Probate
- Directory
- Forms
- Notice Concerning Fiduciary Relationship (U.S. Internal Revenue Service)
- Probate (WI Court System)
- Probate Claims Notice (WI Dept. of Health Services)
- Transfer by Affidavit (State Bar of Wisconsin)
- Transfer on Death / Termination of Decedent’s Property Interest (WI Register of Deeds Assoc.)
- Estate and Probate Forms from Wisconsin Counties (WI State Law Library)
- Records
- Access to Court Records and Genealogy (WI Register in Probate Assoc.)
- Wisconsin Circuit Court Access
- Claims Against an Estate (WI Register in Probate Assoc.)
- Debts and Deceased Relatives (Federal Trade Commission)
- DMV guide for family members of recently deceased (WI Dept. of Transporation)
- Estate Planning, Probate, and Wills (UW Law Library)
- Estate Recovery for Medicaid & Other Programs, Transfer by Affidavit (WI Dept. of Health)
How the estate recovery program recovers money from estates through the use of the Transfer by Affidavit process. - Filial Responsibility Laws for 50 States (Dickinson School of Law)
- Medicaid Estate Recovery Program (WI Dept. of Health)
- Personal Representative's Guide to Informal Estate Administration in Wisconsin (WI Register in Probate Association)
- Probate (WI Register in Probate Assoc.)
Types of probate proceedings, benchmarks (time for closing estates). Includes probate FAQs and probate filing fees. - Probate: Answering Your Legal Questions (State Bar of WI)
- Wisconsin Register in Probate Association
Access statutory fees & answers to FAQs concerning probate.
The Law (Additional statutes, regulations & opinions may apply to your specific situation.)
- WI Statutes ch. 705 sub. ch. II "Nonprobate Transfers at Death; Nonprobate Transfers of Real Property"
- WI Statutes: ch. 851-882 "Probate"
- WI Statutes: s. 814.66 "Fees of Register in Probate"
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Estate Taxes
- Estate & Gift Taxes (U.S. Internal Revenue Service)
- Estates & Fiduciaries FAQs (WI Dept. of Revenue)
The Law (Additional statutes, regulations & opinions may apply to your specific situation.)
- WI Statutes: ch. 72 "Estate Tax"
- U.S. Code: 26 USC 2001-2704 "Estate and Gift Taxes"
- CFR: 26 CFR pt. 20 to pt. 29 "Estate & Gift Taxes"
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County Resources
Recommended links from our County Resources database:
Court Forms
- Guardianship, Termination of Parental Rights and Probate Forms and Guidelines (Lincoln Register in Probate)
- Probate (Marathon Register in Probate)
Informal probate checklist, transfer by affidavit checklist, non-probate of filed will, petition and order waiving fiduciary income tax return, special administration checklist.
Guides
- Estates & Probate (Adams Register in Probate)
- Estates & Probate (Barron Register in Probate)
- Estates & Trusts (Fond du Lac Register in Probate)
Information, formal, special administration, summary assignment and settlement, transfer by affidavit
- Guidelines for Preparing Annual Accounts (Polk Register in Probate)
- Informal Probate Guidelines (Lincoln Register in Probate)
- Miscellaneous Probate Procedures (Lincoln Register in Probate)
- Probate FAQ (Dane Register in Probate)
- Probate FAQs (Polk Register in Probate)
- Probate Guide (Polk Register in Probate)
- Types of Probate (Douglas Register in Probate)
Ancillary proceedings, formal admin, informal admin, probate benchmarks, special admin, summary assignment, summary settlement, transfer by affidavit
Related Topics
Law Review Articles
- New Probate Code Affects Estate Planning at Divorce
72 Wis Lawyer 3 (Mar 1999) - Simple Probate Should not be this Complicated
Wis. L. Rev. 2008:3 (May-June 2008) 575-609 - Time Runs Out on Wisconsin's Estate Tax
80 Wis Lawyer 12 (Dec 2007)
Library Resources
- Death in Wisconsin: a Legal Practitioners Guide to Postmortem Administration
- Fundamental Probate Procedures & Practice
- Key Issues in Estate Planning & Probate
- Wisconsin Probate System: Forms and Procedures Handbook