AB Probate Forms
Show Table of ContentsThere are a number of province-specific forms you may need when going through the probate process.
General Forms
In Alberta, the Court of Queen's Bench handles probate and estate administration (see Court of Queen's Bench locations).
You can check with your local court for the forms they might prefer, and below you will find some of the more common AB forms:
- Application for Personal Representative Grant (Form GA 1) - Get the probate process started
- Inventory (Form GA 2) - Attach to Application the list of assets and debts
- Bond Waiver (Form GA 14) - Attach to Application if desired and not addressed by will
- Notice of Application (Form GA 3) - Send to heirs
- Affidavit of Service (Form GA 5) - Tell the court you delivered the required notices
- Notice to Creditors (Form GA 15) - Tell creditors you the estate is being settled
- Declaration of Publication (Form GA 16) - Tell the court you published the required notice
- Application to Pass Accounts (Form ACC 1) - Consider using the EstateExec Accounting Report
- Affidavit of Personal Representative (Form ACC 2) - Submit with ACC 1
- Final Accounting - Consider using the EstateExec Accounting Report
- Application to Informally Pass Accounts (Form ACC 10) - Skip formal accounting
Note that some of these forms supplied by AB require you to use a standalone PDF Reader, such as Adobe Acrobat, and will not function in the browser.
See AB Probate Forms for a more complete list of forms that may be required in certain situations, and find even more in Alberta Surrogate Rules Schedule 3. You can also purchase a complete package of Surrogate Forms and instructions from the Queen's Printer Bookstore.
See also CPLEA Guide for Starting Probate.
Small Estates
Small estates sometimes need only 1 specialized form or affidavit: see Small AB Estates.
Resealing
If the estate needs to probate real estate in another province, you may be able to reseal the original grant of probate rather than start from scratch in the secondary province: see Ancillary Probate & Resealing.
Additional Information
See also Overall Probate Process in AB.
In case you're interested, probate forms for other provinces can be found here: