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2026 cost estimates for estate planning / probate in Utah, including attorney fees, court costs, and other expenses.
As of June 29, 2026, a estate planning / probate in Utah costs on average $2,100, typically $1,050-$3,100 for a moderate-complexity case, based on sourced attorney-fee and court-cost data. Typical attorney rates run $185 to $365 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 | $350 | $650 | $1,100 | 1-2 weeks |
| Moderate | $1,050 | $2,100 | $3,100 | 2-6 weeks |
| Complex | $2,900 | $5,750 | $9,600 | 1-3 months |
Last verified: June 2026
$185 – $365/ hour
Median: $285/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 Utah. The recorded median total is $2,100, with reported quotes clustering between $1,050 and $3,100. Each statutory line below is sized against that median.
Added together the itemised lines come to $310–$925, which leaves roughly $1,175–$1,790 of the Utah median as professional time — the part that differs between quotes.
At $2,100, the median estate planning / probate cost in Utah runs 7% above the $1,954 national average across all 50 states and DC.
Utah carries 3 rows — simple, $350–$1,100 at $155–$285/hr over 1-2 weeks; moderate, $1,050–$3,100 at $185–$365/hr over 2-6 weeks; complex, $2,900–$9,600 at $260–$495/hr over 1-3 months — on 4 shared citations. They put it above the midpoint, short of the top quarter.
$2,100 is a median, not the middle of the band — $1,050 above the $1,050 floor, $1,000 under the $3,100 ceiling. Every rank below is out of 46.
At 22nd of 46, Utah sits above the midpoint of the estate planning / probate table: $25 more than the $2,075 median state, or 1%, with 21 states recording a higher median.
Nevada ($2,100) and Wisconsin ($2,100) bracket Utah inside a $0 window — narrow enough that 22nd is close to arbitrary.
11 tracked states — Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware among them — record a median within three percent of Utah's $2,100. 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.
Ranked by hourly rate instead of by total, Utah does not move: 22nd on both measures, at $285 an hour. Rate and total are telling the same story here.
| Rank | State | Median | Against Utah |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | Colorado | $2,150 | +$50 |
| 17 | Delaware | $2,150 | +$50 |
| 18 | Maine | $2,150 | +$50 |
| 19 | Virginia | $2,150 | +$50 |
| 20 | Maryland | $2,100 | −$0 |
| 21 | Nevada | $2,100 | −$0 |
| 22 | Utah | $2,100 | — |
| 23 | Wisconsin | $2,100 | −$0 |
| 24 | Georgia | $2,050 | −$50 |
| 25 | Ohio | $2,050 | −$50 |
| 26 | Minnesota | $2,000 | −$100 |
| 27 | Pennsylvania | $2,000 | −$100 |
| 28 | Indiana | $1,950 | −$150 |
Within ten percent of the Utah figure there are 13 states above and only 7 below. $0 up or $0 down moves Utah 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 Delaware, Maine, Virginia, Maryland, Nevada and adding $50 to the $2,100 recorded here.
Five places down means passing under Wisconsin, Georgia, Ohio, Minnesota, Pennsylvania: $100.
$500 short of Hawaii ($2,600), $750 clear of Alabama ($1,350).
The $2,100 median covers only about 7 hours at the $285 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 Utah is indistinguishable from the middle of the table at this precision.
Moving from a simple to a complex estate planning / probate multiplies the Utah total by 8.8, and almost all of that is hours rather than price: 3 hours at $210 becomes 16 hours at $365, so the workload grows 5.3x while the rate grows only 1.74x. Complexity here buys attorney time, not a premium hourly rate.
From $1,050 to $3,100 the moderate band is $2,050 wide, close to the $2,050 peer median. End to end that is 7 hours at $285.
Ranked by implied hours rather than money, Utah is 20th of 46 at 7 hours, where cost and rate also put it.
50% up the $1,050–$3,100 band sits the $2,075 table midpoint, buying 7 hours at $285 against the 7 the local estate planning / probate median implies — 0 hours apart.
| Measure | Utah | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Moderate median | $2,100 | 22nd |
| Hourly median | $285 | 22nd |
| Implied hours | 7 | 20th |
| Simple median | $650 | 21st |
| Complex median | $5,750 | 28th |
$285 an hour puts Utah between Pennsylvania ($285) and Arizona ($280) — not the estate planning / probate cost pairing.
Pennsylvania records the same $285: rate cannot separate them, totals do.
$2,100 buys 10 hours at $210, 7 at $285, 6 at $365.
| Rank | State | Median rate |
|---|---|---|
| 20 | Texas | $290 |
| 21 | Pennsylvania | $285 |
| 22 | Utah | $285 |
| 23 | Arizona | $280 |
| 24 | Wisconsin | $280 |
Ranked tier by tier, Utah slides 7 places downward: 21st at the simple tier, 22nd at moderate, 28th at complex. Its headline moderate position sits between the two extremes rather than summarising them.
