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mizelle00

Junior Member
California

our father's estate is less than $100,000.00 and he has no spouse, real estate, business interests or joint property of any kind. I have been named administrator of the estate and am in the Inventory and Appraisal phase. My brother-in-law paid for the funeral, and we have already repaid him with cash assets because it was on a high-interest credit card. Does he need to file a claim against the estate?
 


Dandy Don

Senior Member
Why would he want to do that? There is no reason to. Did you also provide a receipt when you made the cash payment that specified what the payment was for?
 

mizelle00

Junior Member
Yes, of course, I have records for everything. On what form, then, will I be providing that information to the court?
 

tecate

Member
Look at Probate Code Section 9154 for your authority to pay him without a formal claim. You will be providing payment of creditors information in your petition for final distribution, which is not a form.
 

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