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2026 cost estimates for estate planning / probate in Florida, including attorney fees, court costs, and other expenses.
As of June 29, 2026, a estate planning / probate in Florida costs on average $1,850, typically $900-$2,800 for a moderate-complexity case, based on sourced attorney-fee and court-cost data. Typical attorney rates run $170 to $335 per hour. A moderate-complexity case typically takes 2-6 weeks to resolve. Common related costs include notarization fees ($10-$25) and trust registration fee ($50-$200).
Data verified: June 29, 2026
| Complexity | Low | Median | High | Typical Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Simple | $300 | $550 | $900 | 1-2 weeks |
| Moderate | $900 | $1,850 | $2,800 | 2-6 weeks |
| Complex | $2,950 | $5,950 | $9,900 | 1-3 months |
Last verified: June 2026
$170 – $335/ hour
Median: $265/hr
2-6 weeks
For moderate complexity cases
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</script>Estate planning and probate cost formation depends on which side of death the work happens on. Planning documents drafted while someone is alive — a will, a revocable living trust, powers of attorney — are usually flat-fee, priced by document complexity and whether a trust (which avoids probate but requires more drafting) is involved rather than a simple will alone. Probate, which happens after death when an estate moves through court, is billed differently: often hourly or as a percentage of the estate's value, and its cost tracks estate size and how many beneficiaries or disputes are involved.
The biggest cost driver in probate specifically is whether the estate is contested. An estate with a clear will, cooperative beneficiaries, and no significant debts moves through simple probate with predictable court filing fees, executor fees, and appraisal costs. A contested estate — disputed will validity, disagreements among heirs, or complex assets like a business — adds litigation-style hourly billing on top of the base probate costs, which is why complex-case figures on this page run substantially above the simple-case median.
Take a moderate-complexity estate planning / probate matter in Florida. The recorded median total is $1,850, with reported quotes clustering between $900 and $2,800. Each statutory line below is sized against that median.
Added together the itemised lines come to $310–$925, which leaves roughly $925–$1,540 of the Florida median as professional time — the part that differs between quotes.
At $1,850, the median estate planning / probate cost in Florida runs 5% below the $1,954 national average across all 50 states and DC.
Florida carries 3 rows — simple, $300–$900 at $145–$265/hr over 1-2 weeks; moderate, $900–$2,800 at $170–$335/hr over 2-6 weeks; complex, $2,950–$9,900 at $240–$455/hr over 1-3 months — on 4 shared citations. They put it below the midpoint of the table without reaching the bottom quarter.
$1,850 is a median, not the middle of the band — $950 above the $900 floor, $950 under the $2,800 ceiling. Every rank below is out of 46.
Florida occupies the 31st row of 46 for a estate planning / probate. Its $1,850 median trails the $2,075 table midpoint by $225, which is 11% — close enough that a single firm's quote can straddle both figures.
Wyoming ($1,900) and Michigan ($1,850) bracket Florida inside a $50 window — narrow enough that 31st is close to arbitrary.
Wyoming, Michigan, Tennessee record medians within three percent of Florida's $1,850. A estate planning / probate quote anywhere in that group is describing effectively the same market.
Florida ranks 28th of 46 on hourly rate at $265 an hour and 31st on total cost — 3 places apart, enough that the rate is a slightly optimistic guide to the total.
| Rank | State | Median | Against Florida |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | Ohio | $2,050 | +$200 |
| 26 | Minnesota | $2,000 | +$150 |
| 27 | Pennsylvania | $2,000 | +$150 |
| 28 | Indiana | $1,950 | +$100 |
| 29 | Oregon | $1,950 | +$100 |
| 30 | Wyoming | $1,900 | +$50 |
| 31 | Florida | $1,850 | — |
| 32 | Michigan | $1,850 | −$0 |
| 33 | Tennessee | $1,850 | −$0 |
| 34 | Iowa | $1,750 | −$100 |
| 35 | New Mexico | $1,750 | −$100 |
| 36 | Nebraska | $1,650 | −$200 |
| 37 | Idaho | $1,600 | −$250 |
Within ten percent of the Florida figure there are 5 states above and only 2 below. $50 up or $0 down moves Florida a row, which means the ranking has far more room to improve than to slip: the estate planning / probate field is dense overhead and sparse underneath.
Climbing five places would mean passing Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Oregon, Wyoming and adding $150 to the $1,850 recorded here.
Five places down means passing under Michigan, Tennessee, Iowa, New Mexico, Nebraska: $200.
$750 short of Hawaii ($2,600), $500 clear of Alabama ($1,350).
The $1,850 median covers only about 7 hours at the $265 median rate, which is short enough that flat-fee and limited-scope arrangements, rather than an hourly meter, tend to describe how the work is actually billed. That rounds to the same 7 hours as the peer median, so on workload Florida is indistinguishable from the middle of the table at this precision.
Moving from a simple to a complex estate planning / probate multiplies the Florida total by 10.8, and almost all of that is hours rather than price: 3 hours at $190 becomes 18 hours at $335, so the workload grows 6x while the rate grows only 1.76x. Complexity here buys attorney time, not a premium hourly rate.
From $900 to $2,800 the moderate band is $1,900 wide, close to the $2,050 peer median. End to end that is 7 hours at $265.
By implied hours Florida falls to 32nd of 46 at 7 hours, 1 places below its 31st on cost — the estate planning / probate total arriving on less recorded work.
62% up the $900–$2,800 band sits the $2,075 table midpoint, buying 8 hours at $265 against the 7 the local estate planning / probate median implies — 1 hour apart.
| Measure | Florida | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Moderate median | $1,850 | 31st |
| Hourly median | $265 | 28th |
| Implied hours | 7 | 32nd |
| Simple median | $550 | 29th |
| Complex median | $5,950 | 21st |
$265 an hour puts Florida between Michigan ($270) and Georgia ($260) — not the estate planning / probate cost pairing.
