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Probate in Coos County
Probate Court Record
Coos County Circuit Court
Coos County · 15th Judicial District
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Monday-Wednesday, Friday 8:00 AM-noon and 1:00 PM-5:00 PM; Thursday 8:00 AM-noon and 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
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250 North Baxter Street, Coquille, OR 97423
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Trust Administration Firms Serving Coos County
Coast Family Law provides personalized estate planning services to clients on the Oregon Coast, including Clatsop, Tillamook, and Lincoln counties. Services include wills, trusts, beneficiary designations, powers of attorney, and advance directives.
Newport Law provides thoughtful and dependable legal services for individuals and families on the Oregon Coast. The firm focuses on guiding clients through estate planning, estate administration, family law, and landlord-tenant matters with skill and sensitivity.
Zantello Law Group serves Lincoln County, Tillamook County, and the Oregon Coast with estate planning services. The firm has more than 100 years of combined experience helping clients with wills, trusts, probate, and estate administration.
Portland office of a national firm, serving Multnomah County and the Portland metro since Lane Powell combined with Ballard Spahr in January 2025. The Private Client Services team handles estate and trust administration, fiduciary accounting, estate and gift tax planning, family business governance, and related disputes. Suited to high-net-worth estates and closely held business interests.
Portland-based Pacific Northwest firm serving Multnomah County and clients across Oregon and Washington. Its tax and estate planning group handles wills, revocable living trusts, powers of attorney, advance directives, trust administration, and business succession for owners of closely held companies.
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Forms for Planning and Settling an Estate in Oregon
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Pour-Over Will
In Oregon, a pour-over will is signed before 2ORS 112.235Verified Oct 19, 2026View source witnesses and moves anything left outside the trust into it through probate.
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Tools for Planning and Settling an Estate in Oregon
Free calculators and checklists to plan or settle an estate in Oregon: will and trust costs, probate, executor pay and taxes. Run each tool for Oregon.
How Do I Settle a Trust?
Settling a trust in Oregon happens outside court: the trustee acts under the state's Uniform Trust CodeORS 130.001 et seq.Verified Oct 17, 2026View source, notifies the beneficiaries, then pays the debts and distributes under the trust's terms.
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What's Fair Trustee Compensation?
In Oregon, trustee compensation follows "reasonable compensation" (UTC § 708 or equivalent)ORS 130.635Verified Sep 18, 2026View source unless the trust instrument sets a different amount.
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How Do I Settle an Estate?
Settling an estate in Oregon: the personal representative files the estate inventory within 90 daysORS 113.165, ORS 113.175Verified Sep 15, 2026View source of appointment; creditors have 4 monthsORS §§ 113.155, 115.003, 115.005, 115.125Verified Oct 19, 2026View source to present claims; a simple estate closes in 4 months to 6 months.
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Do I Have to File Tax Returns for Someone Who Died?
Oregon requires a final state income tax return for the decedent alongside the federal Form 1040ORS 316.037Verified Sep 20, 2026View source; a federal estate tax return (Form 706) is required only for estates above $15,000,00026 USC 2001(c), 2010; P.L. 119-21 §70106Verified Sep 15, 2026View source.
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How Does Step-Up in Basis Work?
Inherited assets in Oregon take a basis reset to fair market value on the date of death26 USC § 1014Verified Sep 15, 2026View source, and the gain on a later sale faces ordinary income tax at the state's regular rates.
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