Small Estate

You added up the accounts and landed above $50,000. Or there is a house. Either way the small estate route […]

This is the reason most people file. There is money sitting in an account at Chase, Citi, or a credit

Short answer: no, and it is worse than that. If the person who died owned real property in their name

Weeks, not months, in a clean case. But the court is rarely what determines the timeline. What determines it is

A New York small estate is one of the few court processes an ordinary person can genuinely complete without a

Not just any relative can file. New York decides who may serve as voluntary administrator by a fixed order, and

The number sounds simple until you start counting. New York’s small estate threshold is $50,000, but it applies to a

Both are Surrogate’s Court proceedings. Both end with someone legally authorized to collect and distribute what a person left behind.

Yes. The small estate affidavit is a sworn document, so it must be signed in front of a notary before