$650 is 21st of 46 on a straightforward estate planning / probate, under Texas ($650) and over Vermont ($650), $25 over the $625 tier midpoint.
$5,750 is 28th of 46 once contested, between Georgia ($5,750) and Wisconsin ($5,750), $150 off the $5,900 tier midpoint.
The three bands are continuous in Utah: the simple tier reaches $1,100 where the moderate tier starts at $1,050, and the moderate tier reaches $3,100 where the complex tier starts at $2,900. A single quoted figure can therefore belong to two different tiers, and the tier label — not the number — is what identifies which.
| Tier | Utah | Rank | Tier midpoint | Implied hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| simple | $650 | 21st | $625 | 3 |
| moderate | $2,100 | 22nd | $2,075 | 7 |
| complex | $5,750 | 28th | $5,900 | 16 |
$650 puts Utah 21st of 46 on straightforward matters, 1 up on its moderate position, and $25 (4%) over the $625 tier midpoint.
3 implied hours at $210: 43% of the moderate tier's 7, over 1-2 weeks.
Texas ($650) and Vermont ($650) bracket it — a $0 window.
13 states record a simple-tier median within three percent of $650, denser than the 11 around the moderate row.
$5,750 drops Utah to 28th of 46 on contested matters, 6 below its moderate position and $150 (3%) under the $5,900 tier midpoint.
16 implied hours at $365: 229% of the moderate tier's 7, over 1-3 months.
Georgia ($5,750) and Wisconsin ($5,750) bracket it — a $0 window.
9 states sit within three percent of the $5,750 here, against 11 at the moderate row.
| Rank | State | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 19 | Rhode Island | $650 |
| 20 | Texas | $650 |
| 21 | Utah | $650 |
| 22 | Vermont | $650 |
| 23 | Washington | $650 |
| Rank | State | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 26 | Ohio | $5,800 |
| 27 | Georgia | $5,750 |
| 28 | Utah | $5,750 |
| 29 | Wisconsin | $5,750 |
| 30 | Wyoming | $5,700 |
Among the 8 matter types tracked in Utah, a estate planning / probate records the smallest median at $2,100, below Real Estate Closing on the line above.
The state does not rank uniformly. Utah is 11th of 46 for Criminal Defense but 28th for Bankruptcy, a 17-place spread across the matter types tracked here, so its 22nd on estate planning / probate says little about what the other lines cost.
The spread across practice areas is wide. Immigration runs 18% above its own midpoint, while Bankruptcy runs 7% below its own midpoint — 25 percentage points apart. A single "Utah is expensive" or "Utah is inexpensive" claim would be wrong for at least one of the matter types tracked here.
The largest tracked median in Utah is 5.4x the smallest, effectively the 5.1x that the typical state records: the internal spread is ordinary even where the levels are not.
3 of 8 matter types rank Utah in the upper third, 0 in the lower, 5 between; estate planning / probate is 22nd.
In percentile terms it sits at the 53th percentile of the 46 tracked states.
| Matter | Simple | Moderate | Complex | Hours | Rank | vs mid | Above |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Criminal Defense | $3,950 | $11,400 | $30,800 | 36 | 11th | +12% | Washington |
| Divorce | $3,200 | $9,500 | $22,900 | 30 | 19th | +11% | Michigan |
| DUI / DWI | $3,300 | $7,750 | $18,600 | 27 | 23rd | +4% | Texas |
| Immigration | $2,050 | $5,600 | $10,700 | 20 | 14th | +18% | Massachusetts |
| Personal Injury | $1,650 | $4,950 | $16,700 | — | 18th | −5% | Pennsylvania |
| Bankruptcy | $1,700 | $3,350 | $5,450 | 13 | 28th | −7% | Maine |
| Real Estate Closing | $1,150 | $2,400 | $5,050 | 9 | 17th | +8% | Delaware |
| Estate Planning / Probate | $650 | $2,100 | $5,750 | 7 | 22nd | +1% | Nevada |
Simple tier. $650 ÷ $210 = about 3 hours — 4 fewer than the moderate tier's 7, and $1,450 less.
Work against price. $2,100 to $5,750 is a $3,650 step, mostly work: 9 more hours at $285 is $2,565, while moving to $365 across 16 hours adds $1,280. Work carries 67%.
Borrowing the wrong row. Wisconsin ($2,100) is $0 light, Nevada ($2,100) is $0 heavy — but the $2,075 table midpoint is out by $25, 25x the neighbour error.
Contested against simple. At Utah's own recorded figures, $5,750 buys 8.8 matters at the $650 simple median — or, counted in time, 16 implied hours against 3, a factor of 5.3 — the two ratios differing because the rate rises with the tier.
Verified June 2026. Filing fees change on the Utahcourt'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.