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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.

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.

Motor Vehicles. If a decedent dies with no probate assets (i.e., owns nothing in their name alone) except for one or more motor vehicles whose total value is not more than $60,000, title to the vehicles can be transferred by the Secretary of State without opening an estate in the Probate Court.

Upon death of an owner of a registered vehicle, the license plate assigned to the vehicle, unless the vehicle is destroyed, is a valid registration until the end of the registration year or until the personal representative of the owner's estate transfers ownership of the vehicle.

Motor Vehicles. If a decedent dies with no probate assets (i.e., owns nothing in their name alone) except for one or more motor vehicles whose total value is not more than $60,000, title to the vehicles can be transferred by the Secretary of State without opening an estate in the Probate Court.

Affidavit of Decedent's Successor for Delivery of Certain Assets Owned by Decedent (PC 598) may be used to affirm the following: More than 28 days have passed since the death of the decedent. The estate does not include real property.