Are there additional costs, or tax increases, associated with probate?
One of the most persistent misunderstandings is the notion that the government gets more money from the probate proceeding than from estates where probate has been avoided. Other than court filing fees, there is no government payment associated with the probate process in Arizona (some other states, notably California, have attempted to set court filing fees as a function of estate size, but those fees have been struck down as nothing more than a backdoor attempt to impose an estate tax prohibited by California’s state Constitution).
