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Every source behind the North Dakota guide

4 primary records, quoted verbatim and checked against 14 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 North Dakota 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

N.D.C.C. § 30.1-23-01

North Dakota Legislative Branch (Century Code) · Publisher states no currentness signal; manual session review required · Verified August 9, 2026

The value of the entire estate subject to distribution or succession under chapters 30.1-01 through 30.1-23, wherever located, less liens and encumbrances, does not exceed one hundred thousand dollars. b. Thirty days have elapsed since the death of the decedent.

What this means: Section body served by the ndlegis.gov chapter-level PDF for N.D.C.C. ch. 30.1-23 (collection by affidavit / small estates). The section heading carries the Uniform Probate Code cross-reference '(3-1201) Collection of personal property by affidavit'.

What was published from this source

  • ND N.D.C.C. § 30.1-23-01

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.

  • threshold $100,000 net of liens
  • waiting 30 days
  • section identity 30.1-23-01
  • section identity

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Executor compensation rule

N.D.C.C. § 30.1-18-19

North Dakota Legislative Branch (Century Code) · Publisher states no currentness signal; manual session review required · Verified August 9, 2026

A personal representative is entitled to reasonable compensation for the personal representative's services. If a will provides for compensation of the personal representative and there is no contract with the decedent regarding compensation, the personal representative may renounce the provision before qualifying and be entitled to reasonable compensation.

What this means: Section body served by the ndlegis.gov chapter-level PDF for N.D.C.C. ch. 30.1-18 (powers and duties of personal representatives). The section heading carries the Uniform Probate Code cross-reference '(3-719) Compensation of personal representative'.

What was published from this source

  • ND N.D.C.C. § 30.1-18-19

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 standard
  • section identity 30.1-18-19
  • section identity

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Court cost rule

N.D.C.C. § 27-05.2-03(1)(a)

North Dakota Legislative Branch (Century Code) · Publisher states no currentness signal; manual session review required · Verified August 9, 2026

A clerk of the district court shall charge and collect the following fees in civil cases: a. For filing a case for decision that is not under subdivision b or e, one hundred sixty dollars.

What this means: Served by the ndlegis.gov chapter-level PDF for N.D.C.C. ch. 27-05.2 (district court fees). $160 is the general civil case commencement fee under 27-05.2-03(1)(a); a formal or informal probate proceeding is filed as a case for decision. The statute lists fees by case type and does not use the word 'probate', so this maps the case-for-decision figure onto a probate filing.

What was published from this source

  • ND N.D.C.C. § 27-05.2-03(1)(a)

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.

  • civil case filing fee $160
  • section identity 27-05.2-03
  • section identity

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Creditor deadline rule

N.D.C.C. § 30.1-19-03(1)

North Dakota Legislative Branch (Century Code) · Publisher states no currentness signal; manual session review required · Verified August 9, 2026

unless presented as follows: a. Within three months after the date of the first publication and mailing of notice to creditors if notice is given in compliance with section 30.1-19-01; provided, claims barred by the nonclaim statute at the decedent's domicile before the first publication for claims in this state are also barred in this state. b. Within three years after the decedent's death, if notice to creditors has not been published and mailed.

What this means: Section body served by the ndlegis.gov chapter-level PDF for N.D.C.C. ch. 30.1-19 (creditors' claims). The section heading carries the Uniform Probate Code cross-reference '(3-803) Limitations on presentation of claims'.

