Self Help
Supplemental Forms to Simplified Probate Presentation
The informational video on our main page on this topic makes reference to a packet of documents – the contents of that document
packet are provided below.
These forms are provided as a courtesy, and you must be sure to confirm the forms are the most recent version available through the Judicial Council website, County Assessor website, or any other source from which these documents are originally retrieved.
Superior Court Filing Fee
If you want to ask the court to waive your Superior Court filing fees for any of the procedures described in the information video, you can use forms FW-001 – Request for Fee Waiver and FW-003- Order on Fee Waiver.
Forms Described in Video
Please note: There is no procedure which will require all of these forms. This is the complete set given by Ms. Dodds in her video – if the procedures she describes in her video are appropriate for you, you will need some of these documents.
- Blank Affidavit – Death of Joint Tenant
- Chart of Relationships
- Consanguinity chart
- CA Intestate Succession Summary
- Blank Affidavit – Surviving Spouse or Domestic Partner
- Affidavit for Collection of Personal Property Under Probate Code § 13100 – Editable
- DE-160 – Inventory and Appraisal partly filled
- 7 KERN County Form BOE-502-D for 2021
- DE-161 – Inventory and Appraisal Attachment
- DE 305 Affidavit re Real Property of Small Value
- Recording Cover Sheet Affidavit Small Value
- Preliminary Change of Ownership Report
- DE – 310 Petition to Determine Succession to Real Property
- DE-120 – Notice of Hearing – Decedent’s Estate or Trust
- SUPPLEMENT
- DE-315 – Order Determining Succession to Real Property (Estates of $166,250 or Less)
- Recording Cover Sheet Order Determining
- DE-221 – Spousal or Domestic Partner Property Petition
- Attachment 7 for Spousal Property Petition
- Index To Spousal Property Petition
- DE-226 – Spousal or Domestic Partner Property Order
- Recording Cover Sheet Spousal Order
- DE-131 – Proof of Subscribing Witness
- DE-135 – Proof of Holographic Instrument
- Assignment of Interest in Estate
- KERN County Form BOE-19-G for 2022
- KERN County Form BOE-19-P for 2022
- KERN County Form BOE-58-AH for 2021
- KERN County Form BOE-58-G for 2021
- Declaration of Diligent Search and Request to Dispense With Notice
- DE-300 – Maximum Values for Small Estate Set-Aside & Disposition of Estate Without Administration

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