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Every source behind the Michigan guide

9 primary records, quoted verbatim and checked against 51 named presence or absence conditions that must pass against the live government text. Open the record, read the words the publishing body actually used, and confirm the current rule for yourself.

Last full re-fetch September 15, 2026

What each source establishes

The Michigan guide rests on the source-backed rules this site can verify for the state: which simplified procedure exists and what it limits, what the court charges, how the person administering the estate may be paid, and the statutory creditor-deadline clocks the official text states.Every published rule below is quoted in the publisher’s own words rather than summarised.

Simplified-procedure rule

MCL 700.3982

Michigan Legislature · MCL Complete Through PA 91 of 2026 · Verified August 9, 2026

On a showing of evidence, satisfactory to the court, of payment of the expenses for the decedent's funeral and burial and if the balance of a decedent's gross estate consists of property of the value of $50,000.00 or less, the court may order that the property be turned over to the surviving spouse or, if there is not a spouse, to the decedent's heirs.

What this means: The displayed $50,000 is a statutory base amount, not the current calendar-year ceiling; MCL 700.1210 requires an annual published adjustment.

What was published from this source

  • MI MCL 700.3982

Conditions checked against the live text

Each condition below must be found in the page as the publisher currently serves it. If any one of them stops matching, the build fails and the figure is withheld rather than published from memory.

  • base amount and funeral deduction
  • real-property secured-debt deduction
  • adjustment cross-reference
  • section identity
  • currentness
  • section identity

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Simplified-procedure rule

MCL 700.3983

Michigan Legislature · MCL Complete Through PA 91 of 2026 · Verified August 9, 2026

After 28 days after a decedent's death, a person indebted to the decedent or having possession of tangible personal property or an instrument evidencing a debt, obligation, stock, or chose in action belonging to the decedent shall pay the indebtedness or deliver the tangible personal property or the instrument to a person claiming to be the decedent's successor

What this means: The displayed $50,000 is adjusted under MCL 700.1210; this dossier does not publish it as the current threshold.

What was published from this source

  • MI MCL 700.3983

Conditions checked against the live text

Each condition below must be found in the page as the publisher currently serves it. If any one of them stops matching, the build fails and the figure is withheld rather than published from memory.

  • waiting period
  • scope and base amount
  • appointment disqualifier
  • section identity
  • currentness
  • section identity

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Threshold indexing rule

MCL 700.1210

Michigan Legislature · MCL Complete Through PA 91 of 2026 · Verified August 9, 2026

Beginning January 1, 2024, those specific dollar amounts must be multiplied by the 2023 cost-of-living adjustment factor for the calendar year in which the decedent dies.

What was published from this source

  • MI MCL 700.1210

Conditions checked against the live text

Each condition below must be found in the page as the publisher currently serves it. If any one of them stops matching, the build fails and the figure is withheld rather than published from memory.

  • annual adjustment rule
  • treasury publication and rounding
  • section identity
  • currentness
  • section identity

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Court cost rule

MCL 600.880

Michigan Legislature · MCL Complete Through PA 91 of 2026 · Verified August 9, 2026

Except as otherwise provided in this section and section 880a, at the time of commencing a civil action or proceeding in the probate court, the party commencing the civil action or proceeding shall pay a $150.00 filing fee to the probate court register.

What was published from this source

  • MI MCL 600.880

Conditions checked against the live text

Each condition below must be found in the page as the publisher currently serves it. If any one of them stops matching, the build fails and the figure is withheld rather than published from memory.

  • general opening fee
  • 3982 opening fee
  • section identity
  • currentness
  • section identity

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Court cost rule

MCL 600.871

Michigan Legislature · MCL Complete Through PA 91 of 2026 · Verified August 9, 2026

In all decedents' estates in which proceedings are instituted for probate, the probate court shall charge and collect the following fees as an expense of administration on the value of all assets, as of the date of death of the decedent

What was published from this source

  • MI MCL 600.871

Conditions checked against the live text

Each condition below must be found in the page as the publisher currently serves it. If any one of them stops matching, the build fails and the figure is withheld rather than published from memory.

