Professional Legal Services

The Vendor is required to provide legal services to the county treasurer, when appointed as public administrator in a particular estate, pursuant to the provisions of the state.
- Probate Proceedings: For a decedent who dies with a will, probate is the procedure for admitting the will to probate and the process of administering the testate estate that follows.
- In a probate proceeding, the court oversees the process of identifying and gathering the decedent's assets, paying the decedent's debts, and distributing assets to the beneficiaries.
- Filing the probate petition with the original will and requesting that letters testamentary be issued to an executor.
- Providing the relevant notices to beneficiaries, heirs, and other interested parties.
- Determining whether the surviving spouse or children, if any, have any rights to exempt property, a family allowance, an elective or pretermitted spouse's share, or a pretermitted child's share and filing the required elections or petitions regarding those rights.
- Managing creditors' claims.
- Preparing and serving an estate inventory.
- Administering the estate by:
• Collecting the decedent's probate assets and re-titling them in the name of the estate;
• Filing any necessary tax returns;
• Paying the taxes and expenses of administration;
• Objecting to invalid creditor claims and paying valid creditor claims; and
• Distributing the estate assets to the decedent's beneficiaries or heirs.
Record Keeping & Reporting, including
• An individual inventory of every item of real and personal property relating to the estate, and
• The location of such assets, except that like items of individual value of less than $25 may be described in lots.
- Contract Period/Term: 2 years
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: May 2, 2025