute for the source quotations or the receiving court\'s instructions.
Effective January 1, 2025, a Title 53 estate petition costs $190 in total: a $175 base fee (2024 SB 232 §1, amending O.C.G.A. §15-9-60(e)) plus a mandatory $15 civil filing fee that SB 232 §3 directs the clerk to collect "[i]n addition to all other legal costs ... in each civil action filed in the probate court", charged once per decedent proceeding on the listed estate petitions. Service, publication and any other statutory charges are extra.
$190 is the recorded statewide amount.
Absent controlling will/agreement terms, the statutory defaults are 2.5% of sums received and 2.5% of sums paid out, plus 10% of qualifying interest. Delivery of property in kind may receive reasonable compensation capped at 3% of appraised/fair value, and other statutory categories may apply. HB 327 (2025) updated subsection (a) agreement language without restating the subsection (b) percentages.
Absent controlling will/agreement terms, the statutory defaults are 2.5% of sums received and 2.5% of sums paid out, plus 10% of qualifying interest. Delivery of property in kind may receive reasonable compensation capped at 3% of appraised/fair value, and other statutory categories may apply. HB 327 (2025) updated subsection (a) agreement language without restating the subsection (b) percentages. The relevant base is money received and paid out during administration.
No deadline is recorded here: Georgia has multiple non-equivalent events, so no single days value is honest. The representative must initiate publication within 60 days after qualification and publish weekly for four weeks. A creditor notifying more than three months after the last publication loses equal participation against earlier distributions and cannot hold the representative liable, but late claims may still be paid when sufficient assets remain and higher-priority claims are paid. The representative also receives a six-month administration/payment protection. No distinct actual-notice deadline or ultimate repose period was verified.
Court-material note: Georgia publishes a statewide standard no-administration petition and an official Probate Court directory.
This registry does not establish a numeric Georgia ceiling from an accepted primary source. The safe next step is to follow the reason and source lane on this page, then ask the Probate Court for the current rule rather than importing a neighboring state\'s amount.
Next evidence to collect
Official material
Georgia publishes a statewide standard no-administration petition and an official Probate Court directory.
Source trail
Each legal input links to the government source reviewed for this page. Source text can change; confirm the current rule before acting.
Reviewed source note: 53-2-40. (a) When an individual has died intestate and there has been no administration in this state, any heir of the decedent may file a petition praying for an order that no administration is necessary. The petition shall be filed in the probate court of the county of the domicile of the Page 536 decedent, if the decedent was domiciled in this state, or in the county in which real property is located, if the decedent was not domiciled in this state.