  • inventory fee basis
  • inventory fee schedule identity
  • encumbered realty deduction
  • payment timing
  • section identity
  • currentness
  • section identity

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Executor compensation rule

MCL 700.3719

Michigan Legislature · MCL Complete Through PA 91 of 2026 · Verified August 9, 2026

A personal representative is entitled to reasonable compensation for services performed. A personal representative may pay the personal representative's own compensation periodically as earned without prior court approval.

What was published from this source

  • MI MCL 700.3719

Conditions checked against the live text

Each condition below must be found in the page as the publisher currently serves it. If any one of them stops matching, the build fails and the figure is withheld rather than published from memory.

  • reasonable compensation
  • will and contract treatment
  • section identity
  • currentness
  • section identity

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Creditor deadline rule

MCL 700.3801

Michigan Legislature · MCL Complete Through PA 91 of 2026 · Verified August 9, 2026

upon appointment a personal representative shall publish, and a special personal representative may publish, a notice as provided by supreme court rule notifying estate creditors to present their claims within 4 months after the date of the notice's publication or be forever barred.

What was published from this source

  • MI MCL 700.3801

Conditions checked against the live text

Each condition below must be found in the page as the publisher currently serves it. If any one of them stops matching, the build fails and the figure is withheld rather than published from memory.

  • publication trigger
  • known creditor notice timing
  • section identity
  • currentness
  • section identity

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Creditor deadline rule

MCL 700.3803

Michigan Legislature · MCL Complete Through PA 91 of 2026 · Verified August 9, 2026

If the notice requirements of section 3801 or 7608 have not been met, within 3 years after the decedent's death.

What was published from this source

  • MI MCL 700.3803

Conditions checked against the live text

Each condition below must be found in the page as the publisher currently serves it. If any one of them stops matching, the build fails and the figure is withheld rather than published from memory.

  • publication deadline
  • known creditor deadline
  • outer limit without notice
  • section identity
  • currentness
  • section identity

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Simplified-procedure rule

Mich. Dep't of Treasury, EPIC Cost-of-Living Adjustments (MCL 700.1210), Table B, calendar year 2025 (certified Jan. 31, 2025)

Michigan Department of Treasury (State Treasurer) · January 31, 2025 · Verified August 9, 2026

the 2023 cost-of-living adjustment factor for the 2025 calendar year is 1.029

What this means: This is the official annual Treasury publication that MCL 700.1210(3) requires. Table B lists the operative adjusted dollar amounts for MCL 700.3982(1)&(2) and MCL 700.3983 as $51,000 for decedents dying in calendar year 2025 (base $50,000 as amended by 2024 PA 1, × the 2023 cost-of-living adjustment factor of 1.029, rounded to the nearest $1,000). Reached only after the Treasury search endpoint's HTTP 403 was bypassed by locating the notice PDF through the Treasury 'reports-archive/archived-economic-reports/estates' page.

What was published from this source

  • MI Mich. Dep't of Treasury, EPIC Cost-of-Living Adjustments (MCL 700.1210), Table B, calendar year 2025 (certified Jan. 31, 2025)

Conditions checked against the live text

Each condition below must be found in the page as the publisher currently serves it. If any one of them stops matching, the build fails and the figure is withheld rather than published from memory.

  • 2025 cola factor
  • table B operative $51,000 for 3982/3983
  • 3982/3983 base $50,000 under 2024 PA 1
  • section identity
  • currentness
  • section identity

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Statutes read in full for Michigan

These are the Michigan provisions read end to end on the enacting state’s own site, rather than summarised from a secondary source. The middle column is what reading each one actually established for Michigan — not a restatement of the topic — and the last column records the date the wording was read, so a later amendment can be spotted by comparing dates.

CitationWhat reading it establishedRead on
MCL § 700.3803 (EPIC), eff. Apr. 1, 2000, am. 2009 Act 46, eff. Apr. 1, 2010Michigan measures its four months from publication, and what the representative knew decides who gets longer — creditor deadline note2026-09-17

Michigan source decision map

How the Michigan records fit together

The source record is most useful when each citation has a job. This map links the Michigan procedure, cost, compensation, and deadline records to the decision each one can and cannot answer.

