Indiana route screening
This limit is set by the date of death, not by the current year. $100,000 applies to a death on or after 2022-07-01. The screening tool below will not return a figure until a date of death is entered, because measuring an older estate against today’s ceiling would give a confident wrong answer. Basis: Ind. Code 29-1-8-1(b)(1), which sets a different ceiling by the decedent's date of death.
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.
Sources reviewed August 9, 2026. Latest primary-source re-fetch September 15, 2026.
Threshold evidence and currency
Currency: This limit is date-dependent. The current published band is $100,000 for 2022-07-01; earlier dates use the bands below. No later session-law supersession is identified in the reviewed record.
Controlling citation: IC 29-1-8-1 — Indiana Code 2025.
Verbatim threshold text from that source:
one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000), for the estate of an individual who dies after June 30, 2022. (2) That forty-five (45) days have elapsed since the death of the decedent. (3) That no application or petition for the appointment of a personal representative is pending or has been granted in any jurisdiction.
The Indiana ceiling is not one timeless number. It is republished on a schedule, and the figure that governs an estate is the one in force on the day the person died — not the one in force today. Measuring an older estate against the current ceiling can report that it qualifies when the operative limit was lower, so the bands are set out in full below.
| Date of death | Ceiling |
|---|---|
| Deaths on or after July 1, 2022 | $100,000 |
| Deaths from July 1, 2006 through June 30, 2022 | $50,000 |
| Deaths from January 1, 1900 through June 30, 2006 | $25,000 |
How the figure is set: Ind. Code 29-1-8-1(b)(1), which sets a different ceiling by the decedent's date of death.
For a death before July 1, 2006 the ceiling was $25,000.
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 reviewed route is limited to personal probate property. A house or other real property is not transferred through this screen, even when the personal-property total is below $100,000. Open the deed and the receiving court’s real-property instructions before assuming the simplified procedure resolves the whole estate.
The reviewed value basis subtracts enforceable liens and encumbrances. Enter the asset value and the lien separately. An unsecured bill is not a lien against an asset unless this state separately requires it as an input.
The reviewed route requires 45 days after death before the affidavit or petition can be used. That is a minimum timing condition, not a promise that the institution or court completes the transfer on that day.
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.
Indiana probate jurisdiction is exercised by the Circuit or Superior Court identified for the county; use the judiciary directory.
If the state publishes no statewide form, that is a finding—not a missing link. Contact the Circuit/Superior Court with probate jurisdiction 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.
Indiana eligibility map
The Indiana 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 Indiana answer | Carry into the case |
|---|---|---|
| What route is being screened? | Small-estate affidavit (dispensing with administration) | Confirm that the will, prior appointment, family facts, and asset titles fit this route. |
| What property and basis count? | personal probate property only; net of enforceable liens and encumbrances. | Keep real property, liens, beneficiary transfers, and survivorship transfers classified separately. |
| What is the amount screen? | $100,000 for deaths on or after July 1, 2022 | Use the counted property, not a bank-balance shortcut. |
| What is the time or deadline record? | 45 days after death; 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. | Keep the event that starts each clock with the date; do not combine separate periods into one number. |
| What does the cost record establish? | $177 is the recorded statewide amount. | Ask the Circuit/Superior Court with probate jurisdiction about local surcharges, copies, publication, bond, and later filings. |
| What does compensation use? | The will controls unless renounced; otherwise the court allows compensation it deems just and reasonable. Additional compensation may be allowed for attorney services and services not required of a personal representative. The relevant base is the estate accounting. | 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 | $100,000 for deaths on or after July 1, 2022 |
| Property scope | personal probate property only |
| Value basis | net of enforceable liens and encumbrances |
| Waiting period | 45 days after death |
| Required extra facts | None listed in the registry |
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 Indiana descriptions adjacent to this page\'s main question; they are not a substitute for the source quotations or the receiving court\'s instructions.
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.
The will controls unless renounced; otherwise the court allows compensation it deems just and reasonable. Additional compensation may be allowed for attorney services and services not required of a personal representative.
The will controls unless renounced; otherwise the court allows compensation it deems just and reasonable. Additional compensation may be allowed for attorney services and services not required of a personal representative. The relevant base is the estate accounting.
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.
Court-material note: Indiana probate jurisdiction is exercised by the Circuit or Superior Court identified for the county; use the judiciary directory.
Arithmetic illustration
The recorded Indiana ceiling is $100,000 for deaths on or after July 1, 2022, and it is tested against personal probate property only, on a basis this site records as net of enforceable liens and encumbrances. Counted that way, $75,000 sits below the Indiana figure and $125,000 sits above it. Both are comparisons to a published number rather than legal outcomes: two estates holding the same total can land on opposite sides of this line, because what Indiana counts and how it values it are decided before the comparison is made.
| Illustrative counted amount | Comparison to the Indiana ceiling | What it does not decide |
|---|---|---|
| $75,000 | Below $100,000 for deaths on or after July 1, 2022 | Title, liens, waiting period, appointment, or creditor duties |
| $125,000 | Above $100,000 for deaths on or after July 1, 2022 | Whether another statutory route or court process applies |
Next evidence to collect
Official material
Indiana probate jurisdiction is exercised by the Circuit or Superior Court identified for the county; use the judiciary 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: one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000), for the estate of an individual who dies after June 30, 2022. (2) That forty-five (45) days have elapsed since the death of the decedent. (3) That no application or petition for the appointment of a personal representative is pending or has been granted in any jurisdiction.