Hillsborough County Circuit Court probate division Guide

New Hampshire probate filing fees are STATEWIDE. One schedule, N.H. Circuit Court Probate Division Rule 169, governs all ten probate divisions; it is adopted under RSA 490:26-a and the money is paid to the clerk of the circuit court under RSA 490:27, so no county sets, keeps or varies a probate filing fee. The Petition for Estate Administration is a FLAT fee chosen by the estate's gross value at two breakpoints: $150 at a gross value of $10,000 or less, $205 for over $10,000 up to $25,000, and $305 for a gross value greater than $25,000. The top tier is flat and open-ended, so an estate of $30,000 and an estate of $30,000,000 both pay $305; the single figure stored here is that top-tier amount, which is what almost every administered estate pays. Those breakpoints are FEE tiers only and create no simplified procedure. The entry fee already includes the $55 publication charge on estates over $10,000 (no publication is required at $10,000 or less, RSA 553:16), a $30 electronic case filing surcharge (Rule 169(VII)) and the $5 mediation and arbitration fund surcharge (RSA 490:27, II). It does NOT include in-hand service by a sheriff, or extra copies and certificates. A Motion for Summary Administration is $105 on top of the entry fee already paid to open the estate. An accounting is $0 where the gross estate is $25,000 or less and $105 above that. Certificates under the seal of the court are $10 each, copies $0.50 per page, certification $10 plus the copy fee, an authenticated (exemplified) copy of probate $40, and a records research request $6.50 per name per court. Every amount was read on 2026-08-03 at Rule 169 and on the Judicial Branch's published Circuit Court Filing Fees schedule, whose own first page is dated 07/01/2025. Since September 3, 2025 a 3% fee applies to card payments made through TurboCourt or File & Serve. Confirm the current amount with the circuit court clerk before filing. WHY NO SINGLE NUMBER IS STORED HERE: the Petition for Estate Administration is tiered by gross estate value, so the three estate_administration_* fields ARE the fact and no bare formal_administration figure is stored. A single number would be published verbatim by filing-packet.ts as "Formal administration: $X" and would misstate two of the three brackets -- an estate of $10,000 or less pays $150 and one up to $25,000 pays $205, not the $305 top-tier amount. The schedule is not graduated in the Maine or Ohio sense either: the three tiers are flat and the top one is open-ended, so an estate of $30,000 and an estate of $30,000,000 both pay $305, with no per-dollar step and no marginal rate. summary_administration (105) is the builder-read numeric fee. Never present a single figure as the New Hampshire administration fee, and never extrapolate a larger one.