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Small Estate Affidavit - Illinois State Treasurer Form

hi if you are looking to claim a property or an asset from someone who had died say the person did not leave a will and they have left save money and bank accounts or just general assets such as cars anything and you believe that you are the rightful heir to what they left behind you will fill out this form that is called the small state affidavit now it depends on the state if there's basically anywhere from a value of five thousand all the way up to a hundred thousand it depends on the state each state gives a maximum but basically say the person left behind two hundred thousand dollars and they did not have a will you probably won't be able to use this form but if the person left behind a smaller amount of money and again it depends on the state all you have to do is say click on the state in Florida that we have here and we have the amount that's listed for example the state of Florida's seventy-five thousand dollars so all you have to do is just figure out what it is in your state now the best is to use the state specific forms here but if you decide to use our form that is free and usable in all the states you can do so by just clicking on Adobe PDF or Microsoft Word so we're going to go through the Adobe PDF version real quick for you so this is a fillable PDF all you have to do is just enter the name of the deceased right here state county that's applicable comes now you are known as the affiant which is the person who's claiming the property you want to write the date of death here and then you want to initial one of these two which is I am the dissidents assessor and interest or you are the authorized agent of someone who's claiming the property so here you want to write the maximum amount of what you think everything is worth come down here you want to enter all the property here that you are claiming and then on we'll get back down here you want to enter the affiant which is you your name are here your address and then what you have to do down here is you have to get what this far he's doing what you have to do is get two witnesses that knew you know you and knew the person that died and that have no monetary interest in basically sticking out for you so what you need to do is get both of those people to sign on this area in front of a notary public and then you can file this form with the probate county office in your jurisdiction of where the person died and then hopefully you'll get they'll rule in your favor and you'll be able to claim that property and that's it as how you can claim Edessa dense property without a will