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Small Estate Threshold, By Date of Death Date of DeathAmount2023 - Present$27,0002022 - 2023$25,0002020 - 2021$24,0002018 - 2019$23,00014 more rows

If the deceased owned no property, no probate is required. If the deceased owned property as joint tenants with someone else, the property passes automatically to the surviving owner in line with the Right of Survivorship.

The dollar limit can change each year. If a person dies in 2023, an estate must be valued at $27,000 or less to be small. If a person died in 2022, an estate must be valued at $25,000 or less. If a person died in 2020 or 2021, an estate must be valued at $24,000 or less.

A Michigan small estate affidavit is a document that allows a petitioner, known as an ?affiant,? to stake a claim on property from the estate of a deceased loved one, known as the ?decedent.? In Michigan, this process is available to estates that have a value of $15,000 ? as adjusted for cost of living (see below) ? or ...

Ing to Michigan law, this simplified procedure is available if the value of the estate is less than $15,000 after all funeral and burial costs are paid. Probate can be skipped altogether in cases where the estate is valued as lower than $15,000 and contains no real estate.

If the estate's value is under the ?small estates? limit in Michigan, you can use a simplified probate procedure, called a ?summary probate.? You don't need a court hearing in front of a judge ? you only need to file simple forms and wait a certain amount of time before distributing the assets.