The Florida probate engine
One intake routes the correct administration path, computes every creditor’s deadline, and assembles the court-ready filings — then the Opposing Counsel Pass™ cross-examines the matter before it ever reaches a judge.
Source-locked and deterministic, designed to support review before anything is filed. Use it self-help with optional licensed-attorney review — or run it attorney-supervised at your firm. We don’t file for you.
One intake, the correct path
A deterministic router reads the estate’s facts and selects the path Florida law actually requires — and it already knows the 2026 summary-administration change.
The standard court-supervised path — petition, letters, notice, inventory, claims, accounting, discharge. The default for larger or contested estates.
Fla. Stat. ch. 733
The faster small-estate path — with the 2026 $75k→$150k ceiling change routed by date, and the ambiguous band flagged, never guessed.
Fla. Stat. §§ 735.201–.206
The informal, clerk-level path when there is no real property and non-exempt personalty is within funeral plus last-60-day medical expenses.
Fla. Stat. § 735.301
For a non-resident decedent who owned Florida property — including the $50,000 testate short form.
Fla. Stat. § 734.102
The 2026 threshold change, handled correctly.
Chapter 2026-57 raises the summary-administration ceiling from $75,000 to $150,000 on July 1, 2026 — with no date-of-death transition clause. The engine routes by date and flags the ambiguous $75,001–$150,000 band for attorney decision instead of guessing. The parallel $20k / $5k / $2k small-estate ceilings move the same way.
The deadline lattice
Missed creditor notice is the single largest malpractice-exposure zone in Florida probate. The engine derives each creditor’s bar date from the facts — the three-month publication bar, the served-creditor clock, the objection window, and the absolute two-year repose — and refuses to let a matter walk into a premature discharge.
Reasonably ascertainable, served only by publication — not barred; alive until the 2-year repose (2028-08-15). Do not discharge.
Barred 3 months after first publication (2026-12-10).
Illustration. Dates computed from the matter’s facts.
No other probate tool dares do this
Every other AI tells you its draft is brilliant. Ours is under standing orders to tear its own filing apart — your own red team, acting as the other side of a Florida estate fight, on every matter.
The moment a filing is assembled, the engine switches sides. It reads the petition the way a will-contest challenger, an objecting creditor whose claim was never properly barred, or a shortchanged surviving spouse would — hunting the missed §733.212 objection window, the unserved creditor, the homestead devised away from a spouse, the underpaid elective share, the personal representative who can’t qualify.
Every objection it lands becomes a finding only your attorney can clear — approve, revise, or reject, on the record. Only resolved findings move forward into the file.
The first opposing counsel your filing ever meets works for you.
Petition for Discharge — assembled by the engine
“The personal representative has fully administered the estate and asks the Court to enter an order of discharge.”
Opposing Counsel Pass™ — finding
CriticalPremature discharge — an ascertainable creditor was never served.
Publication did not bar Memorial Hospital. This discharge is exactly the order the hospital’s lawyer moves to vacate — and the PR’s personal exposure (§733.2121(3)(a); §733.710).
One rule, enforced in software
Speed without supervision is malpractice bait. The probate engine is built the other way around: machine-speed assembly, with a licensed Florida attorney’s judgment as the only path to a filed document.
Court-ready filings — petition, oath, notices, inventory, accounting, discharge — assembled deterministically from a clause library and filled from your intake. The AI phrases the prose; it never invents the operative law. Every filing carries its governing statute and Probate Rule as a hook.
The moment a filing is assembled, the engine switches sides and reads it as a will-contest challenger, an objecting creditor, or a shortchanged spouse would — hunting the missed notice, the unserved creditor, the homestead trap, the underpaid elective share — and files every objection as a finding for your attorney to clear.
Nothing reaches a beneficiary until a licensed Florida attorney rules on it. The assessment, the deadline lattice, and every assembled filing land in one review surface with an Approve / Return decision on the record.
The engine assembles deterministic drafts hooked to Florida’s statutes and Probate Rules. Every output is draft work product for a licensed Florida attorney to review, complete, and file — the supervising attorney remains solely responsible for the final work product. EstateDraftFL is not a law firm and does not file documents.
EstateDraftFL runs Claude Opus 4.8 in a gated environment, fenced off from your legal language. Opus helps phrase your own facts into clean filings — but every statute, citation, and clause in your probate packet is fixed, source-locked text drawn from the official Florida statutes and Probate Rules, never generated by AI at request time. So your filings can’t cite a made-up statute or hallucinate the law the way generic AI tools can.
EstateDraftFL is Florida-only software, is not a law firm, and does not file documents. Florida statutory text is loaded verbatim and SHA-256 byte-verified against the official source; the deterministic engine assembles from that corpus, and the supervising attorney remains responsible for the filed work product.
Intake to discharge, on the record
Decedent, residency, assets, will, spouse, personal representative, creditors — answered one time, in minutes.
The engine selects formal, summary, disposition, or ancillary, applies the 2026 threshold by date, and computes every creditor's claim and repose clock.
The court-ready documents for that exact path are assembled from the clause library — each hooked to its governing Florida section.
The engine attacks its own filings and surfaces every contest, creditor, homestead, and elective-share vulnerability as an adjudicable finding.
A licensed Florida attorney approves or returns the packet; the engine blocks premature discharge until every reasonably ascertainable creditor is served or barred.
Answer one intake. See the correct administration path, the document set, the per-creditor deadline lattice, and exactly what an opposing party would attack — then route it to your Florida attorney.
Florida-only · Source-locked & deterministic · Optional attorney review · We prepare; you or your attorney files
It is software that organizes a Florida probate matter end to end: it determines which administration path fits the estate (formal, summary, disposition without administration, or ancillary), assembles the court-ready document set for that path, and tracks the statutory deadlines — then hands the packet to a licensed Florida attorney to review and file. EstateDraftFL is not a law firm and does not file documents; it organizes and routes. General information, not legal advice.
Formal administration is the standard, court-supervised process with an appointed personal representative. Summary administration is a faster option generally available when the estate's non-exempt assets fall under the statutory ceiling or the decedent died more than two years ago. The engine evaluates the facts and routes to the correct path.
Yes. Chapter 2026-57, Laws of Florida raises the summary-administration ceiling in §735.201 from $75,000 to $150,000 effective July 1, 2026 (and raises the parallel small-estate ceilings). Because the act has no date-of-death transition clause, the engine flags the ambiguous band for attorney decision rather than guessing. Confirm the controlling ceiling with a Florida attorney.
The engine computes each creditor's bar date from the facts — the three-month publication bar, the served-creditor clock, the personal representative's objection window, and the absolute two-year repose — and flags any reasonably ascertainable creditor who was served only by publication, because publication does not bar that creditor. Missed creditor notice is the single largest malpractice-exposure zone in Florida probate.
No. EstateDraftFL prepares an attorney-reviewable packet; a licensed Florida attorney reviews, completes, and files. The platform does not file and does not give legal advice.
General information, not legal advice. EstateDraftFL is Florida-only software, is not a law firm, and does not file documents or represent you. A licensed Florida attorney reviews and files every probate matter.