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.
2026 cost estimates for estate planning / probate in Oregon, including attorney fees, court costs, and other expenses.
As of June 29, 2026, a estate planning / probate in Oregon costs on average $1,950, typically $1,000-$3,000 for a moderate-complexity case, based on sourced attorney-fee and court-cost data. Typical attorney rates run $185 to $375 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 | $600 | $1,000 | 1-2 weeks |
| Moderate | $1,000 | $1,950 | $3,000 | 2-6 weeks |
| Complex | $3,350 | $6,750 | $11,200 | 1-3 months |
Last verified: June 2026
$185 – $375/ hour
Median: $295/hr
2-6 weeks
For moderate complexity cases
New to how attorney fees work? Read the legal fees guide — hourly, flat, and contingency billing explained.
Researching costs in another area? These free tools from our network may help.
Add this calculator to your own site with a copy-paste snippet — includes an attribution link back to this page.
<iframe
id="legalcostcalc-embed"
src="https://legalcostcalc.co/embed/oregon/estate-planning-cost"
title="Oregon Estate Planning / Probate Cost Calculator"
width="100%"
height="720"
style="border:1px solid #e2e8f0;border-radius:8px;max-width:768px;"
loading="lazy"
></iframe>
<p style="font-size:12px;text-align:center;">
<a href="https://legalcostcalc.co/oregon/estate-planning-cost?utm_source=embed&utm_medium=widget&utm_campaign=embed_snippet" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow ugc">
Powered by LegalCostCalc
</a>
</p>
<script>
window.addEventListener("message", function (event) {
if (!event.data || event.data.type !== "legalcostcalc:embed-resize") return;
var frame = document.getElementById("legalcostcalc-embed");
if (frame && typeof event.data.height === "number") {
frame.style.height = event.data.height + "px";
}
});
</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 Oregon. The recorded median total is $1,950, with reported quotes clustering between $1,000 and $3,000. Each statutory line below is sized against that median.
Added together the itemised lines come to $310–$925, which leaves roughly $1,025–$1,640 of the Oregon median as professional time — the part that differs between quotes.
At $1,950, the median estate planning / probate cost in Oregon is in line with the $1,954 national average across all 50 states and DC.
Oregon carries 3 rows — simple, $300–$1,000 at $160–$295/hr over 1-2 weeks; moderate, $1,000–$3,000 at $185–$375/hr over 2-6 weeks; complex, $3,350–$11,200 at $270–$510/hr over 1-3 months — on 4 shared citations. They put it below the midpoint of the table without reaching the bottom quarter.
$1,950 is a median, not the middle of the band — $950 above the $1,000 floor, $1,050 under the $3,000 ceiling. Every rank below is out of 46.
Oregon occupies the 29th row of 46 for a estate planning / probate. Its $1,950 median trails the $2,075 table midpoint by $125, which is 6% — close enough that a single firm's quote can straddle both figures.
Indiana ($1,950) and Wyoming ($1,900) bracket Oregon inside a $50 window — narrow enough that 29th is close to arbitrary.
4 tracked states — Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Wyoming among them — record a median within three percent of Oregon's $1,950. The figure sits in the densest part of the estate planning / probate distribution, where a rank change of several rows costs only a few hundred dollars.
Rate and total point in different directions. Oregon attorneys rank 19th of 46 at $295 an hour, 10 places above where the state lands on total estate planning / probate cost (29th) — on these rows, high rates are not accompanied by high totals.
| Rank | State | Median | Against Oregon |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | Wisconsin | $2,100 | +$150 |
| 24 | Georgia | $2,050 | +$100 |
| 25 | Ohio | $2,050 | +$100 |
| 26 | Minnesota | $2,000 | +$50 |
| 27 | Pennsylvania | $2,000 | +$50 |
| 28 | Indiana | $1,950 | −$0 |
| 29 | Oregon | $1,950 | — |
| 30 | Wyoming | $1,900 | −$50 |
| 31 | Florida | $1,850 | −$100 |
| 32 | Michigan | $1,850 | −$100 |
| 33 | Tennessee | $1,850 | −$100 |
| 34 | Iowa | $1,750 | −$200 |
| 35 | New Mexico | $1,750 | −$200 |
Within ten percent of the Oregon figure there are 8 states above and only 4 below. $0 up or $50 down moves Oregon 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 Georgia, Ohio, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Indiana and adding $100 to the $1,950 recorded here.
Five places down means passing under Wyoming, Florida, Michigan, Tennessee, Iowa: $200.
$650 short of Hawaii ($2,600), $600 clear of Alabama ($1,350).
The $1,950 median covers only about 7 hours at the $295 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 Oregon is indistinguishable from the middle of the table at this precision.
Moving from a simple to a complex estate planning / probate multiplies the Oregon total by 11.3, and almost all of that is hours rather than price: 3 hours at $215 becomes 18 hours at $375, so the workload grows 6x while the rate grows only 1.74x. Complexity here buys attorney time, not a premium hourly rate.
From $1,000 to $3,000 the moderate band is $2,000 wide, close to the $2,050 peer median. End to end that is 7 hours at $295.
By implied hours Oregon falls to 44th of 46 at 7 hours, 15 places below its 29th on cost — the estate planning / probate total arriving on less recorded work.
54% up the $1,000–$3,000 band sits the $2,075 table midpoint, buying 7 hours at $295 against the 7 the local estate planning / probate median implies — 0 hours apart.
| Measure | Oregon | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Moderate median | $1,950 | 29th |
| Hourly median | $295 | 19th |
| Implied hours | 7 | 44th |
| Simple median | $600 | 27th |
| Complex median | $6,750 | 12th |
$295 an hour puts Oregon between Minnesota ($295) and Texas ($290) — not the estate planning / probate cost pairing.
Illinois, Minnesota record the same $295: rate cannot separate them, totals do.
$1,950 buys 9 hours at $215, 7 at $295, 5 at $375.
| Rank | State | Median rate |
|---|---|---|
| 17 | Illinois | $295 |
| 18 | Minnesota | $295 |
| 19 | Oregon | $295 |
| 20 | Texas | $290 |
| 21 | Pennsylvania | $285 |
Rank is not stable across the tiers, and the direction matters. Oregon runs 27th at the simple tier, 29th at moderate, 12th at complex of 46 — it climbs 15 places as the matter gets harder. Straightforward estate planning / probate work is recorded at ordinary prices here; contested work is not.
$600 is 27th of 46 on a straightforward estate planning / probate, under Indiana ($600) and over Wyoming ($600), $25 under the $625 tier midpoint.
$6,750 is 12th of 46 once contested, between Minnesota ($6,950) and Virginia ($6,750), $850 off the $5,900 tier midpoint.
The lower two bands run into each other — the simple tier tops out at $1,000 against a moderate floor of $1,000 — but there is a clear gap of $350 between the moderate ceiling of $3,000 and the complex floor of $3,350. In Oregon the jump into contested work is a step, not a slope.
| Tier | Oregon | Rank | Tier midpoint | Implied hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| simple | $600 | 27th | $625 | 3 |
| moderate | $1,950 | 29th | $2,075 | 7 |
| complex | $6,750 | 12th | $5,900 | 18 |
$600 puts Oregon 27th of 46 on straightforward matters, 2 up on its moderate position, and $25 (4%) under the $625 tier midpoint.
3 implied hours at $215: 43% of the moderate tier's 7, over 1-2 weeks.
Indiana ($600) and Wyoming ($600) bracket it — a $0 window.
4 states sit within three percent of the $600 here, against 4 at the moderate row.
$6,750 puts Oregon 12th of 46 on contested matters, 17 up on its moderate position, and $850 (14%) over the $5,900 tier midpoint.
18 implied hours at $375: 257% of the moderate tier's 7, over 1-3 months.
Minnesota ($6,950) and Virginia ($6,750) bracket it — a $200 window.
8 states record a complex-tier median within three percent of $6,750, denser than the 4 around the moderate row.
| Rank | State | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 25 | Georgia | $600 |
| 26 | Indiana | $600 |
| 27 | Oregon | $600 |
| 28 | Wyoming | $600 |
| 29 | Florida | $550 |
| Rank | State | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | New York | $7,050 |
| 11 | Minnesota | $6,950 |
| 12 | Oregon | $6,750 |
| 13 | Virginia | $6,750 |
| 14 | Colorado | $6,700 |
Among the 8 matter types tracked in Oregon, a estate planning / probate records the smallest median at $1,950, below Real Estate Closing on the line above.
The state does not rank uniformly. Oregon is 12th of 46 for Criminal Defense but 29th for Estate Planning / Probate, a 17-place spread across the matter types tracked here, so its 29th on estate planning / probate says little about what the other lines cost.
Oregon is not equally priced in every practice area. Measured against each matter's own midpoint, Immigration runs 12% above its own midpoint while Estate Planning / Probate runs 6% below its own midpoint — a 18-point spread between the extremes.
Oregon's practice areas fan out more than most: its largest tracked median is 5.8x its smallest, against 5.1x for the typical state. Prices here are set matter by matter rather than by one statewide level.
2 of 7 matter types rank Oregon in the upper third, 0 in the lower, 5 between; estate planning / probate is 29th.
In percentile terms it sits at the 38th percentile of the 46 tracked states.
| Matter | Simple | Moderate | Complex | Hours | Rank | vs mid | Above |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Criminal Defense | $3,650 | $11,350 | $35,300 | 35 | 12th | +11% | Utah |
| Divorce | $3,000 | $8,850 | $21,600 | 28 | 25th | +4% | Texas |
| DUI / DWI | $3,800 | $7,950 | $17,400 | 27 | 20th | +7% | Michigan |
| Personal Injury | $1,500 | $5,500 | $15,700 | — | — | +6% | — |
| Immigration | $2,100 | $5,300 | $12,550 | 18 | 20th | +12% | Maine |
| Bankruptcy | $1,650 | $3,550 | $5,150 | 13 | 25th | −1% | Michigan |
| Real Estate Closing | $1,150 | $2,450 | $4,450 | 9 | 12th | +10% | Minnesota |
| Estate Planning / Probate | $600 | $1,950 | $6,750 | 7 | 29th | −6% | Indiana |
Simple tier. $600 ÷ $215 = about 3 hours — 4 fewer than the moderate tier's 7, and $1,350 less.
Work against price. $1,950 to $6,750 is a $4,800 step, mostly work: 11 more hours at $295 is $3,245, while moving to $375 across 18 hours adds $1,440. Work carries 69%.
Borrowing the wrong row. Budgeting from Wyoming ($1,900) lands $50 under Oregon; from Indiana ($1,950), $0 over; from the $2,075 table midpoint, $125 out.
Contested against simple. At Oregon's own recorded figures, $6,750 buys 11.3 matters at the $600 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 Oregoncourt'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.