QuestionRecorded Michigan answerCarry into the case
What route is being screened?Collection of personal property by sworn statementConfirm 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?$51,000 for deaths from January 1, 2025 through December 31, 2025Use the counted property, not a bank-balance shortcut.
What is the time or deadline record?28 days after death; Michigan has distinct deadlines: publication, later notice to known creditors, and a three-year death-based outer bar when statutory notice was not given, plus separate post-death claim rules. One days value would misstate the framework.Keep the event that starts each clock with the date; do not combine separate periods into one number.
What does the cost record establish?$150 is the recorded statewide amount.Ask the Probate Court about local surcharges, copies, publication, bond, and later filings.
What does compensation use?Michigan uses reasonable compensation rather than a percentage schedule. A will provision may be renounced before qualifying when no compensation contract exists; a written compensation contract with the decedent binds the representative. The relevant base is the estate accounting.Keep the will, task log, receipts, and accounting base together; extraordinary work is separate.

Decision boundary

What the Michigan source set does not silently decide

The Michigan records establish the rules listed above, but they do not turn a source citation into advice about title, family priority, tax filing, contested proceedings, or the exact clerk practice in every county. Those questions stay with the official court or a qualified adviser. The useful next step is to match the question to the citation rather than treating the longest quote as the answer to every estate problem.

Arithmetic illustration

See the Michigan amount screen without mistaking it for a result

The recorded Michigan ceiling is $51,000 for deaths from January 1, 2025 through December 31, 2025, 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, $38,300 sits below the Michigan figure and $63,800 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 Michigan counts and how it values it are decided before the comparison is made.

Illustrative counted amountComparison to the Michigan ceilingWhat it does not decide
$38,300Below $51,000 for deaths from January 1, 2025 through December 31, 2025Title, liens, waiting period, appointment, or creditor duties
$63,800Above $51,000 for deaths from January 1, 2025 through December 31, 2025Whether another statutory route or court process applies

Next evidence to collect

Open the quoted record for the row you rely on and check the publisher's current text before filing.

  1. Record the date of death, the county, and the exact proceeding or affidavit being considered.
  2. Classify each asset by title, beneficiary, trust, real-property status, and the value basis shown above.
  3. Open the official court material below and keep its form or schedule with the estate record.
  4. Do not distribute property until the route, creditor position, and required approvals are resolved.

Official material

Michigan publishes statewide SCAO forms for both small-estate routes. The forms repeat that the statutory base is adjusted, but do not print an operative calendar-year ceiling.

No stable HTTP-200 human-readable statewide Probate Court directory page was located; direct court-form URLs were verified.

Source trail

Records used by this Michigan map

What Michigan courts publish

The statutes on this page state the rule. These are the documents the court itself publishes. Every link is probed before release, and any link that stops resolving fails the build rather than staying on the page.

Limits on court material

  • Michigan publishes statewide SCAO forms for both small-estate routes. The forms repeat that the statutory base is adjusted, but do not print an operative calendar-year ceiling.
  • No stable HTTP-200 human-readable statewide Probate Court directory page was located; direct court-form URLs were verified.

Checking these Michigan records against the publishers

Every citation above links to the body that publishes it, and every quoted sentence is reproduced exactly, so a text search on the publisher’s own page should land on it. Where the publisher’s current wording differs from what is recorded here, the publisher governs and this page is wrong; naming the citation and the language you see maps the difference onto a specific condition rather than a general complaint. The full procedure, including how a source qualifies in the first place and what disqualifies one, is set out once on the methodology page instead of being restated on each of the254 state records.

These records cover the cost and route questions this site answers for Michigan. They do not cover intestate succession shares, spousal and family allowances, creditor priority, tax filing obligations, real-property transfer mechanics, or contested proceedings. Where an answer would require one of those, the site says so rather than estimating.

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