What was published from this source

  • ND N.D.C.C. § 30.1-19-03(1)

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 3-month bar
  • outer 3-year bar
  • section identity 30.1-19-03
  • section identity

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Statutes read in full for North Dakota

These are the North Dakota 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 North Dakota — 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
N.D.C.C. § 27-05.2-03Which North Dakota filing fee a probate attracts depends on what is being filed — court and filing cost note2026-09-17
N.D.C.C. § 30.1-19-03 (UPC 3-803)North Dakota runs a three-month window, but only once notice is both published and mailed — creditor deadline note2026-09-17
N.D.C.C. §§ 30.1-23-01, 30.1-23-03, 30.1-23-04North Dakota has two small-estate routes, and only one of them is a dollar figure — small estate route note2026-09-17
N.D.C.C. § 30.1-18-19 (UPC 3-719)North Dakota adopted the uniform fee rule and did not add factors to it — representative pay note2026-09-17

North Dakota source decision map

How the North Dakota records fit together

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

QuestionRecorded North Dakota answerCarry into the case
What route is being screened?Collection of personal property by affidavit (N.D.C.C. § 30.1-23-01)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?$100,000Use the counted property, not a bank-balance shortcut.
What is the time or deadline record?30 days after death; North Dakota runs multiple independently-triggered claim deadlines that cannot honestly collapse into one number: a three-month bar from the date of first publication and mailing of notice to creditors (§ 30.1-19-03(1)(a), notice under § 30.1-19-01); and an outer bar of three years after death where no notice to creditors has been given (§ 30.1-19-03(1)(b)). Publishing a single figure would mislead.Keep the event that starts each clock with the date; do not combine separate periods into one number.
What does the cost record establish?$160 is the recorded statewide amount.Ask the District Court about local surcharges, copies, publication, bond, and later filings.
What does compensation use?N.D.C.C. § 30.1-18-19 entitles a personal representative to "reasonable compensation for the personal representative's services." There is no statutory percentage schedule. A will may fix compensation, but the personal representative may renounce that provision before qualifying and take reasonable compensation instead. 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 North Dakota source set does not silently decide

The North Dakota 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 North Dakota amount screen without mistaking it for a result

The recorded North Dakota ceiling is $100,000, 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 North Dakota 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 North Dakota counts and how it values it are decided before the comparison is made.

Illustrative counted amountComparison to the North Dakota ceilingWhat it does not decide
$75,000Below $100,000Title, liens, waiting period, appointment, or creditor duties
$125,000Above $100,000Whether 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

Probate in North Dakota is handled by the District Court. The court system publishes statewide informal-probate self-help resources and a district-court fee page. The operative filing fee is set statewide by N.D.C.C. § 27-05.2-03; the § 30.1-23-01 affidavit is a private demand instrument, not a court filing.

The North Dakota Century Code chapter PDFs at ndlegis.gov embed subset fonts that do not extract to machine-readable text; the section bodies are therefore sourced from the North Dakota Legislative Branch's official Century Code JSON API (ndlegis.gov/api/data/century_code.json), which serves the same codified text as clean strings.

Source trail

Records used by this North Dakota map

  • N.D.C.C. § 30.1-23-01N.D.C.C. § 30.1-23-01 (3-1201) — Collection of personal property by affidavit; reviewed August 9, 2026
  • N.D.C.C. § 30.1-18-19N.D.C.C. § 30.1-18-19 (3-719) — Compensation of personal representative; reviewed August 9, 2026
  • N.D.C.C. § 27-05.2-03(1)(a)N.D.C.C. § 27-05.2-03 — Fees to be charged by the clerk of the district court; reviewed August 9, 2026
  • N.D.C.C. § 30.1-19-03(1)N.D.C.C. § 30.1-19-03 (3-803) — Limitations on presentation of claims; reviewed August 9, 2026

What North Dakota 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

  • Probate in North Dakota is handled by the District Court. The court system publishes statewide informal-probate self-help resources and a district-court fee page. The operative filing fee is set statewide by N.D.C.C. § 27-05.2-03; the § 30.1-23-01 affidavit is a private demand instrument, not a court filing.
  • The North Dakota Century Code chapter PDFs at ndlegis.gov embed subset fonts that do not extract to machine-readable text; the section bodies are therefore sourced from the North Dakota Legislative Branch's official Century Code JSON API (ndlegis.gov/api/data/century_code.json), which serves the same codified text as clean strings.

Checking these North Dakota 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 North Dakota. 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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