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Probate deadline tracker
Probate runs on clocks, and each clock starts on a different day. Enter whichever anchor dates you have and this tracker computes your state’s creditor windows, inventory deadline and statutory bars — each with the statute that sets it. Nothing you type leaves your browser.
Every probate deadline counts from one of three anchor dates. The date of death anchors the outer bars — the last day to probate a will and the absolute cut-off for creditor claims. The date letters were issued — the day the court appoints you and you qualify — starts most working deadlines, like filing the inventory. And in Florida, North Carolina, Illinois, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Alabama, the creditor clock runs from the first publication of the notice to creditors, not from the death or the appointment — which is why the publication date matters: enter it late or date it wrong, and the day creditors are barred shifts with it. Enter whichever dates you have; the tracker computes each deadline from its own anchor and tells you plainly which date it still needs.
Deadlines are verified for these ten states. Every date below is computed in your browser from the statute cited — nothing is sent or stored.
Anchors the outer time bars — for example the last day to probate a will and the absolute cut-off for creditor claims.
The date the court issued your letters testamentary or of administration — when you officially qualified as executor or administrator. Most working deadlines, like the inventory, count from this date. Leave it blank until you have it; the list below will say which dates it still needs.
The date the notice to creditors was first published, if it has run. Several states count the creditor-claims window from this date rather than from the death or the appointment.
Choose a state above to see its statutory deadlines. You can enter the dates first — each deadline will be computed from its own anchor date as soon as a state is chosen.