No. We purposefully do not provide probate forms, which are persnickety legal documents that vary widely by jurisdiction, by whom and what’s involved in the estate.

If there’s one mistake on one form, the entire application may be rejected by the Court and have to be refiled, tying the executor’s hands for weeks or months.

Even lawyers, who are not estate specialists, not experienced in the nuances of probate, regularly have their applications rejected and end up learning on the estate’s dime.

This is why we recommend using an experienced estate lawyer with an experienced estate paralegal, who has a high probability of filing the application correctly the first time.

Your executor may wish to make the probate application themselves. If they are legal forms savvy and detail oriented, they can download the forms and fill them in with help from clerks in the probate office. It may take more than one attempt to get the application accepted, but it can save the estate 10’s of 1,000’s of dollars in legal fees.