What are the Probate Court Forms?
Court forms are provided for your convenience. Some forms you may fill out on-line, however, the applicant still needs to print out the form, sign it and then submit it to Barnstable County Probate and Family Court.
If you are an executor of someone's will you may need a legal document called a 'grant of probate' to enable you to sort out the deceased person's affairs. If there is no will, a close relative can apply for a 'grant of letters of administration'.
Forms not available in Word
The selection of which word processing solution to use to fill out the form can cause inconsistencies. Even the selection of which printer to use to print the form can lead to results that are inconsistent and impractical to process. Users of completed forms (court staff, judges, parties, etc.) expect to see specific content in consistent locations on the form. When that content shifts as a result of printer and word processor anomalies, then the value of standardized forms is diminished. All of these forms can be printed as blank forms and filled in manually if required. All these forms can be saved to local electronic media in their blank state. Users are cautioned that when they pre-print a form for later use or save a copy of a form to local media, they need to make sure that the form has not changed since it was last printed or saved locally. It is the users responsibility to check the court's website for updated forms to avoid using obsolete and outdated forms.
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