A route answer is easier to use when the facts that can change it stay in the same record. These are the reviewed Indiana descriptions adjacent to this page\'s main question; they are not a substitute for the source quotations or the receiving court\'s instructions.
Route context
Indiana dispenses with administration for qualifying personal-property estates by affidavit after 45 days; county Circuit or Superior Courts exercise probate jurisdiction.
After 45 days, a distributee may present an affidavit for personal property when the gross probate estate, LESS liens, encumbrances, funeral expenses, and administration expenses, does not exceed $100,000 for deaths after June 30, 2022, and no personal-representative appointment is pending or granted. Because this calculator does not collect the funeral and administration expenses that Indiana subtracts before applying the $100,000 test, any eligibility result shown here is provisional and must be confirmed against the estate's actual deductible expenses.
Cost context
The statutory probate costs fee is $120. The Indiana Supreme Court’s current-through-2026 manual totals statewide probate filing fees at $177; the total is $205 only if the office collects the optional $28 sheriff service fee.
$177 is the recorded statewide amount.
Deadline context
Multiple distinct deadlines prevent an honest single days value. Ordinary claims are generally filed within three months after first publication, while claims barrable under subsection (a) face a nine-month-from-death outer bar, subject to statutory exceptions including specified governmental, lien, and tort claims. No separate actual-notice or appointment deadline was verified in this section.
- This state's counted value depends on liens and encumbrances, which this calculator does not collect, so treat any eligibility result as provisional.
- This state's counted value depends on funeral expenses, which this calculator does not collect, so treat any eligibility result as provisional.
- This state's counted value depends on administration expenses, which this calculator does not collect, so treat any eligibility result as provisional.
- Indiana measures eligibility on the gross probate estate LESS liens, encumbrances, funeral expenses and administration expenses (Ind. Code § 29-1-8-1). This calculator does not collect the funeral or administration expense figures, so it cannot compute the exact net value the $100,000 test applies to - treat any eligibility result as provisional.
- No separate creditor actual-notice or appointment-trigger deadline was verified; statutory exceptions prevent collapsing claims into one deadline.