brother died and has no will

What is the name of your state?What is the name of your state? Georgia

My brother died suddenly in April leaving only six adult brothers and sisters. I now receive his mail and have found that he owned some assets, totalling less than $2000.
None of my siblings live in Georgia and I would like to know what the steps would be to have an executor named who could handle the disbursement of the few assets he had. Obviously we don't want to incur any legal costs as the estate is not large enough to pay them.
Is there some small estate procedure in Georgia law that would permit us to handle it ourselves?

You need to be contacting the county courthouse probate court for whatever city he died in to ask if there is a special form/procedure for probating small estates and finding out what they consider to be the minimum amount of estate value to be considered a small estate. If you don't know to find that address and phone number, please mention here what city the death occurred in so I can look it up for you.

The filing fees will probably be minimum (a few hundred dollars) and this is probably something that one member of the family can do on their own without the services of an attorney.

He died in Cobb County, Georgia, although he lived in Haralson County.

You may want to check in both counties to get information:

www.co.cobb.ga.us
COBB COUNTY
100 CHEROKEE ST., SUITE 300
MARIETTA, GA 30090 Phone Number (770) 528-3300

www.haralsoncountyga.org
HARALSON COUNTY
P. O. BOX 489
BUCHANAN, GA 30113 Phone Number (770) 646-2002

DANDY DON IN OKLAHOMA ([email protected])