No other tracked state records $265 as its median rate, so the figure identifies Florida on its own within this dataset.
$1,850 buys 10 hours at $190, 7 at $265, 6 at $335.
| Rank | State | Median rate |
|---|---|---|
| 26 | Maine | $270 |
| 27 | Michigan | $270 |
| 28 | Florida | $265 |
| 29 | Georgia | $260 |
| 30 | Ohio | $255 |
Florida moves up the table as complexity rises: 29th at the simple tier, 31st at moderate, 21st at complex, a 8-place climb. The state's position on the headline moderate figure understates where it sits once a matter is contested.
$550 is 29th of 46 on a straightforward estate planning / probate, under Wyoming ($600) and over Nevada ($550), $75 under the $625 tier midpoint.
$5,950 is 21st of 46 once contested, between Texas ($6,500) and Illinois ($5,950), $50 off the $5,900 tier midpoint.
The lower two bands run into each other — the simple tier tops out at $900 against a moderate floor of $900 — but there is a clear gap of $150 between the moderate ceiling of $2,800 and the complex floor of $2,950. In Florida the jump into contested work is a step, not a slope.
| Tier | Florida | Rank | Tier midpoint | Implied hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| simple | $550 | 29th | $625 | 3 |
| moderate | $1,850 | 31st | $2,075 | 7 |
| complex | $5,950 | 21st | $5,900 | 18 |
$550 puts Florida 29th of 46 on straightforward matters, 2 up on its moderate position, and $75 (12%) under the $625 tier midpoint.
3 implied hours at $190: 43% of the moderate tier's 7, over 1-2 weeks.
Wyoming ($600) and Nevada ($550) bracket it — a $50 window.
4 states record a simple-tier median within three percent of $550, denser than the 3 around the moderate row.
$5,950 puts Florida 21st of 46 on contested matters, 10 up on its moderate position, and $50 (1%) over the $5,900 tier midpoint.
18 implied hours at $335: 257% of the moderate tier's 7, over 1-3 months.
Texas ($6,500) and Illinois ($5,950) bracket it — a $550 window.
5 states record a complex-tier median within three percent of $5,950, denser than the 3 around the moderate row.
| Rank | State | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 27 | Oregon | $600 |
| 28 | Wyoming | $600 |
| 29 | Florida | $550 |
| 30 | Nevada | $550 |
| 31 | North Dakota | $550 |
| Rank | State | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 19 | Vermont | $6,550 |
| 20 | Texas | $6,500 |
| 21 | Florida | $5,950 |
| 22 | Illinois | $5,950 |
| 23 | Maine | $5,900 |
Among the 8 matter types tracked in Florida, a estate planning / probate records the smallest median at $1,850, below Real Estate Closing on the line above.
Florida is consistent across practice areas: over the matter types tracked here its rank only moves between 29th (DUI / DWI) and 33rd (Immigration), so its 31st on estate planning / probate reflects a general price level rather than something specific to this matter.
The premium Florida carries is close to uniform across practice areas: DUI / DWI runs 4% below its own midpoint and Real Estate Closing runs 12% below its own midpoint, only 8 percentage points apart. Whatever drives the state's price level applies to every matter type here at roughly the same strength.
The largest tracked median in Florida is 5x the smallest, effectively the 5.1x that the typical state records: the internal spread is ordinary even where the levels are not.
0 of 7 matter types rank Florida in the upper third, 0 in the lower, 7 between; estate planning / probate is 31st.
In percentile terms it sits at the 33th percentile of the 46 tracked states.
| Matter | Simple | Moderate | Complex | Hours | Rank | vs mid | Above |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Criminal Defense | $3,350 | $9,200 | $29,300 | 32 | 31st | −10% | Indiana |
| Divorce | $2,900 | $8,000 | $22,800 | 28 | 31st | −6% | Missouri |
| DUI / DWI | $3,650 | $7,150 | $14,950 | 27 | 29th | −4% | Maine |
| Personal Injury | $1,500 | $4,550 | $13,800 | — | — | −12% | — |
| Immigration | $1,850 | $4,350 | $11,350 | 16 | 33rd | −8% | Wyoming |
| Bankruptcy | $1,400 | $3,150 | $5,100 | 13 | 31st | −12% | Idaho |
| Real Estate Closing | $1,000 | $1,950 | $4,050 | 8 | 29th | −12% | Arizona |
| Estate Planning / Probate | $550 | $1,850 | $5,950 | 7 | 31st | −11% | Wyoming |
Simple tier. $550 ÷ $190 = about 3 hours — 4 fewer than the moderate tier's 7, and $1,300 less.
Work against price. $1,850 to $5,950 is a $4,100 step, mostly work: 11 more hours at $265 is $2,915, while moving to $335 across 18 hours adds $1,260. Work carries 70%.
Borrowing the wrong row. Michigan ($1,850) is $0 light, Wyoming ($1,900) is $50 heavy — but the $2,075 table midpoint is out by $225, 5x the neighbour error.
Contested against simple. At Florida's own recorded figures, $5,950 buys 10.8 matters at the $550 simple median — or, counted in time, 18 implied hours against 3, a factor of 6 — the two ratios differing because the rate rises with the tier.
Verified June 2026. Filing fees change on the Floridacourt's own schedule; billing models are covered in the legal fees guide.
This tool provides general cost estimates for informational purposes only. It is NOT legal advice. Costs vary significantly based on individual circumstances. Consult a licensed attorney in your jurisdiction for specific guidance.