Nevada timeline
The simplified route starts 30 days after death.
That clock is one condition among several, and it is not the whole estate timeline. The deadlines that carry the most risk are creditor deadlines, and in Nevada they are not verified to this site’s standard, so none is published below.
Sources reviewed August 7, 2026. Latest primary-source re-fetch September 15, 2026.
The set aside without administration route requires 30 days to elapse from the date of death. This is a precondition: the affidavit or petition cannot be presented before it runs, regardless of how straightforward the estate is.
(a) If the value of a decedent's estate does not exceed $150,000, the estate may be set aside without administration by the order of the court; orNRS 146.070 and 146.080 — Nevada Legislature; Chapter revised 4/15/2026, current through 2025 session.
The creditor-notice and claim-bar deadlines have not been verified to this site's primary-source standard, so no number is published.
These are the deadlines with the largest consequences on this page. Publishing a notice starts a period after which most claims are barred; missing a required notice can extend an estate’s exposure and, in some circumstances, the personal exposure of the person administering it. A number that is wrong by a few days is materially worse than no number at all, which is why none is given.
Read this: NRS ch. 147 (claims against estates). The probate clerk in the county of filing can also state the local practice, which sometimes differs from the bare statutory minimum.
Until then, the safe default is the one every source agrees on: do not distribute property, and do not pay non-priority debts, before the claim position is settled.
Nevada is not a Uniform Probate Code state and its claims clock is set in days rather than months. Under NRS 147.040(1) a person with a claim against the decedent must file it with the clerk within ninety days after the mailing, for those required to be mailed, or ninety days after the first publication of the notice to creditors under NRS 155.020.
A creditor who receives notice by mail under NRS 155.020(5) gets a different calculation: thirty days after the mailing or ninety days after first publication, whichever is later. As in Arizona, the later-of construction means a late letter cannot cut a creditor’s time below the statutory minimum.
The ninety-day period is reduced to sixty days where summary administration is granted under NRS chapter 145. Choosing the faster procedure therefore compresses the creditor window as well as the court process, which is a real advantage of summary administration and not merely an administrative one.
Nevada then leaves a door open that the nonclaim states close. Under NRS 147.040(3) a late claim is forever barred — but if the claimant shows by affidavit or other proof satisfying the court that they had neither notice under NRS 155.020 nor actual notice of the administration, the claim may be filed at any time before the final account is filed. There is no fixed outer date measured from death at all; the practical cut-off is the filing of the final account, which makes diligent notice the representative’s protection rather than the calendar.
Source: NRS 147.040, read from the enacting state’s own published code on 2026-09-17. Quoted wording is the statute’s; the surrounding explanation is this site’s reading of it and is not legal advice.
Nevada timeline decision map
The Nevada waiting period is only one condition. Use this map to separate the route clock from creditor deadlines, asset scope, court costs, and the documents needed to move from screening to filing.
| Question | Recorded Nevada answer | Carry into the case |
|---|---|---|
| What route is being screened? | Set aside without administration | 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; net of enforceable liens and encumbrances. | Keep real property, liens, beneficiary transfers, and survivorship transfers classified separately. |
| What is the amount screen? | $150,000 | Use the counted property, not a bank-balance shortcut. |
| What is the time or deadline record? | 30 days after death; No deadline is recorded here: The creditor-notice and claim-bar deadlines have not been verified to this site's primary-source standard, so no number is published. | Keep the event that starts each clock with the date; do not combine separate periods into one number. |
| What does the cost record establish? | 2 published schedules; the proceeding and value basis control the total. | Ask the District Court about local surcharges, copies, publication, bond, and later filings. |
| What does compensation use? | Nevada applies a percentage schedule to the estate accounted for, generally net of liens and encumbrances. The relevant base is probate property after enforceable liens. | Keep the will, task log, receipts, and accounting base together; extraordinary work is separate. |
Clock ledger
The creditor-notice and claim-bar deadlines have not been verified to this site's primary-source standard, so no number is published. Read NRS ch. 147 (claims against estates) and ask the District Court which notice and claim rules apply.
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 Nevada descriptions adjacent to this page\'s main question; they are not a substitute for the source quotations or the receiving court\'s instructions.
Nevada offers both a court set-aside procedure and a narrower affidavit procedure, each with its own waiting period.
A court may set aside an estate not exceeding $150,000 after 30 days, measured at fair market value less enforceable liens and encumbrances as of the date of death. The separate affidavit route usually has a lower limit and excludes Nevada real property.
The NRS 19.013 base petition fee is $72 when the stated estate value exceeds $2,500, and nothing at $2,500 or less. A petition for letters testamentary or letters of administration also carries a separate additional fee under NRS 19.0302(1)(c): nothing at $20,000 or less, $99 above $20,000 and below $300,000, and $352 at $300,000 or more.
2 published schedules; the proceeding and value basis control the total.
Nevada applies a percentage schedule to the estate accounted for, generally net of liens and encumbrances.
Nevada applies a percentage schedule to the estate accounted for, generally net of liens and encumbrances. The relevant base is probate property after enforceable liens.
Court-material note: Nevada runs two separate small-estate tracks. The published affidavit form belongs to the affidavit track, not to the $150,000 court set-aside track that this page models.
Arithmetic illustration
The recorded Nevada ceiling is $150,000, and it is tested against probate property within the rule's stated scope, on a basis this site records as net of enforceable liens and encumbrances. Counted that way, $112,500 sits below the Nevada figure and $187,500 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 Nevada counts and how it values it are decided before the comparison is made.
| Illustrative counted amount | Comparison to the Nevada ceiling | What it does not decide |
|---|---|---|
| $112,500 | Below $150,000 | Title, liens, waiting period, appointment, or creditor duties |
| $187,500 | Above $150,000 | Whether another statutory route or court process applies |
Next evidence to collect
Official material
Nevada runs two separate small-estate tracks. The published affidavit form belongs to the affidavit track, not to the $150,000 court set-aside track that this page models.
Source trail
The order in which an estate is actually worked — secure property, confirm title and beneficiary designations, identify the court route, notify and account, then close — is the same everywhere and carries no citation, so it is set out once rather than repeated on each state’s page. Read it inthe executor’s first week, and seehow long probate takes for how the phases stretch in practice.
What is jurisdiction-specific is above: the Nevada periods, the event each one runs from, and the source each was read in.
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.