Probate in Boulder County

Probate Court Record

Boulder County Combined Court

Boulder County · 20th Judicial District

Hours

Monday-Friday 8:00 AM-4:00 PM

Office

1777 6th Street, Boulder, CO 80302

Filing in person

Walk-ins accepted

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Verified October 15, 2026 · Source

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Guardianship Firms Serving Boulder County

Serves Weld, Larimer, Boulder, and Adams counties from Greeley. Handles probate administration, will validation, asset inventories, debt settlement, and distribution to heirs, plus guardianships and conservatorships, and drafts wills, trusts, and powers of attorney, alongside family law. Owner Brynne Gant serves regularly as a court-appointed fiduciary.

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Serves Denver and Northern Colorado communities including Boulder, Fort Collins, and Greeley from Littleton. Handles informal and formal probate, from appointing a personal representative through inventory, creditor claims, distribution, and closing, plus will contests, guardianships, and conservatorships. A litigation-based practice since its founding in 1959.

Since 1959Serves 5 countiesEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationConservatorshipGuardianship+6

Serves Weld, Boulder, Larimer, and Adams counties from offices in Greeley and Erie. Represents personal representatives, heirs, beneficiaries, and interested parties in probate administration and probate disputes, and drafts wills, trusts, powers of attorney, and asset protection plans, alongside family law and criminal defense.

Since 1989Serves 4 countiesEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationGuardianshipAsset Protection+2

Serves La Plata and Denver counties from offices in Durango and Denver, with more than fifty years of practice in Colorado and the Four Corners region. Handles probate and trust administration, estate and trust litigation, guardianships and conservatorships, and estate, gift, and income tax advice. Also prepares Indian wills.

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Serves the Front Range from offices in Loveland and Lakewood. Handles adult conservatorship and guardianship proceedings, Medicaid and long-term care planning, and wills, revocable, special needs, and irrevocable Medicaid trusts. Andrew Stone established the firm in 2010 and has practiced elder law in Colorado since 2003.

Solo PracticeSince 2010Serves 2 countiesEstate PlanningElder LawTax PlanningConservatorshipGuardianship+3

Serves Colorado statewide from Steamboat Springs, including Northwest Colorado and the mountain resort communities. Handles probate and trust administration, guardianships and conservatorships, and drafts wills, trusts, powers of attorney, and gift plans. Offers a free initial consultation, including by telephone.

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Forms for Planning and Settling an Estate in Colorado

Free Colorado forms to plan or settle an estate: a will, trust, powers of attorney, TOD deed and the probate forms. Prepare each form for Colorado.

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Last Will and Testament

In Colorado, a will is signed before 2C.R.S. § 15-11-502Verified Oct 18, 2026View source witnesses, and a self-proving affidavit signed with it lets the court admit it without witness testimonyC.R.S. § 15-11-502Verified Oct 18, 2026View source.

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Healthcare Power of Attorney

Colorado allows a choice for a healthcare power of attorney: 2C.R.S. § 15-18-106 (no separate statutory form; execution requirements only)Verified Oct 15, 2026View source witnesses or a notary.

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Financial Power of Attorney

Colorado treats a power of attorney as durable by defaultC.R.S. § 15-14-705 (execution); § 15-14-704 (durability); § 15-14-706 (validity/choice of law); § 15-14-707 (choice of law); § 15-14-709 (springing); § 15-14-713 (agent acceptance); § 15-14-719-720 (third-party protections); § 15-14-724 (hot powers); § 15-14-741 (statutory form); § 15-14-742 (agent certification); § 38-30-123 (mandatory recording of POA used to convey real property); § 38-30-124 (acknowledgment of real-property POA, permissive); § 38-35-109(1) (race-notice recording); § 13-22-101 (age of majority 18)Verified Sep 18, 2026View source, and it is signed with no witness or notary requirementC.R.S. § 15-14-705 (execution); § 15-14-704 (durability); § 15-14-706 (validity/choice of law); § 15-14-707 (choice of law); § 15-14-709 (springing); § 15-14-713 (agent acceptance); § 15-14-719-720 (third-party protections); § 15-14-724 (hot powers); § 15-14-741 (statutory form); § 15-14-742 (agent certification); § 38-30-123 (mandatory recording of POA used to convey real property); § 38-30-124 (acknowledgment of real-property POA, permissive); § 38-35-109(1) (race-notice recording); § 13-22-101 (age of majority 18)Verified Sep 18, 2026View source.

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Revocable Living Trust

Create a revocable living trust to avoid probate, protect privacy, and control asset distribution.

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Free calculators and checklists to plan or settle an estate in Colorado: will and trust costs, probate, executor pay and taxes. Run each tool for Colorado.

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In Colorado, four years at a public university cost about $95,372NCES Digest of Education Statistics 2023, Table 330.20, public 4-year in-state tuition, fees, room and board, academic year 2022-23Verified Oct 17, 2026View source and the cost of living is near the U.S. averageBEA Regional Price Parities, all items, by state, 2024Verified Oct 17, 2026View source; no state estate or inheritance tax appliesNo Colorado estate or inheritance tax is payable. The Colorado Estate Tax Law (C.R.S. § 39-23.5-103) imposes a tax equal to the federal credit for state death taxes under IRC § 2011 (C.R.S. § 39-23.5-102(6)); that federal credit was eliminated, so the tax computes to $0 and no Colorado estate tax filing is required for deaths after December 31, 2004 — and independently, C.R.S. § 39-23.5-107(3) provides that "[n]o Colorado return need be filed if the gross estate or generation-skipping transfer does not require the filing of a federal return." The statute remains on the books rather than repealed — a "pick-up" tax that would revive if Congress restored the federal credit. Colorado replaced its 1927 inheritance tax with the estate tax in 1980 and has no inheritance tax.Verified Sep 15, 2026View source.

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What Does Estate Planning Actually Cost?

An attorney-prepared revocable trust in Colorado runs $3,390Estimate: 10 hours at $339, Clio's Colorado Trusts rate; Compare Lawyer Rates, 2025 dataVerified Oct 15, 2026View source to $5,085Estimate: 15 hours at $339, Clio's Colorado Trusts rate; Compare Lawyer Rates, 2025 dataVerified Oct 15, 2026View source and a simple will $1,044Estimate: 3 hours at $348, Clio's Colorado Wills and Estates rate; Compare Lawyer Rates, 2025 dataVerified Oct 15, 2026View source to $2,088Estimate: 6 hours at $348, Clio's Colorado Wills and Estates rate; Compare Lawyer Rates, 2025 dataVerified Oct 15, 2026View source, against $0 to $549 up front plus a subscription with an online service.

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Who Inherits Without a Will?

Without a will in Colorado, a surviving spouse takes the entire estateC.R.S. § 15-11-102Verified Oct 21, 2026View source when every child of either spouse is a child of both, and descendants divide what passes to them per capita at each generationC.R.S. §§ 15-11-103(3), 15-11-106Verified Oct 21, 2026View source.

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