Small-Estate Affidavit Procedure by US State (2026): 38 of 51 Jurisdictions Verified

Small-estate collection procedure by US jurisdiction: the instrument, the waiting period, whether notarisation is required, the filing route, whether the procedure reaches real property, the official form where one exists, and the statutory citation — each read from the jurisdiction's own statute or official court materials. v1.1 raises verified coverage from 35 to 38 of 51, adding Texas, Oklahoma and South Dakota. Each was read from primary statutory text after routes were found to sources previously recorded as unreachable — a third-party mirror, a legislature-published full-title PDF, and an official site's API endpoint respectively. No single route worked for more than one state. Unverified jurisdictions are listed explicitly rather than omitted. Texas's reaches_real_property field is left empty rather than guessed, because the statute references real-property limits that were not read.